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jhankins
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May 24, 2009
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Coldfusion 8 Standard on RHEL 5 Apache Connector Fails to install

  • May 24, 2009
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I'm having a heck of a time getting Coldfusion 8 Standard installed on a newly provisioned RHEL 5 server.   I am installing as root.

On the initial start I get Coldfusion not started, will retry connector and then it counts down.

Contents of ConnectorInstall0.txt 

Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 108673)

os.name: Linux

os.version: 2.6.18-8.1.14.el5_HPTRAID

os.arch: i386

platform: intel-linux

Could not connect to any JRun/ColdFusion servers on host localhost.

Possible causes:

o Server not running

  -Start Macromedia JRun4 or ColdFusion 8 server

o Server running

  -JNDI listen port in jndi.properties blocked by TCP/IP filtering or firewall

   on server

  -host restriction in security.properties blocking communication with server

My apache_connector.sh file contains (I had to manually add as post installation, this file was not correct based on prompted install.
#!/bin/sh
#
# Configure the Apache connector.
#       -dir should be the *directory* which contains httpd.conf
#       -bin should be the path to the apache *executable*
#       -script should be the path to the script which is used to
#               start/stop apache
#
../../runtime/bin/wsconfig \
        -server coldfusion \
    -ws apache \
        -dir /etc/httpd/conf \
        -bin /usr/sbin/httpd \
        -script /etc/rc.d/init.d/httpd \
        -coldfusion
exit $#
I also notice that it doesn't update the httpd.conf file either. When I compared my other install that I'm migrating servers from, it updated the httpd.conf file with a number of items to include pointers to the wsconfig/1/ directory which is currently not populated on this machine.
Any help appreciated.  Kind of surprised this isn't well documented somewhere for such as standard and supported platform.
Jim

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jhankinsAuthor
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May 25, 2009

Ok, so I was in the process of moving to a new server, I had the advantage of having a working system to reference.  I had to manually build the apache connector script which was not a surprise as the docs spell that out.  What was not obvious is that I had to build my own wsconfig/1/ directory for it to include all the files including a ./libs directory within it  /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/libs/wsconfig/1/.libs 

My system did not have a /1/ directory created so I did this manually and populated the files.

I also had to manually fix update the httpd.conf file (which again I had from the other system to reference).

Royal Pain indeed but it was fixed this way.  Lesson learned.  I'm going to tarbal up that directory and save in case I need to recover from this again in the future.  Hopefully next time I'll be using Coldfusion 9 and hopefully they'll have drastically improved the installation on Linux.

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