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May 17, 2012
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Coldfusion installer succeeds, but with no /bin/ directory

  • May 17, 2012
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I've just tried reinstalling a CF9 server, but the installer finishes with "11 NonFatalErrors", and there is no/cf-root/bin directory.

This means I can't run /cf-root/bin/coldfusion start so I can't run the server. I've tried installing it twice and had no luck.

I installed as root from /opt/, to /opt/coldfusion9, using the ColdFusion_9_WWE_linux64.binfile downloaded from Adobe today, and with permissions set to 777 on the file.

The /cf-root/coldfusion9 folder is missing other directories as well, for example there is no logsdirectory. There also seems to be coldfusion and cfinfo files in the cf-root folder, these look like they should be in the bin folder.

So I have the following:

/cf-root/coldfusion9/coldfusion 
/cf-root/coldfusion9/cfinfo 
/cf-root/coldfusion9/cfstat

Instead of

/cf-root/coldfusion9/bin/coldfusion 
/cf-root/coldfusion9/bin/cfinfo 
/cf-root/coldfusion9/bin/cfstat

I'm sure I need to post more data here if anyone's going to help but I'm not sure where to look next.

I'm running Red Hat Enterprise Linux Server release 5.6 (Tikanga)

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Ok, the problem seems to be to do with the fact the on my server, the /tmp folder was not executable. I also had issues with the /tmp folder running out of space.

This blog post suggested using a different temporary folder for running the installation: http://www.caxiamgroup.com/blog/web-development/changing-coldfusion-temporary-install-directory/#comment-13992

That seemed to fix the problem. I would hazard a guess that that may have solved the initial 9.0.1 problem, but I'm not going to test that theory until I've got a seperate test server running redhat to try it on.

The actual code that fixed the problem for me:

    mkdir /root/cf9_install

    export IATEMPDIR=/root/cf9_install

Also thanks to Andy Allan from Fuzzy Orange for his help getting to this conclusion.

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Comcar TechAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
May 17, 2012

Ok, the problem seems to be to do with the fact the on my server, the /tmp folder was not executable. I also had issues with the /tmp folder running out of space.

This blog post suggested using a different temporary folder for running the installation: http://www.caxiamgroup.com/blog/web-development/changing-coldfusion-temporary-install-directory/#comment-13992

That seemed to fix the problem. I would hazard a guess that that may have solved the initial 9.0.1 problem, but I'm not going to test that theory until I've got a seperate test server running redhat to try it on.

The actual code that fixed the problem for me:

    mkdir /root/cf9_install

    export IATEMPDIR=/root/cf9_install

Also thanks to Andy Allan from Fuzzy Orange for his help getting to this conclusion.

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