Skip to main content
MaterLuporum
MaterLuporum
Inspiring
June 1, 2011
Question

David Powers’ tutorial, “Setting up CF development environment for DW”

  • June 1, 2011
  • 1 reply
  • 655 views

I left this comment for Mr. Powers at the end of his tutorial and was advised to post here by the Moderator:

I had no problems until the very end:  can’t display the final page in Live View or in any browser.
 
One anomaly in the CF installation:  Adobe strongly advises running the CF 9.0.1 update [ http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/849/cpsid_84973.html ].  I ran this update after completing your installation procedure and before “Setting up in DW” for the Mac.  The “Update successfully installed” window included the following message:
 
“SolR server has been upgraded. Re-index all the collections.”
 
Having no idea what that meant, I proceeded to create the CF site in DW.  No variations from your text until Item #9, “Create a ColdFusion data source”:  my text box was labeled “Database FOLDER,” not “Database File” per your tutorial.  
 
Where did I go wrong?
 
Mac Pro Intel, OS 10.6.7, MAMP installed but not running at the time.

Can anyone here help me?

This topic has been closed for replies.

1 reply

ilssac
ilssac
Inspiring
June 3, 2011

WolfWB wrote:

Where did I go wrong?

Not nearly enough of the CORRECT information here to provide any sensible help.

Code snippet (small, but relevant sample code showing the problem.... not entire page dumps)

Description of expected results

Description of actual results, including error messages if relevant.

Description of why the actual results are not correct if it is not clear to the casual observer.

WolfWB wrote:

 

“SolR server has been upgraded. Re-index all the collections.”

SOLR is a text search engine that is included with ColdFusion to provide, you know, text searching capability.  When you upgraded to the newer version of CF, that included upgrades to the SOLR engine which would have invalidated any text search indexes previously created.  So you would need to re-index the text collections to recreate those indexes.

If none of that makes ANY sense to you, then you most likely have NO text Collections with NO indexes for those collections and thus have NOTHING to re-index so that message PROBABLY had NO relevance to any issues you are experiencing.

MaterLuporum
MaterLuporumAuthor
Inspiring
June 6, 2011

ilssac wrote:

WolfWB wrote:

Where did I go wrong?

Not nearly enough of the CORRECT information here to provide any sensible help.

Code snippet (small, but relevant sample code showing the problem.... not entire page dumps)

Description of expected results

Description of actual results, including error messages if relevant.

Description of why the actual results are not correct if it is not clear to the casual observer.

WolfWB wrote:

 

“SolR server has been upgraded. Re-index all the collections.”

SOLR is a text search engine that is included with ColdFusion to provide, you know, text searching capability.  When you upgraded to the newer version of CF, that included upgrades to the SOLR engine which would have invalidated any text search indexes previously created.  So you would need to re-index the text collections to recreate those indexes.

If none of that makes ANY sense to you, then you most likely have NO text Collections with NO indexes for those collections and thus have NOTHING to re-index so that message PROBABLY had NO relevance to any issues you are experiencing.

First, thank you for trying to help, ilssac!  I apologize for the frustration I caused, but this was my first encounter with CF;  I'd installed it purely to get through a Dreamweaver tutorial.  Second, I haven't a clue about where to collect a code snippet to send you.  Providing a link to the tutorial and pointing you to the very last instructions are the best I can do:  start at the subhead, "Create a ColdFusion data source," steps #1 through #13 and Figures #22 and #23.  The expected result is a correct DW Live View display of the HTML page populated with data drawn from a database (Fig. #23)  instead of the "dynamic text objects" (Fig. #22).

Regarding the SolR, you're undoubtedly right about nothing having been created in CF, ergo nothing to re-index.

FYI, the original CF installation was on my Mac Pro.  I did exactly the same installation -- in exactly the same way (per the tutorial) -- on my MacBook Pro, and got the same result.  The tutorial predates the 9.0.1 upgrade which looks to me, the absolute CF novice, like the source of the problem.  I'd still like to get it to work, if only to justify the time I've put in!

Terms & ConditionsAccessibility statement
Using the community Terms of use Privacy Cookie preferences Do not sell or share my personal information ad choicesAdChoices