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Anonymous
November 14, 2006
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MX7 Install Help Please

  • November 14, 2006
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I have installed ColdFusion MX7 Enterprise on my Fedora Core 4 (Plesk 😎 Unix Server. It is installed to the deafult directory /opt/coldfusionmx7/ and the installation went well.

To access my administrator panel I was told to go to the following http://72.35.76.29:8500/CFIDE/administrator/login.cfm where the ip address is my server address. I was also told to try http://72.35.76.29/CFIDE/administrator/login.cfm without the port as the port number was only needed for a debian install which is not my case, I was a Unix install on Fedora Core 4.

As you can see the adminstrator panel does not come up. I don't know how to access the panel and need help, I've tried everything.

I have configured plesk, it see's Coldfusion and works however there is no way for me to access the administrator panel which in turn doesn't help me much. Please help..... what do I do?????

Todd Warne
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Correct answer TJMUSH
Try accessing http://servername:8500/cfide/administrator/index.cfm. I think by default plesk doesn't modify the httpd.conf to add index.cfm as the default file for the directory.

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Anonymous
November 16, 2006
Todd,

First of all, check where your CFIDE directory is right now. If you picked Apache during the installation then it won't be under your /opt/coldfusionmx7/wwwroot. Most likely it should in your default Apache web root. You are right, if you installed with external web server then, you definately cannot use 8500 port unless you changed configuration after the installation (which does not look like you did). Also try executing any other cfm page. Just do something simple like
<cfset var=5>
<cfoutput>#var#</cfoutput>
Put it in your Apache web root and run it from your browser.
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Anonymous
November 16, 2006
I went into Plesk and enabled COLDFUSION on my domain valleyconcierge.org.

I made a test.cfm page with the string you gave me. The link is as followed:
http://www.valleyconcierge.org/test.cfm

Something tells me that is not the output I want to see????

{\rtf1\ansi\ansicpg1252\deff0\deflang1033{\fonttbl{\f0\fswiss\fcharset0 Arial;}} {\*\generator Msftedit 5.41.15.1507;}\viewkind4\uc1\pard\f0\fs20 \par 5\par }

So now what does this mean? Coldfusion says it is running and Plesk finds it perfectly however cfm pages come out funny and I cannot access the administrator. I know for a fact when I installed Coldfusion using YUM for Linux in the SSH I put external web server. I DO NOT remember it asking my which one such as Apache, the installation just finished and that was it. Thank you for your time with this so far!

Todd
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TJMUSHCorrect answer
Participant
November 25, 2006
Try accessing http://servername:8500/cfide/administrator/index.cfm. I think by default plesk doesn't modify the httpd.conf to add index.cfm as the default file for the directory.
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Anonymous
November 15, 2006
First, look for ColdFusion installation log file in /opt/coldfusionmx7/ directory. On the top of the file it should say if there were any errors during installation. Second, during the installation, did you pick an external web server or you just used built-in one? Port 8500 is being used by ColdFusion built-in web server, and I tried the URL and it does not look like there is anything running on that port right now. I tried without it, and got Page cannot be found. But if you have not installed ColdFusion with external web server, you can't expect your Administrator be available there anyways.
Have you tried any other cfm page besides Administrator?
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Anonymous
November 15, 2006
My installation looks good, I have all successful and 1 warning which is with the c++ compatibility pack (I've been told this is normal?). I have attached the log for your viewing.

My server has Apache so I was told NOT to install the internal web server but the external web server. I would pressume this is correct? If not that would be my mistake!

Secondly when you install an internal webserver it looks for files in the /opt/coldfusionmx7/wwwroot/ Directory which would be the default http://localhost:8500/ correct?

So if I have an EXTERNAL webserver (perl-Apache-ASP-2.59-fc4.build80060613.20) and I am on Fedora Core 4 (Linux) . So what is my default directory now? From what I can see if you just go to my http://ipaddress it is the directory for the following on my server. /var/www/vhosts/default/htdocs

I thought I heard someone say I had to move my CFIDE directory???? Where to? I appreciate the help and your anticipated response as I would like to get this up and running (it was a rather very expensive software piece ha-ha)!

Todd Warne
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