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no administration page for coldfusion 8

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September 27, 2009
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Hello, I downloaded coldfusion 8 developer editionn, ran the download, followed the process, untill the very end,

the administration page dose not load.Something about the page can't load, no server. I had set it up as a local host 8500

I then tried to restrat the coldfusion 8 application server manualy, but it fails, error 1053, server did mot respone to request.

Not sure what to do next? I'm running windows xp with service pack 3, can anyone help?

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Correct answer Adam Cameron.

Hi ok! got that, now I'm getting another error,

unable to access jarfile C:/coldfusion8runtime\lib\wsconfig.jar

Not sure what that means. Should I start all over?

yayasworld wrote:
Hi ok! got that, now I'm getting another error,
unable to access jarfile C:/coldfusion8runtime\lib\wsconfig.jar
Not sure what that means. Should I start all over?

I suspect you have specified your CF dir somewhere as C:/coldfusion8 rather than C:\coldfusion8\. Because the path it should be looking in is C:\coldfusion8\runtime\lib\wsconfig.jar.

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Adam

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yayasworldAuthor

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Hello adam and BKBK,

The previous code must have worked, I logged on to the administrator and it finished the set-up of coldfusion.

Thanks for all the help!

Rose

BKBK

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The previous code must have worked, I logged on to the administrator and it finished the set-up of coldfusion.

That was the idea. Oh, and have fun!

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yayasworldAuthor

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Thank you, BKBK

One other small item, every time I restart my system, I have to load the coldfusion8 port code you gave me, is this normal.

I also notice that I have to manually start the Jrun JAR launcher file and then start coldfusion before coldfusion's

administrator will open. Again is that normal? I've managed to work around this, but can it or will it lead to some major problems

down the road.

Again Thank you for all your help.

ciao! Rose

BKBK

Community Expert

No idea. As things stand, you have nothing to lose. So here's a suggestion.

It could be that there are two competing installations on your machine. It could also be that, while installing, you chose the option that says you have a web server.

Delete the Coldfusion 8 installation, removing every folder. Alternatively, back up Coldfusion 8 and any older Coldfusion installations, for example, by renamimg the installation folder to something like _Coldfusion8. Restart Windows.

Re-install Coldfusion 8. While you do, choose the option to use the built-in web server. You could, if necessary, configure Coldfusion later to use another web server.

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yayasworldAuthor

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Thank's , but I still got the same result. Still no coldfusion

BKBK

Community Expert

This might be another example of a familiar issue in Windows XP, what I chose to call the Socks problem. By default, Coldfusion's wsconfig tool scans all ports in the range 2900-3000, thereby exceeding Windows XP SP's socks limit. That prevents Coldfusion from starting.

One solution is to run wsconfig with a reduced number of scanned ports. For example, do this on the command-line:

{Coldfusion_installation_dir}\runtime\jre\bin\java.exe -DWSConfig.PortScanStartPort=2930 -DWSConfig.PortScanCount=1 -jar {Coldfusion_installation_dir}\runtime\lib\wsconfig.jar

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yayasworldAuthor

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I have since tried to reinstall coldfusion 8 developer edition windows 370 something version, with the same results.

The final part of the installation had a note

installation complete, however the Adobe Coldfusion 8 service does not appear to be running,

the web server connectors did not install successfully and the web server and/or website could

not be reached on port 80.

Possible reasons include the adobe coldfusion 8 service failed to start,

the 2930 or 51800 ports are blocked or

the web server and/or website is not running or is not configured to listen on port 80( in which

case this is not an error.).

do the following

!) consult the installation guide about how to manually configure the web server connector.

2) ensure that any firewall, software blocking ports 2930 or 51800 is disabled.

3) ensure that the Adobe coldfusion 8 service is started.

4) manually configure your web server connectors.

5) ensure that your web server and website are started.

6) continue your instalation by logging into the configuration wizard at //localhost.8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

1) is to technical, and only has examples for earlyer versions of coldfsion.

2) checked my firewall, but not really sure what I'm looking for? Is there a list of ports?

3) tried to start the service under systems folder, but I got an error message error 1053, the service did not respond to the

start or control request in a timely fashion. What dose that mean?

4)how do you manually configure your web server connectors???

5) web server is on, website not sure what that means my website that I have yet to set up, or the default one coldfusion is

suppoes to set up??

6) logged on to said site and got site not found.

also tried the administrator in the program and got the same results.

This is very frustrating, If I had spent the 1200 hunderd dollars to purchase this program, I would have been very disappointed.

With that said, there has to be an easyer way of fixing this problem.

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