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Anonymous
June 7, 2008
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No IIS Option

  • June 7, 2008
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Hello,

Recently I've been plagued by intermitent CF crashes on our Win2K Server (I posted another entry about this.) To try and fix these crashes I decided to upgrade to CF 8.01 from CF 5. My problem is that the install program does not offer IIS as an option for a web server. It only displays Apache and Sun. I don't want to pick a server I don't have. Has anyone else had this problem?

Thanks.
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Anonymous
June 12, 2008
I re-created all of the DSN's that were originally Visual FoxPro using the method described above and provided by Ken. So far everything seems to be working and without errors. Thank you ken.
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Anonymous
June 11, 2008
HELP - I finally made the switch from internal CF web server to IIS using the web server config tool but now none of my websites come up.
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Anonymous
June 11, 2008
Gonzo and I were able to get his issues resolved. His last issue appeared to be the ODBC server crashing due to the use of foxpro odbc driver which is known not to be thread safe. We setup an oledb test connection using the jadozoom JDBC driver and MS's foxpro 9 ole provider. We also discussed the HXTT JDBC driver as another option.
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Anonymous
June 9, 2008
Disable CF5 before starting CF8. Review your CF5 install/config guide. Basically IIS is talking to CF thru a iscf.dll setup in the MMC console. Remove that setting and restart IIS. Stop the CF5 service.

CF8 can takeover as soon as it is running. However, you need to confirm your apps run before just switching to CF8. Again, I would recommend running CF8 with its internal webserver first. You can then run the "Code Analyzer" from cf8 admin to check your code. Then actually run your applications on CF8 to confirm they run. The install or admin guide will tell you how to change your webroot. You can move it to the IIS webroot to run your apps. Or you can copy your apps into the coldfusion\wwwroot.

Remember to convert your mappings as needed. Also do not forget you have CF5's CFIDE under the IIS webroot and CF8's under ColdFusion8/wwwroot. Do not mix them up.

It would not be surprising if you code requires some tweaking. You are upgrading 3 versions here.
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Anonymous
June 9, 2008
I didn't see the question on the last post. The response from Adobe is from "Tech Support" and not from anyone in particular. To add to the annoyance they sent the two-sentence response as a PDF attachment in the email.

That said, thank you for the info. I'm going to try this out tonight and I'll post my results. It sounds like a good idea and should give me a little wiggle room to test.
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Anonymous
June 10, 2008
I was successful with the install of CF 8 using its internal web server. I tested the admin and it works as well. I'm going to attempt to test some of the code now.
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Anonymous
June 9, 2008
Normally on a windows system ColdFusion would present an option to configure IIS. Did you install as administrator to the server? Try running coldfusion8\runtim\bin\wsconfig.exe. Do you get an option to configure for IIS? If not, could IIS already have been configured for a trial version of CF8 or CFMX7? If so, remove that configuration first - run wsconfig.exe from the earlier version of CF.
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Anonymous
June 9, 2008
Hello,

Thank you for your response.

I am installing as administrator. The only version I have on the server is CF 5. I searched and I don't even have the wsconfig.exe file anywhere on the server. Since CF 8 never gets to the actual copying part, I don't have the CF 8 folder. Can CF 5 be an issue?

G.
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Anonymous
June 9, 2008
ColdFusion8 should install on a server that has any other version of ColdFusion on it. The default directories are always named differently now. You should not be trying to install CF8 into the same directory as CF5. It should go to \ColdFusion8 or some other directory but not actually overwrite CF5.
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