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Mihai Baboi
Mihai Baboi
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May 29, 2009
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Problem installing CF8 on Windows 7 x64

  • May 29, 2009
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Hello. I am trying to install ColdFusion 8.0.1 64 bit on the Windows 7 RC x64. I already had CF8 on Windows 7 beta 32 bit OS and it ran just fine. For some reason I can't seem to get CF installed. I'm guessing it's because of the fact that it's a 64 bit OS, but I don't understand why. The installation process works fine until I get to the step where I have to configure my web server. I am trying to install CF on an Apache server (which I have successfully done in the past). When I click on the Add  button, the JRE window pops up and freezes. Nothing happens when I click on the Browse button to point to the configuration directory or the bin directory. It won't even respond when I try to cancel out of the window. Any ideas are welcome right now, because I'm out. I don't know what to try. Thanks.

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ilssac
ilssac
Inspiring
May 29, 2009

I can offer only some vauge suggestions as you are definatly on the cutting edge here.

I know from some recent experience installing CF8 on the latest version of 64 bit Solaris and Apache that the GUI web server connector was not very cooperative.  A little bit of Google searching turned up plenty of step-by-step instructions on how the create the connections manually and they where not that difficult.  They even included instructions to manually compile the Apache connectors for our system.

If that little bit of code is giving you trouble, it is highly likey that you could just bypass it completely and ignore this issue.

HTH

Ian

Mihai Baboi
Mihai BaboiAuthor
Known Participant
May 30, 2009

I'm new to ColdFusion, I didn't even know that there was a way of doing this by code. I'll do some more research about this and see. Now that I think about it, if I can configure my PHP application server to work with Apache using only my httpd.conf I guess it;s the same for ColdFusion.

M
mack_
Participating Frequently
May 30, 2009

You'll need to setup 2 things:

- in httpd.conf you'll need to add the config entries to load the jrun

connector module (extract mod_jrun20.so from wsconfig.jar)

- in jrun.xml enable the JrunProxyService and make sure it's the same

port as the one in httpd.conf

Bafta

Mack

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