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March 26, 2008
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  • March 26, 2008
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I have just download the installer for Coldfusion 8. I am running a intel.
The install completes and I get a message that reads:

You have successfully completed the first step in installing Adobe Coldfusion 8
Howver, the ColFusion 8 service does not appear to be running, the web connectors did not install successfully, and the webserver and/or website could not be reach on port 80. Possible reasons include the Adobe Coldfusion 8 service 8 failed to satrt, the 2930 or 51800 ports are blocked, or the web server and or website is not running or not configured to liten on port 80 (in which case this is not an error).

Do the following to complete the installation:
1) Consult the installation guide abbout how to manually configure the web server connector. Where is this guide?
2) Ensure that any firewall software blocking ports 2930 or 51800 is disabled. Howw do I do this?
3) Ensure the Coldfusion 8 Service is started? I think I have done this but now info on doing this?
4) Manually Configure your web server connectors? Come on guys I am a developer I dont know how to do this?
5) Ensure that your web server and websites are started?
6) continuse your installation by logging into the configuration wizard at http://localhost:80/CFIDE/administration/index.cfm? I get an error message and safari download the page to my desktop?

I have got to say that the documentation with this trial is very poor and uncharacteristic of adobe. Adobe have a huge base in graphic designers that want to be involved in the web and you do this to them? Hopefully someone can point me in the correct direction. I have also tried to install it at home on my PC using iis7 and had no joy either!! very little documentation available again. I have called the technical helpline that told me if I buy the software I will get support? I want to run the trial to see if I want to buy it? v frustrating
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Participating Frequently
March 26, 2008
I am really sorry to hear that you have issues on different boxes.

What about this one.

http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/Part_1_Installing_1.html

Participant
March 26, 2008
Hi Oğuz,

I am running it on a intel mac at work which display the error mesages I have here. I am not running a firewall at work on my machine

But also at home I have a PC with vista and iis 7 and I am getting errors there too.

Where is the installation guide can I get a copy of that somewhere?

Thanks


Inspiring
March 26, 2008
Daniel,

I've just upgraded to an intel mac book pro and spent the last 2 days hassling over this issue. I found that I had to start ColdFusion from a terminal window on my mac. It's a pain and I'm not sure it all works just yet. I can't get CF Launcher to start and stop the CF8.
Once I started CF from the terminal window I was able to log into my CF Adminstrator just fine.

Here's what I did...
Install CF8 (standalone server/developer edition...)
Opened 'terminal' from the applications/utilities folder
In the terminal window I entered

sudo /Applications/Coldfusion8/bin/coldfusion start

It asked me for a password and started CF8
Then, I go to the browser and type in the URL from the error message
http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm
And it allows me to log in...

Can anyone here tell me if this is the correct procedure until there is a fix for this?


Here are some older blog posts that helped me out.
http://blog.daemon.com.au/go/blog-post/how-to-install-coldfusion-8-on-leopard-osx
http://www.scottpinkston.org/blog/index.cfm/2007/10/29/ColdFusion-8-on-Leopard-with-Apache--an-answer-for-the-rest-of-us

In addition, I found some info on the MySQL stuff as well that was important here:
http://angry-fly.com/index.cfm/2008/1/30/Getting-MySQL-Preference-Pane-To-Work-In-Leopard
In a post by "lars" near the bottom of the page there is a link to the preference pane fix for Leopard...
Participating Frequently
March 26, 2008
I think you have a firewall etc. which prevents the ColdFusion talking with your webserver.

By the way are you using IIS for first try? On which OS?

Sorry to let you know but we have tons of servers with CF8 without any problem. :)