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Trying to get Coldfusion up and running

Forum|Forum|17 years ago
July 6, 2008
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I bought CF8. I installed it and couldn't get through page 18 of Ben Forta's book volume 1.
I couldn't get the URL prefix test was successful popup message.

I had originally installed CF8 connected to Apache web server. I had no luck. I then uninstalled CF8
and reinstalled it using the built in server. Then I got the URL prefix test was successful popup message.
Then I was in Dreamweaver CS3 and was chose a file and created the index.cfm file and everything was fine
and then I tried to get to the administrator and I opened CF8 and got JRun (different from when I first installed CF8) and so this was weird. Then I looked in the CF8 folder and there were only 3 folders when before (the first time)
there were many folders. It seems that CF8 is gone and it is reverting to JRun.

How do I get CF8 working. i tried called Adob today (sunday) and they didn't answer their phone.
Better yet, I'm in Silicon Valley, in San Carlos, and I'm absolutey perplexed that this is so complicated.

What are the steps to rectify this. What did I do wrong. i followed Ben Forta's book to a t and the
bought the white books for Installing and Using Coldfusion. I just want to write code and I can't
even install the CF following the directions exactly.

Blake

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Hello world 21-Jul-08

//It worked. THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU
THANK YOU KSMITH and Kronin555 you're getting a christmas card.
Blake

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nauta

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I have an 8.0 serial number, will that work on the trial version?

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Also, you should be able to register at the Adobe support portal and get free installation support via email. You create your own registration using your email and password of your choosing. www.adobe.com/support -> search on portal.

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I will try it right now. And I thought (previously) that becoming
one with vi was hard. This has been gut wrenching. I sure hope
it works.
Thanks in advance.
Blake

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Thanks Kronin555!. Blake, let us know your results.

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Don't install the updater. Download the full 8.0.1 installer. Delete your /Applications/Coldfusion8 folder and reinstall.

You need to use 8.0.1 if you're on Leopard, plain and simple. Don't use the updater, use the full 8.0.1 installer.

None of this is described in your books because Leopard wasn't out when those books were written. It wasn't out when CF 8 came out, which is why it wasn't supported. It's why you need the 8.0.1 installer in order to get this working.

Trust me, I have CF 8.0.1 running on my Macbook Pro, OS X 10.5.4, perfectly fine. Uninstall what you've installed already and start with the full 8.0.1 installer (downloaded from adobe.com).

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=coldfusion

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quote:

Originally posted by: Kronin555
Don't install the updater. Download the full 8.0.1 installer. Delete your /Applications/Coldfusion8 folder and reinstall.

You need to use 8.0.1 if you're on Leopard, plain and simple. Don't use the updater, use the full 8.0.1 installer.

None of this is described in your books because Leopard wasn't out when those books were written. It wasn't out when CF 8 came out, which is why it wasn't supported. It's why you need the 8.0.1 installer in order to get this working.

Trust me, I have CF 8.0.1 running on my Macbook Pro, OS X 10.5.4, perfectly fine. Uninstall what you've installed already and start with the full 8.0.1 installer (downloaded from adobe.com).

http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/tdrc/index.cfm?product=coldfusion

I tried this, however no luck. First the 32bit CF version said I had a 64 bit Apache and could not go on. Then I downloaded the CF 64 bit and this said I did not have a 64 bit OS (Mac Book Pro OSX).

Any suggestions??

Thanks

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Found my answer:
http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=kb403277#_Toc193176426

works fine now :-)

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When I was installing the 8.0.1 update the CF installer
couldn't find my CFIDE folder and it wasn't in wwwroot. I found
it in an updater folder and moved it to the wwwroot folder and then
the installer proceeded with the installation of the upate.

When I type in http://localhost I get apache but when
I try to type in the url for the cf administrator I get a message
for opening a binary file for index.cfm.

I don't get anything described in my 10 lbs of white books on CF
nor from the three blue Ben Forta books. Nobody from the CF
user group where we met at Adobe in SF the other day knew why
it wans't working, but my computer was still at Apple (at that point)
getting a new hard drive installed so I couldn't bring my laptop
to the meeting. I called Adobe and I was on hold for 2 hours and
bounced around India and neve ended up talking to a single soul
that knew anything about CF whatsoever.

Blake Southwood
Founder of flowersandbees.com and fourcheetahs.com

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I tried it. Didn't work.
copy of my log files.

http://www.flowersandbees.com/messagesincflog.html

I put it on the web because I got error messages when I tried
to add it here as attached code.

Blake

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I'm also unable to "reach" the CF Administrator
If I put in the url ... http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm
the CF Administrator doesn't come up.

I reinstalled CF8 yet a third time and the familiar CF shows up and the CF folder
has everything that it did the first time and I chose (once again) the built in web server
but in Dreamweaver CS3 I can't run any CF code. On the right hand side of DW it says
Create a Site for this file and I click on it and then I can't successfully test that the path url is right
and I can't get any further. I'm using a MacBook Pro with an Intel inside and OS X 10.5.3, CF8,
MySQL 5 (still can't connect to that) and Dreamweaver CS3.

So the GUI interface doesn't seem to be helpling me get off the ground.

One of the messages that I got mentioned that the JRunner wasn't running.

Why is this so confusing?
It should be so straight forward, it's 2008.

Blake

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Blake,
Sorry you are having issues trying to get up and running with ColdFusion. I would recommend you work through your issues one at a time. I would not keep installing and uninstalling. If you continue to have installation issues, start by reviewing coldfusion8/adobe_coldfusion_8_installlog.log. Let us know what errors are there and lets fix the installation if there are still issues there. Also, review coldfusion8/logs/cfserver.log for errors as coldfusion tries to startup. Confirm the port that coldfusion indicates it is starting on (8500 is the default, although it could increment if 8500 is busy) in the cfserver.log.

What version of apache are you running? If you are trying to install the Apache connector and are having problems, try running the coldfusion8/bin/connectors/apache_connector.sh script. First review the script and confirm the defaults for the configuration, script and binary are correct. Edit if required. If you run into errors, let us know exactly what they are. There is also the coldfusion8/runtime\lib/wsconfig/wsconfig.log which should contain errors occuring during the connector installation procedure. You can also run thel connector installation procedure from teh commandline with or without the GUI per http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=webservmgmt_5.html.

Finally, if you are continuing to have issues connecting to mysql, give us the details. What version and what error do you get. Even if the datasource shows you are not connected try running a cfquery with just "select * from foo" in it. The resulting error may give you much more detail as to your connect problem versus what appears in the cfadministrator.

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