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May 15, 2026 12:22 AM UTC
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Unable open administrator on new CF install windows 11

I have a new Windows 11 system and have just installed CF 2025 on it. At first the administrator opened properly, but today when I went back to do some more configuration, it refuses to open. Every time I try I get the same message … this site can’t be reached. The URL it is using is http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

 

I see the CF entry in services and it says it is running. I’m not an operating system guy so I really don’t know what to try next. I reinstalled CF but that didn’t fix it.

 

Would appreciate some advice on what to do next.

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    jpullamAuthor
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    May 23, 2026 2:43 PM UTC

    Sorry, I missed that reply.

     

    I got around the problem by reinstalling again and this time it worked. I assume that the error logs were replaced so of no value.

     

    As it happens, I’ll have to reinstall again, this time switching to IIS because I can’t get Tomcat to work.

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    BKBK
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    May 24, 2026 2:54 PM UTC

    Thanks for the update, ​@jpullam 

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    BKBK
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    May 23, 2026 12:02 PM UTC

    Hi ​@jpullam ,

    Has your problem been solved? The suggestion from ​@Ravi Shankar266617537wjh is handy. Did you try it?

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    Adobe Employee
    May 20, 2026 4:18 PM UTC

    Hello Jpullam,

    Please let us know if there are any errors in ColdFusion logs.

    Also, stop the ColdFusion Application Server Service

    Open Command prompt as administrator and start the ColdFusion instance using the cfstart command as mentioned below, and let us know if there are any exceptions in the output

    C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\bin>cfstart.bat

     

    Thanks & Regards

    Ravi

     

     

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