ColdFusion Administrator Login

[lvance1611]

Hey everyone,

I'm running ColdFusion MX7 Developer edition on top of IIS on my local machine. I'm not sure what has happened, but I am not able to log into the CF Administrator on my local machine. When I go to http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm, I get the login screen. I type in my CF Administrator, and it comes right back to the same screen. Has anyone else seen this?

I've completely uninstalled, reinstalled, and updated ColdFusion on my machine, but nothing has changed. I have also checked my IIS settings for the CFIDE folder, and it looks like I remember it looking. I must be missing something.

I think this happened when I installed PHP and MySQL, but I can't be sure.
Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Lee.

[LL]

You could try running ColdFusion on the built-in web server.
Please see this livedoc for more info: http://livedocs.macromedia.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000016.htm
You will need to move your CFIDE directory from Inetpub\wwwroot (default web root) to CFusionMX7\wwwroot (default built-in web server root on ColdFusion MX7).

[lvance1611 · Accepted solution]

I actually figured it out late last night. It was my firewall. I think I came across this before and forgot, but so far, the only firewall that I have had problems with is Zone Alarm.

Thank you for responding, LL.

[RedThruViolet]

Ivance1611:
I am having the same problem, but I have PC-cillin, not ZoneAlarm.
I tried turning off the Firewall there, and using Windows Firewall, but I still could not get into the Administrator.
Would you let me know how you got around this problem?
Thank you,
RedthruViolet

[lvance1611]

Since I don't have to go into the console that often, I just turn off Zone Alarm until I am finished changing settings. There is a way to add it as a trusted site and give it complete access, but I haven't felt the need to do that at this point. Your firewall probably has a place where you can add websites and IP addresses as trusted sites.