500 Internal Server Error

[Realtoast]

After having installed Windows Vista (I know...I know...) and re-installing coldFusion, I am now unable to locate or open the administrator. If I follow the logical path:

http://localhost:8500/CfusionMX7/wwwroot/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm, I get a HTTP 500 Internal Server Error.

If I follow the path that the installation gave me ( http://localhost:8500/cfmx/CFIDE/administrator), nothing.

Obviously, I'm not doing something right. Any help would be appreciated.

If I haven't provided enough info, please let me know.

Thanks.

[BKBK]

And if you follow

http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm ?

[Realtoast]

Thanks for responding. This hasn't worked, either. I get this error:

"The website cannot display the page
HTTP 500
Most likely causes:
The website is under maintenance.
The website has a programming error.

What you can try:
Refresh the page.

Go back to the previous page.

More information

This error (HTTP 500 Internal Server Error) means that the website you are visiting had a server problem which prevented the webpage from displaying.

For more information about HTTP errors, see Help."

This is the same error I have been getting. I used all of the default settings during the install. Chose the JRun.. option.

Anyone seen this before? Any ideas? I will be glad to provide more details.

[Guest]

Stop the coldfusion application server service in services. Restart by opening a DOS window in cfusionmx7\bin and running cfstart.bat. You should see a message that the internal webserver started on port 8500. Do you? Do you see other errors?

[Realtoast]

Ken, thanks for your help. I followed your instructions, below, and received the following in the DOS window:

"Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 <Build 92909>, coldfusion server
05/20 18:04:05 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2920
05/20 18:04:06 warning No sessionSecret has been specified in jrun.xml. Installin a self generated sessionSecret.
05/20 18:04:07 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
05/20 18:04:08 warning Deployer Service failed to deploy file: /C:/CFusionMX7/
*Unrecognized deployment: file:/C:/CFusionMX7/
Server coldfusion ready (startup time: 8 seconds)"

Hope this means something to you. I am admittedly green here. Again, I followed the same all-default installation process that I had, successfuly, with XP on this same computer.

Thanks again for any help or solution you can provide.

[VATekMan]

I am dealing with the same problem as you. I have one advantage, I have multiple machines, some that I have CF working on and some that I do not... One of the big things that I noticed is that the ODBC services were not installed on the machine that I am having issues with. I have gone through all the documents, and finally got that installed and started ( Here is the link). That being said, I still have not resolved the issue. Have you resolved it? I have tried many times uninstalling CF, IIS, even .Net 1.1 and 2.0 with no luck. Since you have not posted on this thread in a while, have you found resolution? I would love to know what it was if you have.

On this same machine, I have installed CF in developer mode working with it's own web server and things came up without a problem. Thanks...

-Matt

[BKBK]

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[BKBK]

05/20 18:04:08 warning Deployer Service failed to deploy file: /C:/CFusionMX7/
*Unrecognized deployment: file:/C:/CFusionMX7/
It's just a warning, but looks bad. I suspect this has to do with the file C:\CFusionMX7\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\jrun.xml. I am assuming that you have installed Coldfusion in the default directory C:\CFusionMX7.

Examine the jrun.xml file. Verify that the element for the Deployer Service is:

<service class="jrun.deployment.DeployerService" name="DeployerService">
<attribute name="bindToJNDI">true</attribute>
<attribute name="hotDeploy">false</attribute>
<attribute name="temporaryDirectory">{jrun.server.rootdir}/SERVER-INF/temp</attribute>
<attribute name="persistXML">false</attribute>
<attribute name="validateXML">false</attribute>
<attribute name="file">{jrun.home}/..</attribute>
</service>

[VATekMan]

Thank you for the suggestion about the jrun.xml file, I did not think that it was the issue but I checked. The section that you mentioned is exactly the same as what I have. The reason that I did not think that it is a configuration file is that in one attempt I copied all the files from my c:\CFusionMX7 directory on a working installation to the computer I am having issues on, and that still did not work.

I think that something is not happening during the setup that is suppose to. I know that after the setup is run, I do not have the Coldfusion MX 7 ODBC Server and Agent service agent installed. I have reached the point where I am having to look at doing a fresh installation of Windows XP on this machine, because something is not working correctly and I have spent some much time trying different things on the installation hoping that something will work.

In my previous post, I did mention something odd, that when I did the installation with using the CF built in web server, it did install and working correctly. So it is just really not liking the IIS service. I have tried removing that and reinstalling that, along with the .Net 1.1 and 2.0.

On the CF built in web service, can virtual directories be created? I know that the way that my current machine is set up is that I have many virtual directories that point to the same code base, but the virtual directory is used to set certain variables that are client specific (i.e. if Directory path includes C1, then set ClientNumber = 4... and that changes a lot of settings for the application).

Thoughts? Suggestions? I really hate re-installing XP, but I have almost reach the end of the road.

-Matt