Cant get coldusion 8 working on a 2003 IIS box...

Report · Aug 23, 2008

I've been trying to get coldfusion 8 installed on our production 2003 IIS box.. but so far i havent had any luck...

Here is how i have done the setup so far..

I ran the installation, installing everything except the bottom check box (i forget what that one was called.. eds or rds etc)...

I have a custom install.. ie: the setup files are placed on d:\data\coldfusion.

The IIS instance is already created before hand.. which points to d:\data\inetpub\Instance01 I also set the instance in IIS to .net 2.0 etc...

In the installer when it asks about pointing to c:\inetpub, i change this to d:\data\inetpub\Instance01 and choose the Instance01 instance (not installing to all instances)..

It then says it will install everything including the ODBC service..

We have tcp/ip filtering on the nic, so i added port 51800 to the list.. we also have windows firewall on, i added this port here as well...

At the end it usually fails.. complaining about port 51800 not being open despite having it open.

If i try to open the admin page from http://instance01.domain.com/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm I get the usual page cannot be displayed error..

If i try to run D:\Data\ColdFusion8\runtime\jre\bin\javaw.exe manually.. at the end it says:

Could not connect to any JRun/ColdFusion servers on host localhost.
Possible causes:
o Server not running
-Start Macromedia JRun4 or ColdFusion 8 server
o Server running
-JNDI listen port in jndi.properties blocked by TCP/IP filtering or firewall
on server
-host restriction in security.properties blocking communication with server

This is the same error i get if i try to open the web configuration tool.. no jrun servers are listed.. it complains about none being found to make sure the coldfusion service is started.. which it is..

I also noticed the wildcard dll isnt listed in the config of the IIS instance (like it is on our development server).. i tried adding it here, with no luck..

I also noticed that extensions like CFM arent listed either.. i tried just adding this one and had no luck, though perhaps i should have added all of them then reran install?

I also noticed that under the Instance01, where CFIDE is located, that it doesnt show up with the application symbol as it does on our development server...

I'm new to coldfusion, just mainly an admin trying to get the install working so our developers web page can work..

Any thoughts on what i should do here to make this run?

Thanks in advance..

Report · Aug 25, 2008

I wish i could help, the installation was pretty straight forward on my 2003 box.

Do you get the error during the installation or after its done?

Report · Aug 25, 2008

Actually, i just found the solution.. it seems on our dedicated server, we had tcp/ip filtering on.. i had added port 51800 to the settings .. but the install would still fail..

So i turned off filtering altogether and it worked fine..

So i re-enabled the filtering, this time also adding port 8500.. not sure if this helped or not, but i can still access and use the admin pages.. still a bit puzzled on this one, but it is working now.