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Marco Colombo
Marco Colombo
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December 22, 2023
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cf 2023 install on windows server, web server choose

  • December 22, 2023
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Hi,

I'm installing cf 2023 standard edition on a windows server.

I have installed apache web server.

At this link:

https://helpx.adobe.com/it/coldfusion/installing/installing-the-server-configuration.html

I found the installation steps.

 

How do I start this builder? because I downloaded the GUI version but when choosing the webserver it only shows me the build-in 

 

I hope I was clear

Many thanks

Marco

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    Charlie Arehart
    Charlie Arehart
    Community Expert
    December 22, 2023

    Marco, the doc you point to is for installing cf. As for configuring cf to connect to a web server, that has indeed required separate steps since cf2016 (whereas it used to be offered WITHIN the install of CF).

     

    And that process (and using the  wsconfig tool) is discussed in a separate document. While the doc has A LOT tonsay, I'm providing here a link to a section near the bottom which should be a good starting point for you, the section "Web server configuration", at:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/configuring-administering/web-server-management.html#Webserverconfiguration

     

    Finally, maybe this tool is the "builder" you refer to, but do beware, there is Adobe ColdFusion Builder, which is an IDE or editor. You should not refer to "builder" with regard to web server configuration, as some readers will be misled or may mislead you in their replies. 🙂

     

    Let us know if this gets you going. 

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
    Marco Colombo
    Marco ColomboAuthor
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    December 28, 2023

    Thanks  Charlie. 

    in fact the last time I installed cf on a server was the 2016 version. 🙂

     

    I have now configured (correctly I think) the connector with Apache 2.4.

    However, I have another problem: if I create an index.cfm page it is displayed as an html page and therefore a simple instruction is not executed (I assigned a value to a variable and made a cfoutput). I see the variable name #test#

    What could it depend on?

     

    Marco

    Charlie Arehart
    Charlie Arehart
    Community Expert
    December 28, 2023

    Well it sounds like the connector did NOT get "configured correctly ". 🙂  And you'll find this problem you refer to (cf pages not rendering) is discussed frequently in the cf community, regardless of whether one is using apache or iis, on windows or *nix. And there can be different causes. 

     

    So let's start with one simple question: w as you say you're on windows, when you ran the wsconfig tool, did you get a windows popup asking to confirm elevation to administrator? Or do you think were logged in AS the user called administrator? Sometimes problems are that your running of the tool can't modify the files in apache (or iis) or even cf (though since YOU installed cf you should have write permissions to the cf directory). As such, sometimes simply right-clicking the wsconfig tool to "run as admin" can solve problems. 

     

    Second, in your apache setup do you have multiple virtual hosts? Do you know in what file they're defined? Apache can be a rat's nest of config files, which are "included" off the main config file either explicitly or implicitly, which makes things all the more challenging. Sometimes the problem is that the config lines that cf wsconfig tool adds (connecting apache to cf) don't make it into the correct file.

     

    It doesn't help that deployment of apache on different OS's and/or different apache versions have different file and folder names.  Of course, you were asked in the tool to point to the starting location for apache configuration. Look at that folder you named: does its recently modified config file have lines related to cf? If so, does it have include lines pointing to still others?

     

    There's a doc from Adobe that discusses the steps that one could do to configure apache, if they did not use the tool. It's rather dated and incorrect (in its reference to CFIDE), and I've filed a bug report on that, but it still may help you some:

    https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-apache-manual-connector-configuration.html

     

    Let us know either way. There's much more I could say, but I don't want to overwhelm you or readers here. 

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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