CF and Apache - Warning version <unknown> is installed

[Guest]

I just installed 32bit ColdFusion(Windows 7 - 32bit/64bit) for Education from School.  The installation went fine, and I managed to install it on my Local IIS server (After enabling 32bit Apps in my configuration settings - system.applicationHost\applicationPools)

It works fine, and I can access the Administrator settings.

But I don't want to install it on IIS, I want to install it on Apache.  I have 32bit Xampp 1.8.0 for Windows 7 - 32bit/64bit.

(If you aren't familiar, Xampp is a Apache, MySql, Php, Tomcat, and Ftp package)

I ran ColdFusion's Server Configuration Tool to add ColdFusion to Apache,

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AppServer Host: localhost

AppServer Cluster:

Web Server: Apache

Configuration Directory: C:\xampp\apache\conf

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When I press Ok, I get the following warning message:

MessageBoxTitle: Warning:

Text: "Version <unknown> is installed. Supported versions are 2.0.43 or higher, if not Red Hat 8 or 9, or 2.0.40 or higher,

if Red Hat 8 or 9. 

Then,

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I'm guessing that this means that ColdFusion can't find the version of Apache?

Then, in the CommandLine-Style Output Box, I get a message that says:

[Mon Oct 29 14:55:53.117995 2012] [:crit] [pid 11232] (-2146173818) Unknown error:

AH00141: Could not initialize random number generator

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I have checked online for a couple of hours now, and can't find any information

about this error.

Any info would be great, or if you could point me towards where the error logs for this particular transaction

are stored, I might be able to figure it out.

[BKBK]

sjgillil wrote:

Windows 7 - 32bit/64bit

That is confusing. Is your Windows version 32bit or 64bit? Be aware that, even if you are on 64bit Windows, there could be 32bit applications that have modules that fail on 64bit.

[Guest]

It is 64 bit windows.

All of the programs I am using are 32 bit programs because they run faster and don't take up as much memory on my laptop.

[nimsharm]

Hi sjgillil,

Can you please provide CF version which you are using?

Regards,

Nimit

[BKBK]

I think I found the cause of the problem: the Apache version! XAMPP 1.8.0 ships with Apache 2.4.2. However, as you can see from the ColdFusion Support Matrix, even the latest version of ColdFusion, CF10, supports Apache only up to version 2.2.21.

[Guest]

Oh, that would do it. 

Okay, thanks a lot.

[BKBK]

You could install Apache, MySql and Ftp separately, next to ColdFusion 10.