CF8 and IIS 7 on seperate boxes

[woodyard]

I'm trying to set up two servers - one CF 8 server and one IIS 7 server. What needs to be installed on the IIS 7 server so that I can run the web server configuration on the CF8 box and get them to start working together. Any help or URLs greatly appreciated.

[Charlie Arehart]

Running CF and the web server on separate boxes is called running CF in "distributed mode". You can find lots of discussions of it which may answer questions (and also help you ensure that it's something really worth doing). While some may have been written for CF 6 or 7, they'd still apply in CF8 (stuff for CF5 is likely too different to be useful for you). See, for instance:

http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/administration/cfmx_in_distributed_mode/

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=121a0b29

It's interesting: I tried to find reference to the feature in the CF docs, both "Configuring and Administering CF", and "Installing and Using CF". The former makes no mention of it, which surprised me, and the latter (sadly) says that it's covered in the former (but it's not). I even looked in the 8, 7, and 6 versions of these manuals. Very curious.

There are a few more technotes at Adobe.com that discuss it in the context of clustering, but you don't say you're doing that. Or are you?

Anyway, are you getting an error? Or just wondering what to look out for? Problems people have had in the past are firewall or other port blocking/conflict issues between the 2 servers.

[woodyard]

I'm using ColdFusion Enterprise 8.x, Windows Server 2008/IIS 7. In CF, I created an instance called "sabroad" that is running as a Windows service on port 8301. Using the IIS server that is installed on the same server as CF8, I am able to verify the new instance is up and functioning correctly.

I would like to set up an external server running IIS that will point to the "sabroad" instance on the CF8 server. In the future we will probably create other instances on the CF8 server, but our immediate need to is to get a vendor supplied CF app upi adn running with SSL access ( hence the need for a dedicated IIS server for that particular instance ). Several things aren't clear to me from reading around:

1) What software needs to be installed on the external IIS server to allow it to connect to the sabroad CF instance on the CF server?
2) What do you do to configure that software correctly?

I tried installing jre1.6.0._04 ( asme version as on CF* server ) then copying over the wsconfig.exe and running it, but got the following error: "no known VMs. Check for corrupt jvm.cfg file"

You're help is greatly appreciated - I'm really struggling with this.

[Charlie Arehart]

I'm afraid I have no answers for you. I was only pointing you to the few references I could find. It's not clear:are you saying you read them, and still have the questions? I've not read them. I would be surprised if your 2 questions weren't covered, even if the info is dated.

As for your error, a google of it finds a few entries, one of which suggests their problem (not related to running CF or the wsconfig) suggested that installing the JDK (rather than the JRE) solved that. The wsconfig launches a java applet. You'd think the JRE should be enough, but it seems worth the shot. Sorry I can't be more helpful.

The way these forums work is that you have to hope someone who's interested in the subject will open and read the messages. If not enough people are, you may not get much help, which is indeed a shame.

Sometimes you may have to resort to posting your question elsewhere, in the hopes of reaching a still wider audience. I list several such places in a category of my site: http://www.cf411.com/#cflists

[Newsgroup_User]

woodyard wrote:
> I'm using ColdFusion Enterprise 8.x, Windows Server 2008/IIS 7. In CF, I
> created an instance called "sabroad" that is running as a Windows service on
> port 8301. Using the IIS server that is installed on the same server as CF8, I
> am able to verify the new instance is up and functioning correctly.
>
> I would like to set up an external server running IIS that will point to the
> "sabroad" instance on the CF8 server. In the future we will probably create
> other instances on the CF8 server, but our immediate need to is to get a vendor
> supplied CF app upi adn running with SSL access ( hence the need for a
> dedicated IIS server for that particular instance ).

You do not need a dedicated IIS server just to get SSL running. You need
a dedicated IP address on your existing IIS to get SSL running.


> 1) What software needs to be installed on the external IIS server to allow it
> to connect to the sabroad CF instance on the CF server?
> 2) What do you do to configure that software correctly?
>
> I tried installing jre1.6.0._04 ( asme version as on CF* server ) then copying
> over the wsconfig.exe and running it, but got the following error: "no known
> VMs. Check for corrupt jvm.cfg file"

On your CF server look in the \JRun4\bin\ directory for a
wsconfig_jvm.config file.opy that to the other server and change the
java.home path and try again.

Jochem


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Jochem van Dieten
Adobe Community Expert for ColdFusion