CF8 multi-server upgrade crashes SharePoint and SiteMinder

[DCwebGuy]

I started upgraded my CF7 Standard test box to CF8 Enterprise multi-sever. This same box had a production SharePoint server on it (I know, shame on me). The morning after I upgraded I started getting emails that users couldn't access their files. Indeed, all the SharePoint file links went to a 404. After googling a bit, there was just too much conflicting info to figure out what was wrong, but there was clearly a big problem with SharePoint after the CF upgrade.

After spending an hour in the phone with Microsoft support, they found that "C:\WINDOWS\Microsoft.NET\Framework\v2.0.50727\aspnet_isapi.dll" was missing from the "Wildcard application maps" menu under IIS Home Directory > Configuration. ColdFusion replaced that required .NET dll with this "C:\JRun4\lib\wsconfig\1\jrun_iis6_wildcard.dll". Now that wasn't very nice of CF was it?

It sounds odd, I know, but it's true. Perhaps I should not have told CF to configure ALL web sites under IIS, but you'd think it would not be so agressive as to remove a mapping. Anyway, hope this helps someone in the future, and maybe a kind Adobe engineer can confirm this and flag it as a bug.

[SafariTECH]

This doesn't really help your situation, but MS recommends that Sharepoint never be on a server with any other application server because most will inherintly interfere with each other.

[DCwebGuy]

It also crashed SiteMinder, a Single Sign On application that my agency puts in front of everything internal, like our intranet. Again, CF completely removed all wildcard application maps that were previously there, and stuck in its Jrun map. That should not be. It should leave the others alone.

[Newsgroup_User]

DCwebGuy wrote:
> It also crashed SiteMinder, a Single Sign On application that my application
> puts in front of everything internal, like our intranet. Again, CF completely
> removed all wildcard application maps that were previously there, and stuck in
> its Jrun map. That should not be. It should leave the others alone.
>

How would that work? How would one have one wild card mapped to two places?

[DCwebGuy]

Not sure I understand your question. But for each IIS site I run, if I go to the Home Directory tab, and click on the Configuration button, there is a "Wildcard application maps" window below the application extensions, and in the maps window there USED to be an entry for Netegrity ISAPI .dll file ("C:\Program Files\netegrity\webagent\bin\ISAPI6WebAgent.dll"), but ColdFusion replaced it with its Jrun .dll. I had to go back and manually add the Netegrity .dll, then move it above the Jrun .dll so it has order priority, and so now there are two application maps. One for Netegrity and one for Jrun. Everything runs fine after that.

This is exactly what I had to do with SharePoint yesterday, although in SharePoint's case I simply removed the Jrun .dll altogether since I won't be using CF with SharePoint. But I definitely use Netegrity/SiteMinder to protect several ColdFusion sites on that box.