CF9 Install --> 500 on Administrator

[Tami KB]

After reviewing the logs, I have an odd issue that I am stumped on.

Clean JRE and clean CF install on laptop

xp pro, IIS 5.1, Coldfusion 9 developer edition

Installs great, all IIS settings added .cfm, cfc, cfr, cfml, etc installed in IIS mappings.

Default Docs added index.cfm

Done this many many times on many other computers without a problem, but today on this computer, I get a 500 error when attempting to open administrator.

Logs all look fine too (server.log below).

What am I mssing? Any suggestions?

serverlog snippet:

"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:21",,"Starting logging..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:21",,"Starting license..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:22",,"Invalid ColdFusion 9 license."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:22",,"Invalid ColdFusion 9 license."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:22",,"Developer Edition enabled"
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:23",,"Starting crypto..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:23",,"Installed JSafe JCE provider: Version 3.6 RSA Security Inc. Crypto-J JCE Security Provider (implements RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4, RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5, HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512)"
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:23",,"Starting security..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:23",,"Starting scheduler..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:23",,"Starting WatchService..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:23",,"Starting debugging..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:23",,"Starting sql..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:23",,"Starting mail..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:24",,"Starting runtime..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:24",,"CORBA Configuration not enabled"
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:24",,"Starting cron..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:24",,"Starting registry..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:24",,"Starting client..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:26",,"Starting xmlrpc..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:27",,"Starting graphing..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:27",,"Starting verity..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:27",,"Starting solr..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:27",,"Starting archive..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:27",,"Starting document..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:27",,"Starting eventgateway..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:28",,"Starting FlexAssembler..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:28",,"Starting .NET..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:28",,"Starting Monitoring..."
"Information","main","09/15/11","18:32:28",,"ColdFusion started"

</endsnippet>

[Tami KB]

well, got beyond the error, but cf admin won't recognize the .cfm files even though they are set up in IIS properly.

I did look at coldfusion9\runtime\bin\jrun.exe and the jrun launcher is running. It sees the coldfusion, and admin processes running.

i am forgetting something very basic and I am having a complete brain dump over it --

Tami

[carl type3]

Hi Tami,

What about run:
Web Server Configuration Tool
AKA CF\runtime\bin\wsconfig.exe

Any configured web servers?

HTH, Carl.

[Tami KB]

@Carl,

Yep, I can see the server running fine 😐 I checked that earlier.

[carl type3]

Hi Tami,

Not  sure what is wrong then. What next perhaps make a hello.htm page then browse that. Rename it to hello.cfm and browse that. Check if webpage browsing works as such then if cfm page works. Let us know, might help to provide a solution to the administrator pages not working.

All the best with that, Carl.

[Tami KB]

Actually, tried that too. hello.html works fine. hello.cfm bonks. no CFM

files work, and yep, I can browse them well ....

I am considering a computer cleanoff and reinstall.

Tami Burke

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[BKBK]

Stop ColdFusion. Copy all the contents of c:\coldfusion9\wwwroot\ to c:\inetpub\wwwroot\. Restart ColdFusion. Browse to http://localhost:80/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

[Tami KB · Accepted solution]

Issue turned out to failling hard drive. New drive, Clean install == works great now