CFMX intallation with Distributed mode

[cesarmejia]

Sorry to repost here but did a mistake in posting it at the getting started forum

Hi!

I've been reading for 4 days now live docs and have found that I could actually have CFMX 7.02 running on a machine and the IIS webserver on another and the DB on another one. So far so good. But when I was reading live doc:

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

I got really confused on the following line, actually the 1st. one!: Install ColdFusion MX on the application server. During installation, select the built-in (stand-alone) web server option.

Ok after I select the first choice ( not the one that tells you about the multiserver or the J2EE type! ) then it asks me to configure it for the IIS or ths stand alone one, but the stand alone warns me that it should be used

quote:
for development use only



so if my servers are going to be for production is ti ok to follow this option or should I use my IIS ?

The application servers (2X) have windows 2003 standard edition, with IIS6, and the web servers (2X) have the same configuration plus two load balancers and both application servers are behind 1 firewall, both with static IPs!

Oh yes last question, where should I put the SSL Certificate at the web servers or at the application ones? and how does I

quote:
talk

to the coldfusion server, meaning how do I call, lets say from the www.mysite.com/ the index.cfm page and how the myhtmlpage.html ?

thank you!

[Guest]

You only want to use the built-in JRun based web server for administrative functions and 1 or 2 user type situations.

You will need to install the web configuration tool on your web servers and built the connector so that it talks to your back end application servers.

Don't forget to put a copy of your source code on both sets of servers (and make sure the paths are the same).

SSL cert will live on your web server. If you want to encrypt the channel between your web server and app servers then you'll need to get setup for that. Not sure how that actually happens though.

[cesarmejia]

hi, thank you for your answer! I already install everything by the book but as soon as I run the connector via Command it tell me thta it has found a Jrun server coldfusion at 125.1.215.127:2920

Then it tells me the following: JRun server default cannot be found on host 125.1.215.127.
Confirm that JRun server 125.1.215.127 is started.

And then when I try to open from the webserver IP the coldfusion admin it tells me that

YOU ARE NOT AUTHORIZED TO VIEW TIHS PAGE
You do not have permissions to view this directory or page due to the access control list (ACL) that is configured for this resource on the Web Server

HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized Access is denied due to an ACL set on te requested resource.
Internet Information Services (IIS)

[Guest]

Did you verify that IIS configured the plugin as an authorized Web Service Extension?

Should have a Macromedia Server Extensions listed and it should cover one or more files in ..jrun4\lib\wsconfig

[cesarmejia]

Could not verufy it since we decided to format C: everything and reinstalled it without firewalls and everything else, could you please just check the following: should I installed it with J2EE or just as the manual says, built in web server? and should I installed the JRun 4 server as a separate server or just use the built in Jrun for ColdFusion? Because this last configuration told me last time I did so that it had found the built in Jrun ColdFusion Jrun app but not the default Jrun and that I should check on it too, Thank you very much!

Best Regards, Cesar Mejia

[cesarmejia · Accepted solution]

Auto did it! lolololol

just follow this TechNote really carefully:

http://kb.adobe.com/selfservice/viewContent.do?externalId=121a0b29&sliceId=2