ColdFusion 10 install fails on Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8

[bannock12]

I'm trying to install ColdFusion 10 on a Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.8 server with Apache 2.2.3. The install appears to complete with no errors. After some searching the web, I found I had to change the adobe connector shell script to use my directories instead of the bogus ones that were there. The httpd reports that the mod_jk is loaded (apachectl -M returns jk_module (shared) among other things). However, when I attempt to load a ColdFusion page, my web server says "503 Service Temporarily Unavailable". I've look in the log files for httpd and for ColdFusion and see nothing amiss, but I am new to this ColdFusion.

It appears my Apache httpd is not communicating with the ColdFusion process, which is listening on ports:

TCP *:8012

TCP localhost.localdomain:8007

TCP *:7995

TCP *:6085

TCP *:8575

TCP *:1243

Any suggestions?

Danial for bannock21

[pete_freitag]

It sounds like SELinux may be causing issue:  First check to see if you have SELinux in enforcing mode, if so you will need to run: 

setsebool httpd_can_network_connect=1 

To allow apache to make network connections to connect to the ColdFusion/Tomcat connector.  If that works your next result will probably be a 403 Forbidden, if so then you probably need to run chcon to allow apache to read / execute certain files, for example: 

chcon --reference=/etc/httpd/modules/mod_rewrite.so /opt/coldfusion10/ config/wsconfig/1/mod_jk.so

chcon --reference=/var/log/httpd/access_log /opt/coldfusion10/config/ wsconfig/1/mod_jk.log

chcon --reference=/var/log/httpd/access_log /opt/coldfusion10/config/ wsconfig/1/jk_shm

chcon -R --reference=/var/www /opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/wwwroot/CFIDE 

Finally if your webroot is not in /var/www you will also need to run this: 

chcon -R --reference=/var/www /your/web/root/

--

Pete Freitag

Foundeo Inc.

[bannock12]

I disabled SELinux already (one of the first things I did after the OS install).

Just to verify, I executed "setsebool httpd_can_network_connect=1" and got the result "setsebool:  SELinux is disabled."

I've also disabled the host-based firewall (iptables).

Any other suggestions out there?

-- Danial for bannock21

[bannock12]

Here are the entries in the mod_jk.log file:

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [error] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (448): socket() failed (errno=22)

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (1027): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:8012) (errno=22)

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1649): (cfusion) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=22)

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2629): (cfusion) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=1)

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [error] jk_open_socket::jk_connect.c (448): socket() failed (errno=22)

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [info] ajp_connect_to_endpoint::jk_ajp_common.c (1027): Failed opening socket to (127.0.0.1:8012) (errno=22)

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [error] ajp_send_request::jk_ajp_common.c (1649): (cfusion) connecting to backend failed. Tomcat is probably not started or is listening on the wrong port (errno=22)

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [info] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2629): (cfusion) sending request to tomcat failed (recoverable), because of error during request sending (attempt=2)

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [error] ajp_service::jk_ajp_common.c (2648): (cfusion) connecting to tomcat failed.

[Tue Oct 09 17:05:28 2012] [15754:47552417982912] [info] jk_handler::mod_jk.c (2725): Service error=-3 for worker=cfusion

How do I set Tomcat to listen on the correct port?

How do I check whether Tomcat is even running?

[NASA-CFSME]

I recently ran into this same issue when installing ColdFusion 10.  Here is the link that Adobe support gave me, and it fixed the issue.  I hope this helps if you haven't resolved your issue yet.

http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/rhel-connector-configuration.html