ColdFusion 10 install on RHEL 6.1

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Hi,Has anyone been able to successfully install ColdFusion 10 on Red Hat Enterprise 6.1?I have been trying to get it to work, but when I try to load the CF administrator after the installation I get an apache/tomcat error.http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfmexceptionjavax.servlet.ServletException: java.lang.NullPointerException          coldfusion.bootstrap.ClassloaderHelper.initServletClass(ClassloaderHelper.java:129)          coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.init(BootstrapServlet.java:59)          org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)          org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)          org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:928)          org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:414)          org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:987)          org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:539)          org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:298)          java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)          java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)          java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)root causejava.lang.NullPointerException          coldfusion.CfmServlet.init(CfmServlet.java:82)          coldfusion.bootstrap.ClassloaderHelper.initServletClass(ClassloaderHelper.java:121)          coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.init(BootstrapServlet.java:59)          org.apache.catalina.authenticator.AuthenticatorBase.invoke(AuthenticatorBase.java:472)          org.apache.catalina.valves.ErrorReportValve.invoke(ErrorReportValve.java:98)          org.apache.catalina.valves.AccessLogValve.invoke(AccessLogValve.java:928)          org.apache.catalina.connector.CoyoteAdapter.service(CoyoteAdapter.java:414)          org.apache.coyote.http11.AbstractHttp11Processor.process(AbstractHttp11Processor.java:987)          org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$AbstractConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:539)          org.apache.tomcat.util.net.JIoEndpoint$SocketProcessor.run(JIoEndpoint.java:298)          java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)          java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)          java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)Any suggestions?Thanks,Simon

rupesh_kumar · Accepted Answer

Hi Simon,The license service makes use of InetAddress.getLocalHost() API and therefore your /etc/hosts file should have an entry for both localhost as well as for your host name.Your /etc/hosts file should look like # This is an example of the hosts file127.0.0.1 localhost ::1 localhost127.0.0.1 LMCFXD01Once you have the hosts file corrected, you should be all set.Check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hosts_(file)Regards,Rupesh

raZorTTZ · Answer

I'm not sure if this will help. This is the content of coldfusion-error.log from the first time the CF service tried to start

I can browse directories and HTML files using the builtin web server, but as soon as it's a .cfm page I get an error. It didn't work using apache as the web server either so I suspect there is something wrong with tomcat / CF or some permission problem somewhere.

When installing CF on RHEL I put SELinux into passive mode and also created a link to libc.so.6 so the warning when starting the CF installer disappeared.

As an extra test I setup coldfusion to use the nobody user and also root just to see if it would make a difference.

Hope somebody can help.

Simon

May 17, 2012 11:24:23 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init

INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: /opt/coldfusion10/jre/lib/amd64/server:/opt/coldfusion10/jre/lib/amd64:/opt/coldfusion10/jre/../lib/amd64:/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/lib:/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/lib/_ilnx21/bin:/opt/coldfusion10/cfusion/lib/international::/usr/java/packages/lib/amd64:/usr/lib64:/lib64:/lib:/usr/lib

May 17, 2012 11:24:23 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-bio-8500"]

May 17, 2012 11:24:24 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-bio-8012"]

May 17, 2012 11:24:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal

INFO: Starting service Catalina

May 17, 2012 11:24:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal

INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.23

May 17, 2012 11:24:29 AM org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGenerator createSecureRandom

INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [5,002] milliseconds.

May 17, 2012 11:24:31 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services

May 17, 2012 11:24:31 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 20.4-b02

Could not determine local hostname.

java.lang.NullPointerException

at coldfusion.sql.Executive.load(Executive.java:258)

at coldfusion.server.ServiceBase.start(ServiceBase.java:59)

at coldfusion.sql.Executive.start(Executive.java:129)

at coldfusion.server.CFService.setupSql(CFService.java:147)

at coldfusion.server.CFService.start(CFService.java:548)

at coldfusion.server.j2ee.CFStartUpServlet.startCFService(CFStartUpServlet.java:110)

at coldfusion.server.j2ee.CFStartUpServlet.init(CFStartUpServlet.java:86)

at javax.servlet.GenericServlet.init(GenericServlet.java:160)

at coldfusion.bootstrap.ClassloaderHelper.initServletClass(ClassloaderHelper.java:121)

at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.init(BootstrapServlet.java:59)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.initServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1266)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.loadServlet(StandardWrapper.java:1185)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardWrapper.load(StandardWrapper.java:1080)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.loadOnStartup(StandardContext.java:5001)

at org.apache.catalina.core.StandardContext.startInternal(StandardContext.java:5278)

at org.apache.catalina.util.LifecycleBase.start(LifecycleBase.java:150)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1525)

at org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase$StartChild.call(ContainerBase.java:1515)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask$Sync.innerRun(FutureTask.java:303)

at java.util.concurrent.FutureTask.run(FutureTask.java:138)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.runTask(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:886)

at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:908)

at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:662)

java.lang.NullPointerException

at coldfusion.runtime.RuntimeServiceImpl.getQueueLimit(RuntimeServiceImpl.java:1957)

at coldfusion.runtime.RuntimeServiceImpl.load(RuntimeServiceImpl.java:399)

at coldfusion.server.ServiceBase.start(ServiceBase.java:59)

at coldfusion.server.j2ee.CFServiceImpl.setupRuntime(CFServiceImpl.java:98)

at coldfusion.server.CFService.start(CFService.java:560)