ColdFusion 2023 command prompt start CF not working

[TechieGirl]

Welcome to the ColdFusion Setup Wizard

2024-07-30 14:35:54 ERROR - Administrator access is required to continue. Exiting...
2024-07-30 14:36:27 INFO -

I tried to run the cfstart.bat within the bin folder

Any ideas on what I can check or change rather?

[Charlie Arehart]

We'll likely need more info. First, to be clear, that's not some normal problem.

Also, that setup wizard shows in a browser on first execution of the admin. But you refer to doing cfstart.bat, and the start of cf should not involve the browser. Are you perhaps really saying you start cf and then go into the admin via a browser?

Or maybe something is unusual about your setup. How did you install cf? Using the zip file or exe that Adobe offers? Or something else?

Finally, is this the first time you're starting cf2023 this way (cfstart) on this machine? 

[TechieGirl]

This is my first install via the zip file.  I can't see where Services lists ColdFusion to start and stop, so I looked into how via the Command Prompt.  I can't get it to execute... it exits out and I see the above error in my logs.

[Charlie Arehart]

It doesn't implement the cf service, out of the box at least. You have to run the cfinstall.bat after extracting the zip. It's not clear. Had you done that yet? (More on that in the docs on the zip install mechanism.)

You'd not at all be the first to trip over this. It's one more reason most should probably just stick with the full installer. (You could still install it, alongside the zip implementation, if you wanted to try that.)

But otherwise, let's see if this gets you going. 

[TechieGirl]

Thank you.... When I click the cfinstall.bat file it opens the command prompt for one second and then closes immediately.  I can't accept the EULA Agreement???

[Charlie Arehart]

That is not so much a coldfusion problem. Anytime you run a bat file that will produce output you want to see, it's best to open the Windows Command prompt (or Windows Terminal) to run the bat file there. That way YOU WILL see the output. There will also be many prompts. 

[TechieGirl]

Thank you for all your help.... I figured it out. The Command Prompt I had pinned was not as Administrator afterall. 

[Priyank Shrivastava.]

@TechieGirl  It seems like you need to run the command prompt as Administrator. Try to open as Admin and then run the command cfstart.bat and it will start the server. 

[TechieGirl]

Thank you.... I already checked and I am.