COldfusion 8 installation: CFM pages not loading in IIS

[lovewebdev]

I just uninstalled MX7 and installed CF8, but when I surf to a .CFM page on a web site on my local server, the browser prompts me to download the page instead of executing and displaying the page. This never happened before. My web site is not in the Coldfusion8 root folder; it's in C:/INETPUB/ Do I have to move it to the CF* folder? I didn't have to do that with MX7...

Could I have chosen an incorrect setting during installation? It asked me if I wanted to apply CF to all IIS web sites or create a web server, I selected to use built in web server. Was this incorrect?

It's weird because the server is running. I can access CF server Adminstration

I also see this when I try accessing RDS login within Dreamweaver:
http://www.hostdump.com/uploads/cb272b6ce7.jpg

Omar

UPDATE: I created a test folder in C:/COldfusion8/wwwroot instead of C:/Inetpub/wwwroot and it worked using http://localhost:8500. How would I have known that? So you can't use the IIS root folder any longer?

[Newsgroup_User]

If you are using IIS then yes it is wrong. If you tell it to use its own server then it won't use the IIS sites.

This would get you to the administrator now.

http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

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"lovewebdev" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message news:fett5n$nk1$1@forums.macromedia.com...
>I just uninstalled MX7 and installed CF8, but when I surf to a .CFM page on my
> local server, the browser prompts me to download the page instead of executing
> and displaying the page. This never happened before.
>
> Could I have chose an incorrect setting during installation? It asked me if I
> wanted to apply CF to all IIS web site or just create a web server, I selected
> to create a web server. Was this incorrect?
>
> Omar
>
>

[ukb_kumar]

Hi, I went through the problem of yours. As u have upgraded the CFMX7 to CF8, you have to configure the IIS server to CF8, which in your case is not done. So please configure the IIS using web configuration tool. After this put the cfm pages of yours in c:/inetpub/wwwroot . Then the pages will be accessed.

[lovewebdev]

How do you do that?

[Newsgroup_User]

lovewebdev wrote:
> How do you do that?
>


run {cf8 install dir}\runtime\bin\wsconfig.exe

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[lovewebdev]

I tried that. It didn't work.

This doesn't make sense, because I have an old site on IIS written in Coldfusion; I cannot access it now on my local server unless I copy it over to the Coldfusion folder?

[Newsgroup_User]

that's only because you have set up cf8 that way (with built-in web
server instead of on top of IIS).
what do you mean by "it didn't work"? are you sure you have done it
correctly?

follow instructions here:
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/htmldocs/help.html?content=webservmgmt_5.html

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Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
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