ColdFusion10 Application does not start automatically

[martie_henry]

CF 10 Application Server set to automatic.

It NEVER starts automatically.

All other CF 10 services do start automatically.

Running Windows 7.

My host, running Windows Server, has the same problem.

Any idea what's up?

[Anit_Kumar]

Hello Martie.henry,

Did you check the error logs? Are the services running under the account, which has administrator privileges or equivalent.

Please provide us the following information.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

[Charlie Arehart]

Martie, what often happens in these cases is that for some reason CF is taking a very long time to start, and there is a limit to how long a windows service can take to startup. And there is a separate timeout time for startup with windows having just started and all services beginning, versus the timeout for when in the services interface you choose to start a service.

While you could change that timeout time to allow for a longer duration, it may be better to find and resolve the cause of the slow startup. As Anit noted, you may find info in the CF logs. But if you do not, or if you cannot interpret them, and you don’t get other info here to help, I will note that this is the kind of challenge that may be hard to diagnose by email. There are just too many moving parts and possible explanations. But there are folks (myself included) who do such CF server troubleshooting, and it could be that an experienced troubleshooter could help you (remotely) to solve this in less than an hour. If you may be interested, I keep a list of such CF server troubleshooters as a category of my larger CF411.com list of tools and resources for CFers. See specifically cf411.com/cfconsult.

/charlie