ColdFusion8 Installation

[Guest]

Hi All,

I downloaded and installed CF8 and I haven't been able to connest my access database. I saw another post whereby the same problem occured and someone stated that there was a problem with the installer. Has this been correct? I also lost the connection to my CFMX 6.0 standalone and have tried to no avail to recover from that So right now I'm dead in the water as far as development is concerned. Can anyone help?
Best,
Joy

[Guest]

Hello All,
I uninstalled cf8 then re-downloaded it from Adobe. I allowed coexist with cfmx6
I unchecked adobe live. I receieved errors and I don't see the cfdocs file. Please, please help.
Thanks,
Joy

[Guest]

HI Joy,
What i see from ur post is that , first time ur CF installation was fine , and now the installation is giving some error . When u r installing CF8 make sure that ur CF6 is down . After installation of CF8 u hv to start the CF services, If u r using windows OS there are 5 services to be started before u open any page or do anything . If ur installation is ok and still u find problem in connection to ur DB post the error which u r getting

[ukb_kumar]

Start the services ODBC in services. The name of the services are coldfusion8 ODBC agent. Also in case of other OS after installing the coldfusion just open the coldfusion administrator and let it configure the services. In this the ODBC will be restarted also.

[Guest]

Hi all,
There was no link to start the administrator in the cf8 file so I typed it into the address line of windows IE and it came up. I connected a test site with as Access db but I could not connect it as Microsoft Access only as Microsoft Access with unicode because it said I didn't have ODBC. The last time I installed it I did install ODBC and documentation only. I don't understand why this occured and what is unicode? How does that actually effect a Microsoft Access DB and the files that connect to it? What should I do next? Please help. Up the creek without a paddle and heading toward the falls. Best, Joy

[Libby_H]

The only way I could get the ODBC services installed correctly was to check and install the documentation too. I had seen a post before that the installer had problems. Might was to give that a try.