For the old time ColdFusion developers.

[ilssac]

I have a venerable ColdFusion 4.5 server, oh how I look forward to 
replacing it with a new server - but that is still some months into the 
future.

Anyways, I have not looked at this server in a year.  Needed to do 
something on it today and find all CFM code on the server, including the 
ColdFusion Administrator portal is returning the following message:


      Error Occurred While Processing Request


        Error Diagnostic Information

An error occurred while attempting to establish a connection to the server.

The most likely cause of this problem is that the server is not 
currently running. Verify that the server is running and restart it if 
necessary.

Unix error number 2 occurred: No such file or directory


This is a Solaris 8, Unix installation of ColdFusion 4.5 Professional.  
I am not an administrator on this box so I do not have any permissions 
to snoop around beyond what can be accessed through a browser.  But, 
when my support ticket finally gets to such a sysop, I know they are not 
going to know much about ColdFusion. Can any of the old hats on this 
list give me some insight on what this error may mean for when they come 
asking me.

TIA

[Adam Cameron.]

4.5.  Yikes.  I feel dirty even reading about it 😉

Um, I only ever used 4.5 for about my first six months as a dev... CF5 came out then and we jumped to it as soon as we could.

I googled CF "An error occurred while attempting to establish a connection to the server" and came up with this:

http://www.adobe.com/devnet/server_archive/articles/cf_timeouts_and_unresponsive_requests.html

So it sounds like the error is a symptom of a CF restart after too many timed-out requests?

--

Adam

[ilssac]

Thanks for the link Adam, I had found that same document but could not see how it would apply to the behaviour I was seeing.

However the sysop finally got in after a morning Doctor's appointment, and found that ColdFusion was not running.  Issued a start command, and things seem to be fine.  A few moments of trying to look at a log to see when and maybe why ColdFusion had stopped running just turned up more wierdness.  At that point we bailed as this server is just not important enough to spend any real brain power or man hours on.

Thanks for chiming in.

Ian