Installing CF9

Report · Jan 18, 2012

First, I am not a web administrator, developer (or probably anyone a CF9 license should have been given to) and am trying to install CF9 on Windows 2003 SP2.

I installed CF9 with IIS6 and all seemed well. The installation went smoothly without any errors. From the directions I chose not to install RDS (as recommended).

When I was finished, I was prompted to go to the CF Administrator at this address: http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

When I go there I get a 400 error.

The only non-standard thing I did on the install, our IS wants all applications installed on an H drive. Since CF9 gave me the option to change the install directory, I simply change the C: to H: and left the rest of the default.

Any recommendations? Our IS will not support CF, so I feel a bit stuck here. I was hoping this would be a little easier.

Thanks!

Report · Jan 18, 2012

How about http://12.0.0.1/ ? Does any browsed to URL work?

Does SERVICES.MSC have a ColdFusion application service? If so does it run?

Couple things to start you off there. Perhaps others will suggest alternate diagnosis to try.

HTH, Carl.

Report · Jan 19, 2012

carl type3 wrote:
How about http://12.0.0.1/ ? Does any browsed to URL work?
HTH, Carl.

I tried this URL and it timed out. When I tried the one Adobe pointed to it went to a 400 error immediately - is that a good thing?

Not sure what you mean about any URL. Do you mean any site other than the CF administrator? Yes, I can get to sites from the server.

carl type3 wrote:
Does SERVICES.MSC have a ColdFusion application service? If so does it run?
HTH, Carl.

These are all running:

ColdFusion 9 Application Server

ColdFusion 9 Search Server

ColdFusion 9 Solr Service

Is it because I installed it on the H drive? Does it need to be installed on the C drive to work properly?

Report · Jan 19, 2012

Pardon my typo. What does http://127.0.0.1/ do?

H drive file system permission could be an issue. Does the Windows service account "Local System" (or other user that CF service runs as if specified differently from Local System) have access to the ColdFusion9 folder and files?

HTH, Carl.

Report · Jan 20, 2012

I always appreciate it when people help me, thank you.

So, I got it working.

The CFIDE folder was installed in inetpub/wwwroot/CFIDE. I created a virtual directory to the from my site and logged on from www.mysite.com/CFIDE.

I still can't get to it from localhost on the server, but I don't mind. I'll never access it that.

Thanks,

Cliff