Macromedia application server is unreachable

Report · Feb 03, 2009

Hi, we are running a virtual server (p2v) copy of our production and dev CF6MX sites.

The virtual copy of the dev server, works fine.

However, in production we are getting the dreaded "Macromedia application server is unreachable or it does not have a mapping to process this request" server error. Our prod server was installed differently as it was originally intended to be a load-balanced server so the services in prod have "Macromedia" in their names, not in dev.

I've re-booted the server, restarted IIS, ran the bin/jrun.exe utility, and am still getting the error. The jrun utility yielded this message: "warning Could not find valid replication peer- assuming this server is first server running in replication group." I'm not sure if this is a show-stopper or not.

I also looked at the server log and nothing looked awry.

Any other ideas ? I've checked the forum here, and someone posted a link for this, but the link was dead...

Report · Feb 11, 2009

"warning Could not find valid replication peer-assuming htis server is first server running in replication group" is telling you this is the first instance to start up. Not a big deal (unless you're expecting other instances to be there already or this wasn't the first instance you expected to start).

If you changed the name of the server or IP addresses during your p-to-v process then the xml files may be trying to contact the wrong IP addresses.

When I get the application server is unreachable error, a quick iisreset or restarting the World Wide Web Publishing service will fix it. Sometimes a race condition happens and IIS and JRun seem to grab the connector at the same time and that error ends up showing up.