Problems installing ColdFusion 9

[jcmlong]

Hi there, ive been trying install coldfusion 9 standard on a window server 2008 box and im running into some issues. 

I get throught the install process find up to the point where i load "http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm" for the first time, where i am just presented with a 404 page.

I have checked that the coldfusion 9 service's are running and that "IIS Metabase and IIS6 Configuration Compatibility / ISAPI" are installed.  I have tried restarting iis, restarting server, uninstall, reinstall, downloading the latest install files and manually setting up the mappings for .cfc/.cfm

Im a bit lost as to what to try next, ive installed it on other servers and its been fine.

System:

• ColdFusion 9 Standard
• Windows Server 2008
  
• IIS7
  
• SQL 2008

Jason

[meensi]

Hi,

Please check this post.

I think you need to update CF 9.0.1

http://forums.adobe.com/thread/766111?tstart=0

In the above link, the reply given by Deb

If you haven't already done so,  you might also want to install the CF 9.0.1 update, as it supports IIS7  without needing any of the IIS6 compatibility features.

http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html#cf9

[jcmlong]

Thanks for the reply, ive up dated to 9.0.1 now and restarted the box, but im still haveng the same issue.

[JR__Bob__Dobbs]

Questions / things to check.

1. Did you install CF in server or J2EE configuration?

2. Have you configured IIS as the web server for CF?

See: http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Admin/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf364104-7fd6.html

3. Are there any log entries, in CF's or Windows' logs that are related to this issue?

[Deb]

Now that you're running 9.0.1, you might want to try removing the IIS6 compatibility options.

From the installation docs:

Scenario 3: IIS is configured for ColdFusion 9
You are using IIS 6 Metabase compatibility and you want to use IIS 7 support.
In this case,
1 Unconfigure the (already configured) websites.
2 Turn off all options under IIS 6 Management Compatibility (Start > Control Panel > Programs and Features >
Turn Windows features on or off >Internet Information Services > Web Management Tools)
3 Reconfigure the websites.

[jcmlong]

1. I installed it in server.

2. yeah it was.

3. the only thing that are in there arestarts & stops

4. have removed & reconfigured the IIS, had mad no diffrence

Im going to thru stripping it off and putting it back on now IIS role has been removed

[JR__Bob__Dobbs]

To what Windows directory does the IIS web site at 127.0.0.1 map? Does this directory contiain the CFIDE directory and subdirectories?

[jcmlong]

still cant see "http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm" after that reinstall but this time all the handler mappings for CF are in IIS

[jcmlong]

It should be the default "c:/inetpub/wwwroot"

I dont know how to check this. i have tried pinging it and got a reply.

[JR__Bob__Dobbs]

I would verify this assumption by checkign your IIS/Windows documentation. Verify that the site can serve a static HTML page before troubleshooting CF.

[jcmlong]

i have put a static test page in the admin folder and i cant see it via 127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/test.html but i can through C://inetpub/wwwroot/CFIDE/administrator/test.html so im guessing that the ip of 127.0.0.1 is pointing somewhere else or not even set up?

[jcmlong]

sorted, the local ip of the box had be bound to another ip, changed it to this and all was good.

Thanks to everyone who has helped today