Scheduled task errors in ColdFusion 8.0.1

Report · Aug 23, 2011

I am running ColdFusion 8.0.1 64-bit Enterprise edition, patch level chf8010004, on Windows 2008 R2 Server with IIS 7.5. I have several dozen scheduled tasks that query an Oracle 11gR2 database for basic reports and updates - nothing fancy. I recently migrated from IIS 6.0 on Windows 2003 server, where the scheduled tasks had worked correctly for years. When I recreated the tasks in the new environment, I receive the following error (my comments in parentheses):

The scheduled task is paused (not paused)
The URL is a redirection URL. (not redirected)
The URL is protected by IIS NT Challenge/Response or Apache .htaccess password. The Username and Password text fields

for editing a scheduled task are intended to support Basic Authentication only. (this may be the cause)
The Domain Name lookup failed. Try using the IP address of the domain whenever possible. (domain is good)
The URL is an SSL site, but the SSL port was specified incorrectly. (using SSL)
The Web site is not responding. (website is up)
The directory specified for published results does not exist. (directory exists)

Here is an excerpt from the scheduler.log file:

Connection Failure: Status code unavailable
Rescheduling for :Tue Aug 23 13:00:00 EDT 2011 Now: Tue Aug 23 12:00:03 EDT 2011
Error while executing task Connection Failure: Status code unavailable
Executing at Tue Aug 23 12:00:00 EDT 2011

If I copy and paste the URL from each task in a browser, it runs without a problem. I've tried using localhost in the URL as well as using my Windows authentication in the username/password fields and still will not run from the scheduler.

The only item that I am not sure of is the challenge/response item. I recalled that I may have used a setting in the old Windows 2003 to allow the scheduler to run in IIS. I am new to IIS 7.5 and may be missing some obvious. Any help would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Mike

Report · Aug 25, 2011

do you still have the old server, or was it upgraded? If so, check to see what the login account for ColdFusion was, and compare that with what you have on the new server. It sounds like the account that CF is running under on the new server doesn't have the correct permissions. Another test would be to temporarily change the CF account on the new server to be the same account that you are doing your testing from, and see if that works (since that same account seems to work for you interactively). Either way, that should give us more info to solve the problem. There are a few other discussions on this forum related to IIS 7 problems and permissions that are different from earlier versions.

-reed

Report · Aug 26, 2011

Reed,

Thanks for your suggestion. I will investigate on the old server to compare the authentication settings.

Mike