Site cannot display CFM files

[Doc_Parker]

I've just created a new web site under IIS, and set the default document to index.cfm. However, attempting to display that, or any other CFM file, results in a browser 404 error.

It's not a file protection problem (the first thing I tried). Rename the file to anything.html and it displays without a problem; rename it back to anything.cfm and it 404s. I don't think it's a systemic CF server problem; other sites work fine. The problem seems to be with sites that I have created very, very recently, and the only thing that I know has been changed on this server has been regular MS updates/patches.

System data: CF MX7, on running IIS 6 under Windows Server 2003, SP2.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance for whatever help you can give me.

Robert Parker
DIrector of Technology, Flintridge Preparatory School

[Guest]

Do you have CF permitted in the Web Server Extensions under IIS? If you don't, that'll cause the web server to throw a 404 (even though it shouldn't).

Also, are your sites properly getting configured for CF when they're created (ie wildcard DLL and other dll's for various web page file extensions)?

[Doc_Parker]

Thanks--although that wasn't precisely "THE" answer, it did lead me via a circuitous Googling route to the REAL answer, which was simply to use the provided (but quite forgotten) Web Server Configuration Tool, and to configure the misbehaving server to play nicely with the ColdFusion server. Once I did that, the problem vanished.

Thanks very much for the assist!
Robert