Trouble with CFMX7 Silent Installation

Report · Apr 01, 2008

Hello,

I am new to ColdFusion, but I have over 20 years' experience in the IT industry, mostly in the back-office. Please forgive any ignorance I may show here...

The Current System: ColdFusion MX on Solaris 9 with Apache 2.52.
I have been tasked with performing an upgrade of my organizations ColdFusion installation from MX6 to MX7. I am attempting to do this as a 'parallel' installation, where I keep MX6 running while I install the MX7 and then port the settings over to the new installation. I was successful and had the system working with MX7 after performing the interactive installation and allowing CF to configure the Apache web-server. Then boss informs me that I should use 'silent install' method, since we need to script and distribute the installation to geographically-dispersed and somewhat technically-challenged locations. Unfortunately, I have not been successful in getting the silently installed MX7 to talk to Apache. They both run, but the pages are not being fed either direction. Following is the contents of our .properties file for the silent installation:

# Install is silent
INSTALLER_UI=SILENT
#
# License information - full | trial | developer
SILENT_LICENSE_MODE=full
SILENT_SERIAL_NUMBER=xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx-xxxxx (intentionally x'd-out on this document for security)
#SILENT_PREV_SERIAL_NUMBER=xxx000-00000-00000-00000
#
# Configuration - standalone | jrun | ear | war
SILENT_INSTALLER_TYPE=standalone
#
# Components to install
SILENT_INSTALL_ODBC=false
SILENT_INSTALL_VERITY=false
SILENT_INSTALL_SAMPLES=false
# (UNIX only) whether to start CFMX7 when booting
SILENT_CONFIGURE_SYSTEM_INIT=false
#
# Directories
SILENT_INSTALL_FOLDER=/opt/coldfusionmx7
# EAR/WAR only
#SILENT_VERITY_INSTALL_FOLDER=
#
# Context root
SILENT_CONTEXT_ROOT=/web_root
#
# Runtime user for UNIX
SILENT_RUNTIME_USER=apache
#
# ColdFusion administrator password
SILENT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=adminpw
#
# Flash forms - EAR/WAR only
#SILENT_FLEX_ENABLED=true
#
# Enable RDS and password
SILENT_ENABLE_RDS=false
#SILENT_RDS_PASSWORD=

I also have the apache.conf and neo-query.xml files, if those would be helpful. Any ideas or assistance is appreciated!

Report · Apr 01, 2008

I assume that you have already tried to run "wsconfig" to configure your web server after running the silent installer.

I also wondered whether your CF installation works with standalone web server.

Report · Apr 02, 2008

Oguz,

Thanks for your reply. Yes we ran wsconfig, but had some trouble getting it to cooperate with us on the webroot parameter. I know that this is a required parameter so I edited the apache.conf file manually to direct the service to the correct directory. We excluded the standalone web-server since this is an enterprise/production installation, per the installation instructions.