Upgraded to CF 10 - site won't load w/out index.cfm

[Guest]

I'm having an issue with  IIS7.5 & CF 10..

If I try to load http://www.mydomain.com i get...

The resource you are looking for has been removed, had its name changed, or is temporarily unavailable.

But if I key in http://www.mydomain.com/index.cfm     ...it loads!

I uninstalled and reinstalled twice - same result.

I also detached and reran the webserver Connection tool a few times.

I also double checked IIS's Default document and index.cfm is there...

Any feedback would be greatly appreciated.

[Carl Von Stetten]

Make sure the web connector properly installed the wildcard mappings.  In IIS Manager, click on the server (not any of the sites), and then open the Handler Mappings feature.  You should have some entries like this:

Also make sure that the "tomcat" ISAPI filter is installed.  Again, click on the server (not any of the sites), and then open the ISAPI Filters feature.  It should look something like:

The ISAPI filter is what handles the URL's with no explicit filename/extension.

-Carl V.

[Guest]

Carl,

I just checked them... everything is there as you said it is supposed to be.

I'm using this hack until I figure this out...

index.html...

<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.myDomain.com/index.cfm" >

[Carl Von Stetten]

Do each of your sites have a "jakarta" virtual directory created in them?

[Guest]

Yes Jakarta virtual directory is there in each site.

[Carl Von Stetten]

Anything in any of the ColdFusion or IIS logs?  And is that error message in your initial post one of IE's "friendly" error message (if so, turn off that setting in IE so you can see the more detailed message).

[Guest]

Ahh..

Here is something more...

[Carl Von Stetten]

In IIS Manager, click on the server (not any of the sites), and then open the ISAPI and CGI Restrictions feature.  You should have some entries like this:

Check if you have the last one.

[Guest]

It is there...

It seems that it is complaining about there being no mapping for when there is nothing. i.e. default document?

[Carl Von Stetten]

The only other thing I can think of is to look at any web.config files in the root of each site.  Are there any leftover CF9 settings in them?

[Guest]

Thank you so much Carl. I appreciate your help.

This is what is in my web.config file... I didn't write this nor do I know exactly where it came from.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<configuration>

    <system.webServer>

        <httpErrors>

            <remove statusCode="404" subStatusCode="-1" />

        </httpErrors>

        <staticContent>

            <mimeMap fileExtension=".air" mimeType="application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip" />

        </staticContent>

        <defaultDocument>

            <files>

                <remove value="index.cfm" />

                <add value="index.cfm" />

            </files>

        </defaultDocument>

    </system.webServer>

</configuration>

[Carl Von Stetten]

Try removing the whole <defaultDocument> branch (all the way through </defaultDocument>).  It is redundant with what is already in the server config settings.  Other than that, I'm out of ideas at this point.

-Carl V.

[Guest]

Carl,

Makes no difference.

For the record, last night I filed a bug in Adobe's Coldfusion Bug Database which when I just checked was just updated to "BugVerified" and status "ToFix" - which is reason enough to leave my hack in place and hold on for a few

https://bugbase.adobe.com/index.cfm?event=bug&id=3332317

Miguel,

Thank you for this. I will try it immediately and report back my success. This would be a better intermediate workaround than what I came up with.

Jack

[Carl Von Stetten]

I was starting to wonder if there wasn't some kind of bug.  Nothing else was making sense.

Thanks for filing the bug with Adobe!

-Carl

[Guest]

Alright I fixed it.

Here is what might have happened...

I said that I installed CF 10 2x. The first time I installed it directly to D, then I uninstalled it, and reinstalled it in D:\Coldfusion10. After my second install the applicationHost.config file erroneously had all IsapiModule settings pointing to the location of my first install.

This is contrary to what IIS Manager was showing us in the screenshots... D:\CFusion10\config\wsconfig\1\isapi_redirect.dll - which is correct.

Jack

[Miguel-F]

In order to get IIS 7.5 to work with CF 9 without appending the default document (index.cfm) I had to install URL Rewrite on the IIS server.  Basically it just appends index.cfm to the url when it is not included.  Kind of a hack I guess but that is the only way I could get it to work.  It's free.

Get it here:  http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/details.aspx?id=7435

Here are the settings that the module appended to our web.config file:

        <rewrite>

            <rules>

                <rule name="Insert index.cfm" stopProcessing="true">

                    <match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="true" negate="false" />

                    <conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll" trackAllCaptures="false">

                        <add input="{REQUEST_FILENAME}" matchType="IsFile" negate="true" />

                    </conditions>

                    <action type="Rewrite" url="{R:0}/index.cfm" appendQueryString="true" />

                </rule>

            </rules>

        </rewrite>