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Skipper Pickle - 28 Mar 2006 19:51 GMT

i've enabled IIS and installed CF7 Dev Ed from my Studio 8 CD. The
installation seems to be successful, but when i launch
http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm in Firefox, i get:

"Server Application Error The server has encountered an error while loading
an application during the processing of your request. Please refer to the event
log for more detail information. Please contact the server administrator for
assistance."

IE reports it as a 500 error.

The eventgateways.log has this:

"Information","main","03/28/06","11:51:31",,"Starting Event Backend Handlers"
"Information","main","03/28/06","11:51:31",,"Initialized
EventRequestDispatcher with a Thread Pool size of 1"
"Information","main","03/28/06","11:51:31",,"Initializing EventRequestHandler"
"Information","main","03/28/06","11:51:31",,"Starting Event Gateways"
"Information","Thread-0","03/28/06","11:51:37",,"Stopping Event Gateways"

The machine is Windows XP SP2.

i'm stumped. The installer log seems to be fine and the server log doesn't
look unusual. i've tried looking for technotes that address this, but i come
up with a bunch of near misses. i've downloaded and installed the 7.01
updater. i've run the Web Server Configuration Tool. Everything acts nice.
But still nothing. Something's messed up somewhere, but i've tried
uninstalling and re-installing, and i can't figure it out.

Any suggestions?

Thanks in advance.

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dimaint - 28 Mar 2006 20:23 GMT

What I usually suggest doing in such cases is enable built-in web server and
try accessing CF Admin using built-in WS. If you are successful in doing so
than there is something wrong with the connector. Otherwise, the installation
itself has gone wrong. Let me know what side you are on.

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Skipper Pickle - 28 Mar 2006 23:46 GMT

With the built-in web server option, i launch the Web Server Configuration
Tool. The Configured Web Server box is empty, so i click Add. Default
settings are:

JRun Host: localhost
JRun Server: coldfusion
Web Server: IIS
IIS Web Site: All

Just for good measure, i check the box marked "Configure web server for
ColdFusion MX applications". Then i click OK. i get a message saying the web
server is currently running and asking me if i want to restart it now. i click
Yes.

This doesn't seem to make much difference. The CF Administrator still runs,
and my CF sites in inetpub don't.

But you are probably more interested in what happens if i re-install without
the built-in web server option.

(For the record, i'm installing Developer Edition, Server Configuration, all
three subcomponents, directory C:\CFusionMX7, All IIS Websites, CF Admin
location C:\Inetpub\wwwroot. i have disabled Norton for the duration. i get a
message at the end that says i've successfully installed and that to continue i
must launch CF Administrator. Under this type of installation, CF Admin fails
as previously described.)

So now i launch Web Server Configuration Tool. Under Configured Web Servers,
i see this:

Internet Information Server (IIS): All

That seems to be what i want to see, and the buttons are Add, Remove, Exit.
So that's about as far as i get. On previous installation attempts, i've tried
clicking Add and modifying a checkbox or two, but with no change resulting.

Thanks.

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