Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Getting Started / April 2009

Click on this link:
http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

If Coldfusion still complains about the port, then configure XP's firewall to
allow port 51800. It is probably the default broadcast port for the JRun
server. To verify this, open the following file in a text editor:

C:\Coldfusion8\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\jrun.xml

Locate the element <attribute name="port"> nested within the element <service
class="jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService" name="ProxyService">. It is around
20 lines from the end. You will find that it has a value 51800.

Proceed as follows to open the port in XP's firewall.

1. Click on [i]Start[/i] and then on [i]Control Panel[/i]
2. Click on [i]Windows Security Center[/i]
3. Click on [i]Windows Firewall[/i] to open the firewall
4. Click on the [i]Exceptions[/i] tab
5. Click on [i]Add Port[/i]
6. In the [i]Name[/i] field, type a name, for example, JRun
7. In the [i]Port number[/i] field, type 51800
8. Press [i]OK[/i] and you're done.

Restart Coldfusion. Click again on the link I gave earlier.

I hope you did put the 8500 back where you removed it. In fact, put everything
back as it was, and lets's start over.

It could be that, during installation, you didn't configure a web server for
Coldfusion. A good place to start is to configure Coldfusion to use the
built-in JRun web server.

To do so, launch C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\bin\wsconfig.exe. A user interface
should appear.

Click on the [i]Add[/i] button. The interface [i]Add Web Server
Configuration[/i] should appear. The values for [i]JRun Host[/i] and [i]JRun
Server[/i] should be respectively [i]localhost[/i] and [i]coldfusion[/i]. Press
OK and then Exit. Restart Coldfusion.

Try that first. If it fails, there is yet another way, by menas of the above
XML file.

I tried this approach, but it didn't work.  Here is the error message I got.
"Could not connect to any JRun/Coldfusion servers on host localhost"
What should I do next?