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Another CF newbie question

Asked by: Activar

First - Thanks to all you experts for making this site such a great resource!

Ok...
I have successfully installed CFMX 6.1 Standard and am getting to the admin console just fine.

Our environment is Windows server 2003 IIS 6

I have created another website, other than the one hosting the admin console, and am trying to get it working with CF.
I have added the CFM and CFML mappings in the site configuration.

When I try to access the cfm page in the newly created site I get the following message:
*** Either the Macromedia application server is unreachable or it does not have a mapping to process this request ***

I'm not sure what needs to be done to correct this. Any help is appreciated.

I'll be checking this question in another hour or so, once I get home. I'll also be reading through the admin docs, extensively, this evening.

One more thing, if I may. When I got into the Admin console I received the message that the remote development service was not installed or was disabled. I don't recall seeing the option to install it on the server. I did install it while working with the developer version. Will this cause me any problems when I begin publishing applications from my local PC to the server? My local PC is using RDS for testing.

Thank again!

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2005-01-26 at 14:30:51ID21290102
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Answers

 

by: kyle1830Posted on 2005-01-26 at 18:40:20ID: 13149013

OK, you are using multiple hosts, you have to modify one of the files.

Web servers using ColdFusion mx that use multiple host
names with different document roots ("multihomed"
servers) must change the cacheRealPath option of the
ProxyService to false. (To do so, open the jrun.xml
file for editing, located in the
\servers\default\SERVER-INF directory (by default,
C:\CFusionMX\servers\default\SERVER-INF\jrun.xml). The
cacheRealPath attribute is nested in the XML <service>
element with name="ProxyService".) Otherwise, if two
sites have a script with the same name relative to
their web roots (for example, /index.cfm), the web
server might incorrectly render the scripts. This
setting might cause slower performance; this is why
the option is set to true by default.
THIS PART IN PARTICULAR
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
Edit
cf_root/runtime/servers/default/SERVER-INF/jrun.xml
and change the value of the following option from true
to false.
<!-- set this to false for multi-hosted sites -->
<attribute name="cacheRealPath">true</attribute>
>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>


Kyle

 

by: ActivarPosted on 2005-01-26 at 19:52:34ID: 13149319

Kyle,

Thanks for responding.

I took a look at the file you mentioned and the attribute was already set to false.

    <!-- set this to false for multi-hosted sites -->
    <attribute name="cacheRealPath">false</attribute>

Any other thoughts?

 

by: kyle1830Posted on 2005-01-26 at 20:16:30ID: 13149421

what about in iis, check to see if setting in home directory is set for script source access.

also read what this guy did to fix a similar problem (not exactly yours, but may help), and the article that he refers to.

http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/messageview.cfm?catid=65&threadid=935866&enterthread=y

I will keep thinking about this.

 

by: kyle1830Posted on 2005-01-26 at 20:20:01ID: 13149440

Did you restart the server?

 

by: kyle1830Posted on 2005-01-26 at 20:22:47ID: 13149453

I also found this a extension mappings
http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/messages.cfm/Threadid=29928&forumid=4&#150173

keep looking.....

 

by: ActivarPosted on 2005-01-26 at 20:29:03ID: 13149486

Thanks Kyle - I've increased the points also.

I'll spend some time yet this evening reviewing your latest comments.

Yes, I have restarted the server.

 

by: kyle1830Posted on 2005-01-26 at 20:39:28ID: 13149531

I also found this about NTFS file permissions and some of the CF service
http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/security/security_zone/mpsb03-02.html

Also, Did you check the services to see if RDS was running?

 

by: ActivarPosted on 2005-01-26 at 20:51:10ID: 13149574

In reference to your last message:
This site is not using windows authentication so the NTFS rights shouldn't apply.
What is the RDS service called? I have the Coldfision Application service and two ODBC services, one agent and one server.

Does anything have to be done within the mappings section within the Admin console?

Thanks again for your help.  I'll be back online in the AM EST.

 

by: ActivarPosted on 2005-01-27 at 11:06:37ID: 13155733

I was able to get the problem resolved.

The trick was to modify the IIS_connector.bat file to connect CFMX to my new site.
The syntax I used to get this done is:
java -jar ..\..\runtime\lib\wsconfig.jar -ws iis -site "SiteName" -filter-prefix-only -map .cfm,.cfc,.cfml -coldfusion -v

I got to this when I ran across a mention of an IIS Connector at http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18572 .
This led me to the directory the bat files are stored in, CFusionMX\bin\connectors.
Along with the IIS_Connector.bat there is a ConnectorList.bat. I first ran the ConnectorList.bat and the results showed that only the admin site was configured for connection to IIS. I then made a copy of IIS_Connector.bat and modified it to use the syntax I shared at the beginning of this note.

I then did a quick test with a cfm page and the cfoutput tag and everything displayed properly.

 

by: kyle1830Posted on 2005-01-27 at 11:14:05ID: 13155821

good to know.

good luck, hopefully you can get moving with your production server now.

kyle

 

by: kyle1830Posted on 2005-01-27 at 11:22:42ID: 13155930

I agree, no argument here.

 

by: moduloPosted on 2005-01-27 at 11:47:43ID: 13156229

PAQ-ing the question and refunding 250  points

Thanks  kyle1830 !

modulo

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