Anyone having problems with ColdFusion 8 on Vista since SP1. Well lots of people are having problems with the install / config.
I reported to Adobe and the answers are a bit disapointing. Firstly they knew nothing about it, you might think they would test the software post a release of a major Service Pack, or even on one of the betas. Secondly the response I got, was I tried it and it worked fine.
Anyway, after many, many hours I know exactly what the problem is and there is a simple workaround.
The problem lies in IIS, if you don't install the right bits, it won't work, im not sure if these used to be installed under Vista by default but they aren't there anymore.
There are two things you need to manually select when installing IIS. You need to manually tick the three things highlighted here. Once you do that and install IIS, make sure you reboot before installing ColdFusion, even though it might not ask or force you too. IIS doesn't start working until after a reboot.
After that it's smooth sailing, just install ColdFusion 8, there is no need to run as administrator or do anything else special.
12 comments:
So that's why I didn't have trouble on my dev machine. I'm using the CF web server.
Yep,
I was using the built in server also, until I worked it out. The built in server works fine.
Is there any major difference between local development and using the built in server to using IIS?
This was driving me nuts. I was about to install WAMP and just use Apache. In fact I still might just to try it out.
Thanks for helping!
Hi Dale,
I am having the same issue with Vista and CF with IIS, but your fix did not help my situation. I would appreciate any other ideas you have and would also be interested in working out something for you to look at my system and help me solve the problem. Let me know if you are interested. Thanks.
chris@chriscurrie.com
Dale, that was brilliant. I'm running Vista Ultimate. I don’t know how you put that together but it worked great for me. The key was, check all three things that you mentioned re-boot, and then I had to un-install CF, and then re-install, and it all worked like a champ after the reinstall, many thanks! Gunnar
Thank you for investigating this. SP1 trashed IIS for me and when I reinstalled CF8 wouldn't work. This article pulled me back from the brink of madness.
Oh my - this problem had me just over that brink o'madness. Thank you SO much for finding this, and multiply that thanks for having taken the time to publish. I NEED this working in time for a class on Saturday - this fix saved my day.
sir, you are saving lives. (trumpets blare and princess leia places a medal around your neck)
this info was hardish to find, but you nailed it.
This worked for me.
Thanks Dale!
Nice. You don't even need to reinstall, just run the IIS connector configuration utility. Thanks for the tip!
I'm just trying to install the developer version of Coldfusion 8 on Vista and it unpacks the installer until 99% then tells me to pick another place to put the install files. It doesn't matter where I choose, I get the same thing.
Any help is appreciated.
David
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