Installing ColdFusion 8 On Windows Vista and IIS 7
There are lots of other guides out there that explain how to install ColdFusion on IIS7, but I haven't found any specifically for ColdFusion 8. Not much is different from the CF 7 guides.
To be honest I had high hopes and expected ColdFusion to not have any problems installing out of the box, so first I enabled IIS and installed CF. When that didn't "just work" I went looking for information.
I ended up working from this guide, and did everything there that I hadn't already done. For some reason, I still got an error, which I'm now wishing I had taken a screenshot of before I fixed it. I've tried breaking my installation to get it back, but can't get the exact same error message. If memory serves, it just said, "Server Error" and had a single line of meaningless IIS information under that. (So you're not missing much...)
Some more googling gave a hint, but not a definitive answer, that what I needed to do was use the Web Server Configuration Tool.
So start that puppy up:
(Yes, I use the kitten as my icon. Got a problem with that?)
And that brings up this bad boy:
Notice that there are no configured web servers. That is a pretty big clue, right there. (Facepalm, anyone?)
So we're going to ... you guessed it ... click the "Add..." button. And that brings up this mofo right here:
The only change I made on this screen was to check "Configure web server for ColdFusion 8 applications" -- the rest were the default settings. There are a couple of settings available by clicking the "Advanced..." button that I'm not sure about, so I left them at their default settings as well.
I chose the default settings because I don't do anything fancy on my local machine. I don't have the need to run multiple instances of ColdFusion, nor configure anything special web-server-wise. I'm a vanilla-install kind of guy.
Click OK, Exit the Web Server Configuration Tool, and you're off and running.
in | 4 Responses 2009-02-11 20:17
4 responses:
- Laura Norris 12 Feb 2009 1:00 PM Good to know! I'm familiar with the Web Server Configuration Tool because it is used when you install with the Multiserver configuration. I've never done anything with the Advanced options.
- Chris Dawes 24 Feb 2009 11:59 PM If you enable the iis6 compatability tools when you enable iis on vista, CF installs perfectly.
- Luis Majano 01 Mar 2009 9:27 PM Unfortunately, I get "NONE" as default websites for IIS.
- Andrew Clarke 21 Apr 2009 10:14 AM Hey Luis. I had the same problem and followed Chris Dawes' advice and checked "IIS 6 Management Compatibility". This did the trick. This is using Windows Server 2008 64-bit, with 64-bit ColdFusion. Hi from a happy ColdBox user :-)
