Questions[coldfusion](server)

The ColdFusion 9 GUI installer doesn't work on Windows 8 (this is a known issue). To try to circumvent that, I've tried to use the "silent" installer, as detailed on the Adobe ColdFusion Blog: "Performing a silent installation of ColdFusion 9".

I have this installer.properties file:

INSTALLER_UI=SILENT
SILENT_LICENSE_MODE=developer
SILENT_INSTALLER_TYPE=jrun
SILENT_WEBROOT_FOLDER=C:\\apps\\adobe\\JRun\\4\\server\\cfusion\\cfusion-ear\\cfusion-war
SILENT_INSTALL_ODBC=true
SILENT_INSTALL_VERITY=false
SILENT_INSTALL_SOLR=true
SILENT_INSTALL_SAMPLES=true
SILENT_INSTALL_JNBRIDGE=true
SILENT_INSTALL_FOLDER=C:\\apps\\adobe\\JRun\\4
SILENT_SOLR_INSTALL_FOLDER=C:\\apps\\adobe\\ColdFusion\\9\\solr
SILENT_ADMIN_PASSWORD=123
SILENT_FLEX_ENABLED=false
SILENT_ENABLE_RDS=true
SILENT_RDS_PASSWORD=123

That all seems OK... I'm not happy about the way I have to second-guess the default installed ColdFusion instance path in the SILENT_WEBROOT_FOLDER value. But ultimately that would be where those files would go if I was using the GUI installer.

Anyway, I run the installer from the command-line (running as admin), thus:

ColdFusion_9_WWEJ_win64.exe -f installer.properties

This immediately kicks off the GUI installer, which promptly crashes due to it not being compatible with Windows 8.

My question boils down to:

1. is my installer.properties file correct. I'm presuming the instructions on the blog are correct, but Adobe to have a habit of not being very diligent with their documentation, so I'm not 100% sure of that;
2. why is the GUI installer still trying to run when doing a silent install;
3. is there any other way of getting ColdFusion 9 installed on Windows 8 (I suspect "no")?

I'm happy to provide any further info that might help.

I've been dealing with this issue on and off for YEARS, dating back to CF 5 and 6.

Out of the blue, Coldfusion just stops delivering email, and the mail just keeps building up in the queue.

To restart the service I can restart coldfusion OR run the following code:

  <cfset sFactory = CreateObject("java","coldfusion.server.ServiceFactory")>
  <cfset MailSpoolService = sFactory.mailSpoolService>
  <cfset MailSpoolService.start()>

The solution above is a fix noted on stackoverflow: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/94932/coldfusion-mail-queue-stops-processing

My goal would be to find a log or something that would help point me to the cause of the issue.

Is there a log that will tell me what is causing the mailspoolservice to crash? I can't seem to locate any errors in the CF Admin.

I have also tried to regenerate this issue, and I can't.

I'm currently running CF9 latest hotfixes applied, on windows 2008 r2

I installed the Coldfusion 9.0.1 update and now The application server won't start. I'm concerned that I may have installed the 64 bit update on a 32bit server but I am not sure how to check it without a running CF instance.

When trying to start the CF9 service I get the following error:

"Windows could not start the ColdFusion 9 Application Server on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendor, and refer to service-specific error code 2."

The Event log entry states:

"The ColdFusion 9 Application Server service could not be started. Check the server "coldfusion" log files for more information."

The last server log entry is from when I stopped the service before installing the update:

"Information","Thread-1","03/12/13","17:04:09",,"ColdFusion stopped"

My coldfusion logs don't seem to list any errors. The installation log claims that it was successfully installed.

At any rate I'd like to simply roll back the update but I'm unsure how to do that. I have a C:\ColdFusion9\updater_backup folder do I just drag the contents of that folder into the root directory in order to restore the previous version?

This is on Windows 7 Home Premium edition.

I have got two ColdFusion 10 (updater 2) instances: "cfusion" (the default one), and "scratch".

I have got a single instance of Apache 2.2 running.

Within Apache, I have set up two virtual hosts, each of which needs to be served by a different ColdFusion instance.

Each of the CF instances serves files fine via Tomcat's internal web server. Apache serves vanilla HTML files fine too. So both CF instances, and both virtual hosts separately work OK.

I can get wsconfig.exe to connect either one of the CF instances to the Apache server, and serve CF files via Apache & that instance.

However I cannot find a way of connecting the second CF instance to Apache as well, so that both CF instances are conected, each serving one of the virtual hosts. WSConfig doesn't seem to understand the notion of "multiple CF instances", and the changes it makes to the httpd.conf (via mod_jk.conf) does not seem to be implemented in such a way as to accommodate multiple CF instances talking to a single Apache instance, or multiple virtual hosts. I freely admit to not being confident enough with how mod_jk (or even really httpd.conf) works to be able to guess if I can change stuff to make it work.

If I try to add the second CF instance using WSConfig, I just get a message "the web server is already configured for ColdFusion". Be that as it may... not the instance of ColdFusion I want to connect it to! If I remove the existing connector to whichever instance is already connected, I can then connect the other one no problems. Not that this helps, but it demonstrates that the CF instance can connect to Apache.

This all used to be fairly straight fwd under older versions of CF and JRun :-(

The only docs I have found are on the "Connect multiple Apache virtual hosts on a web server to a single ColdFusion server" page, but that specifically only deals with a single CF instance. There is no equivalent page for multiple CF instances.

I'm kinda hoping I can move some of the mod_jk config into my virtual host entries in httpd-vhosts.conf (this is how it used to work for JRun), but I've no idea what to put where.

I think I've covered all the necessary info here? If not, sing out and I'll add more. Thanks.

PS: tried to specifically tag this as "ColdFusion-10" as the answer will be different from previous CF versions, but it won't let me cos my rep on this site is too low (odd how it doesn't consider my rep from other S/O sites...). If someone with sufficient rep can add it, that'd be cool: it's probably a valid tag to have. Ta.

A friend has a site developed in ColdFusion with MySQL and is looking for better cost-effective hosting as the traffic scales up rapidly. Azure comes to mind.

I haven't used Azure myself, however, I believe it is possible to setup and interact with the web-server via RDP into a hosted Virtual Machine?

I am curious if ColdFusion can be installed in the hosted Azure VM. Also, would the site have to be tweaked to run on Azure SQL, or could it continue to use MySQL?

Thanks.