Note: This blog post is from 2008. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily. Same with links and subsequent comments from myself or others. Corrections are welcome, in the comments. And I may revise the content as necessary.
Here's another entry in my
CF911 series. If you try to open the CF8 server monitor and get the error "ColdFusion Server is unavailable", the problem may be in your web server configuration. In this entry, I help you confirm if you're getting the problem I refer to here, and of course I show the solution (3 actually), with a caveat.
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While I'm at it, I'll also point out that there's one reason why you may see the checkbox enabled intentionally, if taking advantage of using it for missing template handler via IIS. See this Adobe technote: http://www.adobe.com... At least one blogger has also written about it (http://www.coldfusio...). If you (or your site's users) use that, then you need to consider one of the other alternatives I offer above.
This is something we tried on CF 8, and it still works. We can now use the server monitor after this change.
Just thought someone else might find this useful.
Thanks,
Ciarán
You can still get teh server monitor working without disabling file exists
step 1) follow the adobe technote which applies to cfform type=flashfor cf7
step 2) acces via ip and not domain name
Step 3) enable https for flex (the monitor is flex) -see link below
http://blog.crankybi...
Step 4) add flex2gateway folder in your web root and inside of this folder create a folder called cfamfsecure
also if you only are required to use http with ntlm and using file exists then you only need to add the following with no re-boot flip
1) add flex2gateway folder in your web root
http://www.adobe.com...
Also, Mike, from reading it, I see that where you in your note were referring to "ntfs", you meant "ntlm". I've corrected my entry above where I had incorporated the update you had offered.
That was after getting CF to work on IIS7 (Thanks Heidi: http://www.community... )
- Mark
Since the problem seemed related to a server (IIS) configuration, I'm not sure what Charles (or any other proxy) would have done. I'll say, though, that I am of course a big fan of proxies and besides Charles, I list several more at my CF411 list, http://www.cf411.com...
Yes the comment is out of the blue. Part of the solution that I gave came from Charles proxy as it listed what was causing issues(see step 4 in my solution). Charles actually stated what folders were needed.WireShark is also good...
As I do not have the ability to post my comment before the IIS comment it had to come after
Part of the reason I made the comment as well is that Charles has been a life saver on many occasions and anybody that does not know the product that does software/web should...