CF911: Help, How do I connect sites to a new instance w/ the ColdFusion 10/11 webserver config tool?
Note: This blog post is from 2015. Some content may be outdated--though not necessarily.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.This one causes a lot of heartburn for folks: you add a new instance in CF10 or 11 (in editions other than Standard, which do support adding instances), and you find that you can't seem to have the web server configuration tool (wsconfig) connect sites to that new instance(s). You never see the new instance listed in the UI of the wsconfig tool. What gives?
The solution is relatively easy, and the problem could maybe be fixed (or at least warned about) by Adobe (and I just filed a bug report for it). Until that happens, I wanted to share this. For more, read on.
I hope this helps someone understand why the website list does not show up in wsconfig.
I don't know if we should consider it a bug. I suppose some could, so if you wanted to open it as a bug report, some may appreciate it, and perhaps Adobe would consider it in the context of the various issues like I raised in mine (or feel free to throw it in as a note and/or vote in the bug report I'd mentioned above).