This blog is slowly turning into a ColdFusion site it seems :-) Blame ColdFusion for that, it's the one application server that I know a bit about and I really like working with.
Today I needed to install CF9 on Windows Server 2008 64bit and I ran into a few issues which forced me to reinstall a few times. I've now managed to install it successfully so here are a two tips that may safe you some hassle if you like me encounter a HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found.
First off, I was using IIS 7.5. As you may know, you need to install the web server role onto Windows Server 2008 first and it seems that everything labeled IIS6 tools and compatibility tools should be installed as well, so do that first. Then when running the CF installer right click and 'Run as Administrator'. Once I did that it was plain sailing, but not much joy without those two boxes ticked.
#1 by Robert Reinhardt on 11/19/09 - 4:43 PM
#2 by Stefan Richter on 11/19/09 - 4:46 PM
#3 by Paul on 11/20/09 - 1:47 AM
http://blog.kukiel.net/2009/10/coldfusion-9-on-win...
#4 by Stefan Richter on 11/23/09 - 9:39 PM
thank you and yes I saw your video. But somehow I may have missed the part that detailed the issue I had, which triggered my quick blog post.
#5 by Nick White on 10/5/10 - 2:04 PM
#6 by Stefan Richter on 10/17/11 - 11:06 PM
Anyway, since people still have this issue it seems that installing the IIS 6 compatibility tools (as Paul detailed in the video the IIS 6 metabase compatibility seems to be of particular importance when adding the IIS webserver role to Win 2008) was key to get me out of a failing CF install loop this time.
I wish Adobe would fix this. I even found a closed bug on this issue in the Adobe bugbase...