coldfusion 8 on linux virtual ded server not running

[lucidtech]

I have attempted several times to get coldfusion 8 trial setup on my virtual dedicated server with no luck whatsoever. I finally got the connector files setup correctly so I'm no longer getting a connector error when i start the cf server, but when I go to a cfm page I get a 500 error that reads :

java.lang.NullPointerException
at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:285)
at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

This is the beginning of a very long cfserver.log file :

Starting Macromedia JRun 4.0 (Build 108673), coldfusion server
04/13 03:46:10 warning Unable to open /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/license.properties
04/13 03:46:11 info JRun Naming Service listening on *:2930
04/13 03:46:11 info No JDBC data sources have been configured for this server (see jrun-resources.xml)
04/13 03:46:11 info Deploying enterprise application "Adobe_ColdFusion_8" from: file:/opt/coldfusion8/
04/13 03:46:12 info Deploying web application "Adobe ColdFusion 8" from: file:/opt/coldfusion8/
04/13 03:46:13 INFO License Service: Flex 1.5 CF Edition enabled
04/13 03:46:13 INFO Starting Flex 1.5 CF Edition
04/13 03:46:13 user JSPServlet: init
04/13 03:46:13 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: init
04/13 03:46:13 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services
04/13 03:46:13 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 10.0-b19
04/13 03:46:14 Information [main] - /opt/coldfusion8/logs/server.log initialized
04/13 03:46:14 Information [main] - Starting logging...
04/13 03:46:14 Information [main] - Starting license...
04/13 03:46:15 Information [main] - Evaluation Edition enabled
04/13 03:46:15 Information [main] - Starting crypto...
04/13 03:46:15 Information [main] - Installed JSafe JCE provider: Version 3.6 RSA Security Inc. Crypto-J JCE Security Provider (implements RSA, DSA, Diffie-Hellman, AES, DES, Triple DES, DESX, RC2, RC4, RC5, PBE, MD2, MD5, RIPEMD160, SHA1, SHA224, SHA256, SHA384, SHA512, HMAC-MD5, HMAC-RIPEMD160, HMAC-SHA1, HMAC-SHA224, HMAC-SHA256, HMAC-SHA384, HMAC-SHA512)
04/13 03:46:15 Information [main] - Starting security...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting scheduler...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting WatchService...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting debugging...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting sql...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting mail...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting runtime...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - CORBA Configuration not enabled
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting cron...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting registry...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting client...
04/13 03:46:16 Information [main] - Starting xmlrpc...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting graphing...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting verity...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting archive...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting document...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting eventgateway...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - /opt/coldfusion8/logs/eventgateway.log initialized
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting Event Backend Handlers.
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Initialized EventRequestDispatcher with a Thread Pool size of 10.
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Initializing EventRequestHandler
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting Event Gateways.
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting FlexAssembler...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting .NET...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - Starting Monitoring...
04/13 03:46:17 Information [main] - ColdFusion started
04/13 03:46:17 user ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: application services are now available
04/13 03:46:17 user CFMxmlServlet: init
04/13 03:46:17 user CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
04/13 03:46:17 INFO Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646
04/13 03:46:18 user CFSwfServlet: init
04/13 03:46:18 user CFCServlet: init
04/13 03:46:18 user FlashGateway: init
04/13 03:46:18 user MessageBrokerServlet: init
04/13 03:46:20 user CFFormGateway: init
04/13 03:46:20 user FlexMxmlServlet: init
04/13 03:46:20 INFO Loading configuration file /opt/coldfusion8/

http://wwwroot/WEB-INF/flex/flex-webtier-config.xml

04/13 03:46:20 INFO Loading configuration file /opt/coldfusion8/

http://wwwroot/WEB-INF/flex/flex-config.xml

- Constructed GeneralCacheAdministrator()
- Creating new cache
04/13 03:46:20 user FlexMxmlServlet: Starting Adobe Flex Web Tier Compiler
04/13 03:46:20 user FlexMxmlServlet: Adobe Flex Web Tier Compiler Build: 184817
04/13 03:46:20 user CFInternalServlet: init
04/13 03:46:20 user FlexInternalServlet: init
Server coldfusion ready (startup time: 10 seconds)
04/13 03:46:20 info JRun Proxy Server listening on *:51800
04/13 03:53:55 WARNING [cache] Dependency information could not be stored in /opt/coldfusion8/

http://wwwroot/WEB-INF/flex/cache.dep

04/13 03:53:55 user CFMxmlServlet: destroy
java.io.FileNotFoundException: /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/logs/coldfusion-event.log (Permission denied)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.openAppend(Native Method)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>(FileOutputStream.java:177)
at java.io.FileOutputStream.<init>

 

[lucidtech]

found out my own problem... I uploaded the WEB-INF file to my Coldfusion webroot, then discovered that my license file for CF was corrupt, so I uninstalled and re-installed CF and wallah!