How to setting up local server for mx development

[leadman]

Hi all,

I'm setting up the cfmx server and I think I'm almost there! I'm used to keeping my sites locally in C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot,

but cfmx seems to want to have the files in C:\CFusionMX\

http://wwwroot.

Sure enough when I try to preview my pages from their original location I get an err (The page cannot be found, and it is looking in

http://localhost/mydirectory/TMPio51y3ybg7.cfm).

Is this because I need to move the files from C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot

to C:\CFusionMX\

http://wwwroot?

And if so, is there any way I can just leave them where they are and get the server to see them there?

 

[Guest_imported]

CFMX defaults to C:\cfusionmx\

http://wwwroot

because it thinks that you have an earlier version of ColdFusion installed. It also sets up its own web server (which is not very capable). What you need to do it uninstall CFMX and the older version as well, then re-install CFMX. You'll know that you were successful with the uninstall when the CFMX installer prompts you to select (or confirm) which web server you are using, and when it defaults to C:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot

(if you're using IIS).

If, when you try to install MX, you do not get the above prompt, then the CFMX installer thinks you still have an earlier version of CF installed. When that happened to me, I had to delete all references to ColdFusion from the registry. Just run regedit and search for ColdFusion, and Allaire. Delete the keys from the registry and try the installation again.