Installation problem of the CF Server 1

[ketankshah]

I installed the evaluation copy of CF Professional server 4.5.2. The entire installation went thru perfectly without any error. But when I went to test the installation it gave me the Explorer's "File Save As" dialogue box instead of executing the test.cfm file on the browser.

What will be the problem ? I have checked that my web server is running fine.

OS - Win NT 4.0
Web server - Win Nt IIS 4.0

Thanks.

Ketan

 

[iza]

it's only that your WEB server doesn't know the .cfm extension - so it's not about coldfusion server
i only know how to configure netscape server so if you use some other web server, i won't be able to help ... basically find where to edit the types and then add cf ones !!

 

[iqof188]

Ketan, make sure you enable "Execute" in the properties of the directory of IIS where you want to put your CF pages.
Hope this helps...

<webguru>iqof188</webguru>

 

[ketankshah]

I checked the properties if both the CFDOCS as well as CFIDE directories in IIS and both are with &quot;Execute&quot; permission.

The only thing I found is that as per the reply of &quot;Iza&quot; above, in IIS in the properties of Default Web Site when I went to Home Directory -> Configuration, I couldn't find the .cfm extension. So I need to add one but I don't know which executable path to put i.e which dll file I should link. I did this when I installed PHP and it worked. So this may be the problem.

Please help.

Thanks

Ketan.

 

[iza]

you should check if there is a iis forum here, if there is, then it's the place to ask --> you'll get better answers from iis &quot;experts&quot; than cf &quot;experts&quot; about iis

 

[ketankshah]

Thanks a lot.

I figured out the file to be selected as the executable path for .cfm, .cfml, .dbm extension. It is &quot;iscf.dll&quot; and is located in CFUSION/BIN directory.

Thanks a lot again for the help.

Ketan

 

[djrubin]

Try this for an answer...

http://www.allaire.com/Handlers/index.cfm?ID=7671&Method=Full