Fro future referance, all I do when securing the CFADMIN is to create a Symbolic link (as has been brought up) and restrict to IPs/Ban all inside of apache. Or, generally, because I'm uber-lazy, I just move the directory to like /opt/coldfusion/CFIDE and mv it back when I want to use it via SSH.
(Sorry for the spelling mistakes all, too little sleep) -Jesse > -----Original Message----- > From: Ryan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Tuesday, October 09, 2001 11:26 AM > To: CF-Linux > Subject: Re: moving cfadministrator > > > At 11:10 AM 10/9/2001 -0400, you wrote: > >i didn't change anything...i copied the CFIDE recursively > >and tried to login to change the mapping. > > Just copying it won't cause a 404, something else must have > changed. Try it > in lowercase and uppercase? You can check your apache access > file to see > exactly what file the web server is trying to fetch and is > failing on. One > of the CF logs should have the not found error, too, that might help. > > Try starting over. > > Remove the stuff you've copied. > > Try to login to the administrator and change the mapping to > where you are > going to relocate CFIDE to. If nothing else you should be > able to change > the mapping by editing the registry file directly (stop CF > while you do this). > > move the CFIDE directory to this new location (i.e. 'mv cfide > /opt/coldfusion') > > Add an apache alias so /CFIDE/ points to the new location of the cfide > directory. > Alias /CFIDE/ /opt/coldfusion/cfide > Alias /cfide/ /opt/coldfusion/cfide > > I always to two aliases so you can get to it in upper or lower case. > > Restart apache. > > That should do it. If nothing else you could reinstall CF and > tell it to > put the CFDOCS stuff somewhere else (just tell it a different > document root > when it asks). Then you will need to setup an apache alias to > access it. > Reinstalling CF should still preserve your custom settings from the CF > administrator. > > -Ryan > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-linux%40houseoffusion.com/ To Unsubscribe visit http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists&body=lists/cf_linux or send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with 'unsubscribe' in the body.
