Many thanks - so the problem was that there wasn't a problem... I
am amazed that I never noticed this when running CF on other
systems. Anyway all fine now.
Graham
On 12 Jul 01, at 10:34, Jochem van Dieten wrote:
> Mr G Lewis wrote:
>
> > This may be an NT Server question although I suspect it is to do with how
> > Cold Fusion interacts with NT.
> >
> > We have an NT Server set up with 3 partitions
> > C: operating system
> > D: applications
> > E: documents
> >
> > When NT Server installed it put the inetpub/wwwroot etc on C:
> > We moved wwwroot (but not inetpub) to E: and redirected home directory
> > of the web site to that location. So far so good.
> >
> > When we installed CF, CFUSION (application) went on D: and CFDOCS
> > went on E:/wwwroot/ - via the installation program.
>
>
> This is OK. It is supposed to go there. But keep in mind that generally
> speaking it is not advisable to install the CF documentation on a
> production server, only on test and development servers.
>
>
> > Now IIS seems ok with this - anything with a htm extension is found but any
> > cfm file is not.
> >
> > You can guess that we are new to this server stuff. Any suggestions?
> >
> > The error message that we see is below: Interestingly, if we use 127.0.0.1,
> > everything works fine. This is probably a blindingly obvious clue but
> > being novices we can't see how.
> >
> > -----------------------------------------snip--------------------------------
> >
> > Oops. Sorry for the error...
> >
> > One of several things could be happening:
> >
> > You're trying to execute a ColdFusion page with a
> > URL other than the localhost or 127.0.0.1, or
> >
> > You haven't installed ColdFusion example applications
> > or documentation.
> >
> > If you tried to execute a ColdFusion page, you just
> > need to:
> >
> > Execute example applications and ColdFusion utilities
> > locally, using the localhost URL or 127.0.0.1, or,
> >
> > If the pages you want to execute are not present,
> > rerun the ColdFusion installer to install the example
> > applications or documentation. Code examples that
> > you can run from the CFML Language Reference are
> > installed along with the example applications.
> >
> > Note that for maximum security, you should not install
> > ColdFusion example applications or documentation on
> > a production server.
> >
> > -----------------------snip--------------------------------------
>
> Well, actually, this is a ColdFusion error, so .cfm templates are found
> and processed by CF Server correctly. But since documentation files are
> considered a security risk you can only run them from 127.0.0.1 by design.
> If you create any other directories it should work just find, just not
> the cfdocs directory because that one is secured. The actual security is
> in the Application.cfm file so it propagates to subdirectories of
> /cfdocs, but you can remove it by deleting a few lines from the file.
>
> Jochem
>
>
>
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