I agree. On my first install - Win2003 server - I simply put in the cd and followed the prompts. That was it.

John Cesta

On Wed, 25 Feb 2004 10:23:20 +0000, Stephen Moretti wrote:
> Ian,
>
> I don't understand what the problem is.
>
> You should just be able to follow the on screen instructions and
> away
> you go.  Obviously, you need to go through performance tuning and
> security lock down (particularly for a production server) after
> this,
> but it should just install.
>
> It used to be the case with CFMX (back when it was first released
> and in
> the Beta days) that it was best to install CFMX as standalone and
> then
> attach it to IIS afterwards.  CFMX 6.1 installer is much nicer these
> days and quite happily installs and attaches to IIS without messing
> on.
>
> Stephen
>
> Ian Skinner wrote:
>> This is on Windows 2000 server with CF 6.0/6.1.
>>
>> Ok, we must be doing something fundamentally wrong here because I
>> can't
>> believe the problems we have are universal or the entire CF
>> community
>> would be up in arms and boycotting Macromedia.
>>
>> We are setting up a new box, this is like the 4th one we have
>> done here
>> in the last year or so.  Every single time we have run an
>> installation
>> we get a problem with websites not accessing the correct CFM
>> files/directories.  And please before we are told to check "multi-
>> homed
>> servers," we have, We Have, WE HAVE!!!  But we still get the
>> problem of
>> when we put a simple Hello World template in our we sites, it
>> does not
>> RUN!  Some other template that we usually can not even locate
>> runs.  We
>> have always fought and fought with this for a couple of weeks and
>> until
>> now mostly succeeded but never understanding what made it work.
>>
>> So, we have complete uninstalled this box and are starting over.  
>> What
>> are the proper best practices to set up a multi-homed server so
>> that it
>> works the first time for all web-sites.  Do we want to set up the
>> built-in CF web server or not?  I would assume not with IIS, but
>> I am
>> not sure.  Where is the best place to put the CFIDE? WEB-INF?
>> CFusionMX
>> directories, if you do not install the built in web server?  What
>> other
>> settings can affect the template being run in a website?
>>
>> Please this is getting to be very frustrating, and I can't
>> believe it is
>> meant to be this hard.
>>
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