Thank you for your suggestions Bryan. Of course it's my own stupid fault for expecting that installing this version will be as straightforward as every other version of CF I've installed. (I've done it about 10 times now with various versions at different clients - this is my first installation with CFMX). And yes, I shouldn't have done it at the end of my day. Never blamed anyone but myself. But having got in a pickle, I had kind of hoped that I'd be able to get some help from somewhere. At 4am there is no one at any tech support.
I wanted them to coexist because I have clients using CF5 and I want to move my own hosting business to CFMX. Therefore I'll have sites on both. The docs said you can have them coexist. So I figured that's a good way to do it. I wont end up designing things for my CF5 clients that don't work when I load them up on their servers. No one and none of the docs said that this configuration runs at minutes per page, even with 950MB RAM. I installed CFMX to run off its own standalone web server as the docs say. It did run but so appallingly slowly, that I felt I had to pull it down and install it again as the only CF server on my system, replacing the CF5. And I'll just have to be very careful with the tags I use for my CF5 clients. But installing this second time after removing CFMX didn't work. THAT's my problem. I have an incomplete installation and I don't know what to do. No I haven't tried tech support. They aren't there. Wont be until Monday. Unless you know a tech support that I don't. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Bryan Stevenson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2003 5:29 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Installation problem with MX - HELP!! Man I'd stop slagging people for not helping or not caring..it's not going to get you any help. It could simply be that nobody has an answer for you. IMHO you should not install a new CF Server in the last 30 minutes of your day....that's your oversight and not ours. Why did you want them to co-exist in the first place? Did you try and install CFMX to run through IIS along with CF 5 or did you try and install it to run off the standalone server? AFAIK it can only co-exist with previous CF versions if it runs through the standalone server. Have you tried tech support? Bryan Stevenson B.Comm. VP & Director of E-Commerce Development Electric Edge Systems Group Inc. t. 250.920.8830 e. [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "Michael Kear" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:10 AM Subject: RE: Installation problem with MX - HELP!! > Well I think I have no choice but to give up. I have been trying to get > someone to help with my problem for 3and a half hours now, and its > after 5am Saturday. I still have a partial installation of CFMX. It > doesn't work and nor does my previous CF5.0. What began at 9pm last > night as what I thought would be a 20-30 minute job before stopping work > has turned into an 8 hour nightmare with no sign of any solution. > > No one seems to be able to see what my problem is. All I've had in the > last 3.5 hours is either "calm down and fix your problem" or "rtm" or > being told to do something that's at least 4 steps past where the > installation got to. > > > The problem is this: I was stupid enough to believe the Macromedia docs > when they said CFMX could coexist on a winXPPRO system with CF5.0. When > it proved that it would work but only if you measure response times with > a calendar, I decided to bite the bullet and go for CFMX on my Dev > server rather than both servers. I removed the CFMX, and reinstalled > it according to the installation instructions on the Macromedia site. > Out of 11 steps, it got to step 7 and won't go further. NO one has > seemed to grasp this notion so far. > > > I think I am going to have to tear down all my CF server stuff, and > rebuild CF5.0 from scratch, then probably have to redo all my DSNs too > because last time I installed CF it broke all the DSN settings. It'll do > it again probably. Somehow I'll have to figure out which Macromedia > registry keys are for Fireworks, which for DWMX, which for FlashMX so I > can leave those there, and which are for CFMX and which for CF5.0. > > > I just apologise for having such a boring problem that no one wants to > bother with it any more. I tried to look in House of Fusion's archives > for IIs or CFMX but you get fifty gazillion entries. > > > This list is becoming very clique-plagued. Unless you're one of the > inner circle on this list, its difficult to get a question answered. > I'm sorry about that because it has been a wonderful resource over the > last 3 years as I learned about ColdFusion. Now it's next-to-useless > because it's all about CFMX, I don't have CFMX, and it seems no one > will help me GET CFMX either. > > > SO back to CF5.0 I go I suppose. That's if I can actually get that to > work. > > > Does anyone have any idea how I can recover all the settings I had in my > CF5 now that the installation has partially wrecked it? > > > > Cheers, > Michael Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks. > > > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Michael Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2003 4:03 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: RE: Installation problem with MX - HELP!! > > Thank you for your advice. Right here its just gone 4am Saturday. I > started updating my server at 9pm Friday. All previous installations of > CF have been a 10 minute job. This time it's been hours. > > There is no one at Macromedia to ask at 4am on Saturdays. > > My servers are broken and I have a deadline that is now looking pretty > dubious and I want to get to bed sometime before dawn. All I was doing > was following the instructions in the docs that so many people have > referred me to. > > I am sorry I yelled, but I am not such an amateur that I would load > totally new software on a production server. > > > Thanks for your suggestion that I put a logical gameplan together. I > started asking the question on this list when I realized that I had > exhausted all the options in knew about. I thought perhaps some of you > who had been through this before might help me. All anyone seems to > want to do is either criticize me or tell me to RTFM. I'VE READ THE > (*&*&^ MANUAL! IT DOESN'T HELP! The manual got me into this damn mess > because it told me I could have both servers on the one system. > > > So what exactly would your logical game plan be? > > > > Cheers, > Michael Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > AFP Webworks. > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
