damn its hard to hold my tongue on this one! Glad you got it working mike :)
winblows rules!!!! ---------------------------------------- From: Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, February 26, 2005 7:49 AM To: CF-Talk <[email protected]> Subject: SUCCESS!!! I have CF7 going!!! Oh! the relief! As I'm sure you are all aware, I've had a rather eventful installation experience, installing CFMX7 on my WinXpPro dev machine, so I can get to know CF7. It's got a bit heated, and I've clearly offended a few people by being so insistent and persistent, but you'll all be as relieved as I am to learn that my CF7 is now going!!!!!!!!! I decided with some help (detailed below) that the problem wasn't the CFMX7 installer but windows, and that CFMX7 either didnt detect the problem, or did but didn't tell me any way what the problem was. I cleaned out a lot of applicatoins that are not used any more (mostly shareware) and got rid of a lot of servicse I dont use, cleared off all traces of CFMX from my system, then tried another install. I installed using the built-in web server, and BINGO! - a working installation. Thanks be to: * Neil Robertson-Ravo from UK who hung around last night for 5 and a half hours working through the problem with me by MSN Instant messenger, and helped me decide it wasnt CF but windows causing the problem AND * Michael Tangorre who was quick to offer help, and in fact spent several hours today using the remote desktop while his fiance called him from upstairs (now THERE's dedication to helping a fellow traveller!!) and who advised me to get rid of all the old rubbish on my system, AND * Dave Watts, who gave me the suggestion that did the trick And also, thanks to Jochem van Dieten and Steven Erat of Macromedia Support, both of whom offered to spend their own time by breeze or remote desktop to help me work out what was stopping this installer from doing what it should do. Thank you, Thank you, Thank you! You people are Good People. A couple of things that could be improved in the ColdFusion installer: * When the installer fails, there is never an indication as to why it fails. I think there ought to be. * In the docs, there is a page headed "Verifying the installation" with a number of checks to make sure it's all set up correctly. But there is no link to documentation about what to do if it's not. It wouldnt take a lot of effort for someone to just put a link to the support notes describing how to fix what's broken. * If there is an app running on the system that will break the installer, how hard should it be to search for it in the preparatory stage of the installer, then halt the instaler if it's present, with a warning, asking the user to close it down before proceeding. * Despite all the assurances, there does appear to be issues with the installer and IIS5.1. Yes, a great many people have installed it successfully with IIS, but also quite a few, such as myself and others who have written to me who DO have problems with IIS. In my case, these things could have saved me a LOT of time installing my CF7, and would certainly have saved all of you on CF-Talk a lot of anguish with all my posts on the topic. Anyway, its done now, and i'm now running on the built-in web server. -- Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Logware (www.logware.us): a new and convenient web-based time tracking application. Start tracking and documenting hours spent on a project or with a client with Logware today. Try it for free with a 15 day trial account. http://www.houseoffusion.com/banners/view.cfm?bannerid=67 Message: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=i:4:196711 Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/threads.cfm/4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/lists.cfm/link=s:4 Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4 Donations & Support: http://www.houseoffusion.com/tiny.cfm/54
