Hmm, if I had to guess, I would say you haven't checked the right logs. First right click on My Computer and click manage. Expand "Services and Applications" and click "Services". Check that "ColdFusion 8 Application Server" startup type is Automatic. Now restart your server. To view the windows log, right click on My Computer again and click manage again. This time expand "Event Viewer" and click on "System". There should be a bunch of recent "Information" entries from when Windows booted up from the "Service Control Manager". Go through them and you will see stuff like "The Terminal Services service was successfully sent a start control.". Look for ColdFusion. Also check the "Application" logs under Event Viewer for any errors that ColdFusion may have thrown while starting up. Now, as to the ColdFusion logs. Assuming a stand alone install with default folder locations, open up the following log file: C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\logs\coldfusion-out.log If ColdFusion did try to start, there should be something in this log file. ~Brad -------- Original Message -------- Subject: Re: coldfusion 8 application server not starting automatically From: Richard White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, September 18, 2008 1:37 pm To: CF-Talk <[email protected]>
thanks for your response brad, we can start it manually but it is just a bit of a pain to do this! looked into the log files and it didn't say anything at all. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;203748912;27390454;j Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:312786 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
