Charlie, I'm grateful to you for your willingness to step up, as always. You've been an asset to the community for a long time, and so it continues.
All i wanted to do, was upgrade my windows. I have 4 machines all running Windows 7 (one with Win7 ultimate, 2 with Win7 Pro, and 1 with WIn7Home Premium. ) Being cautious ever since an awful experience with Windows95 years ago, I started with my WIn7Home Premium laptop, which I dont use very often. If it went pear-shaped on that machine it wouldn't be a big deal. And i can take as long as I need to get it worked out before I need to upgrade all the other machines. So I upgraded the Windows on that laptop. Went swimmingly. Just as advertised. Took me a couple of hours to get a human to talk to me at Microsoft so I could find out how to get hold of the installer so I didnt have to download it all 4 times, but finally i got what I needed. I upgraded my windows and started testing all the applications I had loaded on there. To my surprise everything worked. Just as they had previously, but with a better look. And to my amazement, the new Microsoft browser looks at first glance to be a fine piece of work. (But I have yet to give it a real good workout) And Bing is no better than it used to be. But when I went to check how my dev versions of my sites ran, I came into problems. They are built on CF9 Enterprise. My Apache didnt run. Wouldn't start. I could have debugged it and got it working maybe, but I figured that I didnt know enough about IIS, and I own a server that serves pages with IIS, and i really need to know more about IIS. So. why not take this opportunity to start using IIS in my dev environment. How hard can it be??? So I just left Apache alone. I removed it from the list of programs that auto start on reboot and that's where it stayed. HAH!!!! You'd think I would learn wouldnt you. These things NEVER run smoothly for me. Never have, so why would I expect this to be any different? I installed the IIS components, taking a guess as to what elements I'd be needing if all i was doing was using it as a web server for my ColdFusion sites and maybe a simple static site or two. I loaded a static site into it and it worked fine. Great. I can assume IIS is working ok, even if I'm not 100% i have all the required components. Now all I have to do is connect my CF9 to IIS and run a CF site on it and I can relax. If only! So if you've followed this thread you'll see that I started out just trying to add IIS using the Web Connector tool. That didnt work. It just hung, and never got to the point of offering me the web servers it's found for me to select. The dialog box opened and it started searching for web servers installed on the machine and that's where it stayed. So i figured maybe what I'll do is uninstall CF9 and reinstall it. That way I can eliminate Apache from everything, in case that was the problem. I did that 3 times all with the same result. I installed CF9 as each of the variants offered in the install routine. Each time it would install apparently fine, but hang at the last point where it's connecting to the web server. That's where I'm up to. I don't know whether a Windows10/CF9 combination is EVER going to work, or I need to go to a later version of CF. (I am sticking with CF9 because that's what 's on my server, and I like to have my dev environment as similar to the production environment as I can get. But I can upgrade if that's the only way to go to Win10. I guess I'm going to have to update CF sooner or later, but I have no need yet because of clients needing the newer features or anything like that. I dont want to go to that expense just to stay near the cutting edge. I'll upgrade when/if there's a client need. ) I want to upgrade all my machines to Windows10 for reasons unrelated to web development. There are some problems with another app that we use for the radio station programming that are unstable and need upgrading. It's not urgent but we have a year before Win10 is no longer free. So I dont know what to do next. I suspect one option might be "just wait till Adobe provide a fix." Do you have any suggestions? Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "cfaussie" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to cfaussie+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to cfaussie@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/cfaussie. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
