Installing ColdFusion on IIS7 Still a Pain

Vista iconThis post isn't anything new, but I felt that I should document that yet another person has wasted some of their life struggling to get CF working on an IIS7 machine. I first ran into this problem about 6 months ago when trying to install CF8 on Windows Server 2008 (64-bit), and we had so many problems doing it that the server was rolled back to Windows Server 2003 (32-bit) to get around it. Today I had to get CF9 installed on a Vista, and had to deal with the same issues all over again. Luckily the solution was simpler this time, and involved only one reinstall of CF, rather than 5 and a full wipe of an OS like last time.

Why hasn't this been fixed by now?

Oh, and for those needing a solution, I found mine at Dale Fraser's Blog.

 


MD_CUSTOM_ERROR (6008)

So, while working on stuff my IIS install randomly started spitting out a freaky error message. I did a Google search and came up with this blog post. No idea what brought it on, but follow the directions there and everything goes back to normal.

 
Jon in Chicago, July 2008

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