Problem w/CF Installation

[jcoffey12]

i am trying to get CF MX7 installed on WinXP. the installation goes fine,
with no errors. i can connect to the CF administration page with no problem.
when i try to update or add a datasource (Access mdb), i get a server
communication error. i believe this to be a java error.

also, when i define my site w/in dreamweaver (mx2004 or 8), the "test url"
button gives me an error - unable to display data - for the defined URL
(localhost:8501/wwwroot/....). when i test [url]http://localhost:8501/[/url], it's fine.
adding wwwroot, or anything after fails.

i changed the port to 8501 hoping that would resolve he issue, but did not.

ideas? i've uninstalled CF and reinstalled a number of times, as well as DW 8.

thanks

[mxstu]

> i get a server communication error. i believe this to be a java error.
Can you post the exact error message?

>unable to display data - for the defined URL (localhost:8501/wwwroot/.

I don't know about Dreamweaver, but typically the default CF mappings are set
up so that the "wwwroot" folder is the webroot. So you would access the page:


c:\cfusionMX7\wwwroot\myPage.cfm

... with the url ....

[url]http://localhost:8501/myPage.cfm[/url]

... and not ...

[url]http://localhost:8501/wwwroot/myPage.cfm[/url]

*Assuming your port number is 8501

[jcoffey12]

thanks. my app will work ok, but i can't accss the datasource. i still have the server communication error when setting a datasource from w/in CF.

-jc

[mxstu]

Can you post the error message?

[jcoffey12]

the error is in a window with a black and yellow "hazard" border on the top,
containing a large blue italic "i" next to "Server Error". next line "io
error on server communication" if i can get a screen shot, i'll post/email.

when i first tried to browse for the datasource, i can see the java logo
during startup....

[mxstu]

So is the error when you try to add a datasource through the CF Administrator
or through DW? I can help you with setting up a DSN in the CF Administrator,
but I'm not running DW8 so I really can't help you with that side of things.
You could try the DW forums:
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/webforums/forum/index.cfm?forumid=12[/url]

[jcoffey12]

sorry for any confusion. i think some of my problems in DW are caused by
problems in CF. let's focus on CF.

i'm using the CF Admin utility to attempt to define datasources. the CF Admin
encounters the IO error when i try to browse to an .mdb file.

[mxstu]

What is the exact error message?

[jcoffey12]

please see prior repies.

it was a java window....

[mxstu]

Sorry. I was thinking it was your typically java stack trace error.

[jcoffey12]

the error is in a window with a black and yellow "hazard" border on the top,
containing a large blue italic "i" next to "Server Error". next line "io error
on server communication"

sorry - was in a hurry.

[mxstu]

I know you're working with MX7, but did you see this technote? The problem sounds very similar.
[url]http://www.macromedia.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=tn_18046[/url]

[jcoffey12]

thanks. i was thinking that RDS may have been the problem. so i'm
reinstalling CF to be sure it was included in my installation. i'm thinking i
may have "checked off" the option by mistake.

that's it. i'm sure i didn't enable RDS on my initial installation. sorry
for the waste of time.

-jc