Cannot get IIS to publish CF Administrator!! Darkman! HELP!

[silicongelica]

Ok, the web-server is running NT 4.O, IIS, and SP 4. It is currently serving our web-site (I've designed us a new one).
It is doing fine, but the old site is ASP. I have installed CF server twice, but have never been able to get the CF administrator to launch. I have walked through Allaire's steps in all of their related Knowledge base articles (there aren't enough of them) and am not finding my answer. On my development machine (same OS) I am able to serve my new site and launch the administrator, but on my dev-machine, in MMC, it shows underneath the web-site, the CFdocs and CFide folders, with little globes on them. On the real NT server, in MMC, I see the default web-site, but then the CFdocs and CFide folders are just plain folders. What is up? Please, please help...

 

[GunJack]

It sounds like your virtual directories didn't get created correctly or either they don't have execute permissions. I would first verify that CF is installed and running. If you see "Cold Fusion Applicaton Server" listed under your services and it's showing started, then it should just be a matter of fixing your virtual directories.

I don't do a lot with the MMC so I'm not familiar with all the settings but you should be able to right click on your website and then choose new->virtual directory. Enter "cfide" for the alias and then browse to the "cfide" directory. Make sure you give it script access and that should be all you need. The url for accessing the administrator would then be Your.IP.Address/cfide/administrator/index.cfm

I think that should fix it but I'm not near as familiar with the MMC as I am with the old IIS 3.0 admin tool.

GJ

 

[silicongelica]

Thanks Gun Jack, I've gotten CF Server Administrator to come up and publish, but now when I hit the site from anywhere, it asks for my Network name and Password!!
Anybody know how to tackle that one? Thanks!

 

[GunJack]

That sounds like a file permissions problem. Is it just the CF Admin or is it any page on your site? I'm guessing CF or IIS doesn't have permission to read the pages you are attempting to view. I would check to see who has rights to the affected directories.

GJ