NEW to Cold Fusion 1

[HashMan007]

Hi All;
I have a webserver with 2 partitions to the hard drive (c: and E. C: partition is where my OS (Win2k, Inetput, and coldfusion Resides). E: partition is where my Website content reside (all my .htm, .html, .asp, .cfm) and when I executed my .cfm files they do not work properly and when I move the website to c:\inetpub\

http://wwwroot

directory it works like a charm. Does anybody have an idea why it is doing this?? Like I said I am new to Cold Fusion.....so.....HELLP!!!
(and I do create a new website to point to my website in the E: drive)
-Thankx

 

[CFDude]

What happens when you try to run it off the E:? Any errors or anything?

My first guess is that it is a rights issue. Do you have the Cold Fusion service running under a particular account?
If so, make sure that the user it is running under has rights to that directory.

Also make sure that the IUSER_(machine) and IWAM_(machine) user accounts has rights to that directory as well.

 

[HashMan007]

Thanks CFdude, I check the properties for the Inetpub folder and compared its permission with my website folder and they both have identical permission. And I am not getting any errors it just won't work.

 

[Silvano]

you said that when you move files from

http://wwwroot

folder the site does not work; have you created the virtual directory for the folder where you are moving the files to?
you can do that through Microsoft Management Console or right click on the folder > properties and set the Web Sharing properties and then test it:

http://localhost/folder/filename.cfm

Sylvano
dsylvano@hotmail.com

 

[CFDude]

When you say it won't work, what do you mean? When you request a .cfm file in the new directory, what happens? Do you get a prompt to download something, or 404 not found, or what?

As a test, put a test.htm file in that directory and request that -- does that show up?

wwebspider might be on the right track -- go into IIS, bring up the web site -- you should see the pages in the directory -- right click on a file and click browse. Does that bring it up?