Problems installing coldfusion server 5 after uninstalling cfmx

[NewFromMattel]

Hello all.

I had coldfusion cfmx developer edition installed, but all our existing code was written for 5.x. I was just checking to see how many problems we were going to have. I have decided to remove cfmx from my machine and go back to cf server 5. But now I can't seem to get cfserver 5 to install correctly. I don't get any errors, but when I try to go to

http://127.0.0.1/cfide/administrator/index.cfm,

it prompts me to download the file! If I choose open instead of download, it opens the file in cfstudio. Very strange. Any ideas? This is not a production server, just my local development server.

Thanks
Divermarv

 

[csteinhilber]

The problem is with your web server, not ColdFusion (more than likely).

The web server doesn't understand that it's supposed to pass off .cfm pages to ColdFusion to process.

Usually you can fix this by configuring the web server to recognize .cfm files (generally by adding a MIME type definition)... but the process for doing so varied greatly depending on what web server are you running.

What web server are you running?


-Carl

 

[NewFromMattel]

I'm using version 5.1 on Windows XP.

Thanks

 

[csteinhilber]

Yes, but what web server? The IIS server for Windows, or Apache, or ??



-Carl

 

[NewFromMattel]

Duhhh. Sorry. It's IIS version 5.1 on Windows XP.

 

[csteinhilber]

I haven't set up IIS for quite a while.
Someone else should probably guide you through getting IIS to recognize (and properly act on) .cfm files.


-Carl

 

[NewFromMattel]

Ok. Thanks!

 

[csteinhilber]

If you don't get an answer here any time soon, you might try over in the IIS forum forum41



-Carl