Today we installed ColdFusion 8 Beta (get it now on labs.adobe.com) on RedHat/CentOS 5 (within VMWare Fusion 4 Beta) and run into some troubles. The problem was that the installer did not configure the connector to Apache 2.2.x correctly and when you tried to log on to the CF Administration you did not get the expected welcome screen.
The solution to this is to run the Apache Connector again, but with some modification.
- Go into the ColdFusion installation directory (/opt/coldfusion8) and then to the “connectors” directory. Open up the file “apache_connector.sh” and set the paths to your apache installation correct.
- Install the httpd-devel package. To do so, enter the terminal and execute the command “yum install httpd-devel*”. Without it the script above fails to run.
Once the above steps are done you can run the script with “./apache_connector.sh” and everything will be setup and your ColdFusion will be happy to serve you.
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