Can't get coldfusion to work on Vista Ultimate

Question

Need help, tried other stuff on other postings trying to edit
jrundll file that doesn't seem to exist
I'll look at so many places to try and get coldfusion 7 or 8
to work with IIS or Apache on Windows Vista Ultimate which came
pre-loaded with the new laptop.
It just gives me a 404 error complaining about the MIME
types.
I saw one forum that I need to edit the wcnfiguration.config
files (some name similar to that) in the system 32 interdel folder,
but I get an access denied error when trying to edit in
notepad....even though I am logged in as the administrator.
The index page for coldfusion works afte the install as well
as IIS 7.0 is working fine, but when trying to execute a .cfm fikle
it just gives that 404 error and doesn't seem to recognise the .cfm
file. I tried adding the CFM in MIME types in IIS admin and
selected coldfusion/application but it didn't work. I then changed
the CFM descrip to text/html (something like that) and it then
launched the cfm file and showed the html part of it, but didn't
process the coldfusion. It may be a simple MIME configuiration
problem in IIS, but I don't know what types should be there and
what the type descriptions need to be.
If anyone can help me with this, I really need the help to
get this to work with Vista. If you have instructions, can you
really spell it out for me please with as much step by step
instructions as possible please, I want to be sure to do it right.
Thank you so much for your help, I really need it!
David

Answer 1

David,
ColdFusion 8 should work with Vista on IIS 7without any
tweaks.
Ken Ford
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Fordwebs, LLC
http://www.fordwebs.com
"davepevans" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> Need help, tried other stuff on other postings trying to
edit jrundll file that
> doesn't seem to exist
>
> I'll look at so many places to try and get coldfusion 7
or 8 to work with IIS
> or Apache on Windows Vista Ultimate which came
pre-loaded with the new laptop.
>
> It just gives me a 404 error complaining about the MIME
types.
> I saw one forum that I need to edit the
wcnfiguration.config files (some name
> similar to that) in the system 32 interdel folder, but I
get an access denied
> error when trying to edit in notepad....even though I am
logged in as the
> administrator.
>
> The index page for coldfusion works afte the install as
well as IIS 7.0 is
> working fine, but when trying to execute a .cfm fikle it
just gives that 404
> error and doesn't seem to recognise the .cfm file. I
tried adding the CFM in
> MIME types in IIS admin and selected
coldfusion/application but it didn't work.
> I then changed the CFM descrip to text/html (something
like that) and it then
> launched the cfm file and showed the html part of it,
but didn't process the
> coldfusion. It may be a simple MIME configuiration
problem in IIS, but I don't
> know what types should be there and what the type
descriptions need to be.
>
> If anyone can help me with this, I really need the help
to get this to work
> with Vista. If you have instructions, can you really
spell it out for me please
> with as much step by step instructions as possible
please, I want to be sure to
> do it right.
>
> Thank you so much for your help, I really need it!
>
> David
>