ColdFusion 11 new installation; service won't start on 2008 R2

Question

I've just installed ColdFusion 11 on a clean Windows Server 2008 R2 machine and the ColdFusion application service looks like it starts, but then a minute later, shows that it is not running (in the services panel). When I try to restart it, it simply will not start. It comes back with the typical error "This application took too long to respond..." so now it just hangs in a "starting" state. I've rebooted the server several times, there is nothing else running on the server. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks.

Answer 1

OK, to confirm:
My ColdFusion Administrator already has an internal webserver, so port 8500 is already enabled.
I placed a silly hello world cfm file at the wwwroot level, and yes, it has some cf code in it.
entered http://localhost:8500/index.cfm and it processed the cfm page just fine.
I already had a test website with this test index.cfm hello world file in it.
It is connected with the wsconfig for coldfusion 11 to IIS 7.5.  cf handlers are there.  cfide and jakarta links are created.
I run the page http://127.0.0.1/index.cfm
get the following error message:
HTTP Error 404.7 – Not Found.  The request filtering module is configured to deny the file extension.
Module                RequestFilteringModule                               Requested URL                 http://localhost:80/jakarta/isapi_redirect.dll
Notification        BeginRequest                                                    Physical Path                      D:\ColdFusion11\config\wsconfig\2\isapi_redirect.dll
Handler                ISAPI-dll                                                               LogonMethod                   Not yet determined
Error Code          0x00000000                                                         Logon User                         Not yet determined
Most likely causes:
Request filtering is configured for the Web server and the file extension for this request is explicitly denied.
Things you can try:
Verify the configuration/sustem.webServer/security/requestFiltering/fileExtensions settings in applicationhist.config and web.config.
If I go to applicationhost.config or web.config everything is set to allow for the coldfusion extensions.  Going to IIS UI,  Request Filtering, the coldfusion extensions are all set to true. If I change the Request Filtering Feature Settings and allow unlisted file name extensions then it will work, but that is not an option for our hyper secure website.
Thanks for your continuted help!
Jennifer