Coldfusion broke and i can't fix it.

Question

ehllo all,
I had the developers addition of coldfusion mx7 installed. I
use windows xp running with apache 1.3 server and it was working
just fine. Then I went and destroyed some key files on my server
whops
reinstalled the server but can't seam to get
coldfusion working again i tried uninstalling it and installing it,
about 12 times, but it doesn’t want to work for me. when i
reinstall it dose not create the cfmx directory?
Any help at all would be greatly appreciated
karmapool

Answer 1

adam thanks for the direction
here is were it lead me...
Coldfusion is not reinstalling at all. Apache is running fine
with PHP and mySQL. Going through the install wizard it never makes
it to the server configuration page (it just skips it?) there is an
install log created and I took a closer look at it.
Install Directory: C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local
Settings\Temp\7433.tmp\
Status: SUCCESSFUL
Additional Notes: NOTE - Directory already existed
There seams to be several files been left behind in the
directory
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\
• hsperfdata_Owner(folder)
• persistent_state
• 1416.tmp (folder)—always diff 4 nums—
• .com.zerog.registry.xml
• .cleanup.tmp(folder)
• removefiles.txttemp
strange thing at first I deleted the entire directory. It
then moved where it was installing the files to C:\Temp\ I deleted
this directory too. It then started installing the files into
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\ didn’t want to delete this
directory because of other key files so I created another
C:\Documents and Settings\Owner\Local Settings\Temp\ directory and
it started installing them in there again
another strange thing is some where along the line of going
through the install wizard I did make it to the configure server
page. Thought I had it but I had installed a version of apache that
it didn’t like so I had to start over and never made it back
final strange thing is a I tried coldfusion MX6 and the
installer always says to pick another directory to unpack in wont
even launch any more
I think it maybe because my hard drive is almost full I am
going to delete some things then defragment it
Cheers,
Karmapool