Multi-instance Install for CF 8

Question

Hey all,
so we have installed CF 8 for multi instance. The main
instance will show up fine in the browser, but any additional
instances will not show up correctly. Either the instance shows a
blank white screen, or it gives a page not found.
We are setting up virtual sites in IIS to set the new file
locations.
Need help badly with this!!
thanks
Dan

Answer 1

First check that the ColdFusion instances are properly
running. If you
go to the instance manager of the main 'cfusion' instance,
where you
created all the sub-instances, you should be able to click on
the icon
that links to each instances ColdFusion Administrator. When
you do this
you are going to get pages using IP address and ports in the
URL bar of
your browser.
If that works. Can you access static HTML content in each of
your
virtual servers? Reading your last post, I suspect this might
the be
the source of your problem. When you run mutiple websites
from the same
server, each site must have separate addresses. This can be
done with
IP addresses, ports or host-headers. Making this work is
going to
involve configuration in IIS and|or your domains Domain Name
Server.
If you can get to the ColdFusion Administration Application
of all your
instances and you can get to static content in each of your
virtual web
sites, then there maybe other problems preventing the web
sites and
ColdFusion working together. But confirm those two things
first.