Once and for All ---- Please

Question

Hello all,
I have used CF for several years now and bought Flex as soon
as it was released. In my process of understanding how Flex handled
Remote objects for CF I decided to use the CF Builder wizard for
Flex that creates all kinds of nice CFC's and stuff for me to
connect to a database and CRUD the data within. Ok all fine and
dandy on the local machine, works great, I am impressed! That is
until I try to upload the app to my Shared Server (HMS) and I get
all kinds of cryptic error messages like:
(mx:rpc:Fault)#0 error id = 0
faultCode ='Client.Error.MessageSend"
faultDetail = "Channel.Connect.Failed error
NetConnection.Call.Failed :HTTP:Status 500"
faultString = "Send Failed"
message = "faultCode.Client.Error.MessageSend
faultString:'Send Failed'
faultDetail:'Channel.Connect.Failed error
NetConnection.CallFailed: HTTP: Status 500" name = "Error"
rootCause = (Object)#1
code = NetConnection.Call.Failed"
description = "HTTP: Status 500"
details = "
http://www.MYDOMIAN.com/flex2gateway/"
level = "error"
So I have read the DOCs and read all the blogs I can find on
the subject but no one can clearly answer as to why I can not make
this work on a Shared Server if I can make it work on my local box,
Heck I can even tap into the MySQL database on the Shared Server
via the Flex builder. I use HostMySite.com with the CF package if
that helps.
If it is just a matter of something on my hosts end I need
them to configure for me that would be nice to know, or if I simply
can't use Flex and CF together on a Shared Server all together.
That would be nice to know. But for all the hype Flex is getting
and how easy it supposed to be to create an app with CF, I am
wondering why someone can not answer this question once and for
all. I know others have posted to this and many other forums asking
the same things I am. Is it too much to ask one of the Flex Gurru's
of Adobe, or anywhere else for that matter to help us out?
Not everyones wants to run their own server and I would think
that Adobe would have kept that in mind when creating Flex, and how
it would run on shared servers.
So please if anyone can help understand this please let me
know.
Thanks

Answer 1

Halodev / Peter,
I was JUST about to ask the same question. The problem I was
having was migrating a Flex app created on my local machine,
connecting with my local CF app, to a test (model of production)
server.
I knew the following:
1) The flex app worked as expected
2) The data was not an issue, as I mapped a datasource to my
production DB
My main concern was getting the Flex app to work on the test
server, but my biggest issue was the fact that the setup of my
local and test servers are different. Example, I have a single
instance locally, running off localhost. On my test server, I have
multiple JRUN instances on the D-drive (as opposed to the c-drive,
locally).
From this post, I figured out that I needed to change the
project properties to account for the different location of the
flex-config file. I right clicked on the project and selected
properties, and altered the values in the "Flex Compiler" and "Flex
Server" sections to reflect the TEST server locations of the
flex-config file.
Now, to make life hard on myself, the "d" drive on my laptop
is the CD ROM, and when I tried to enter the path in FB, I got an
error saying that the path was invalid. I looked into partitioning
my drive, but I was warned off it by our tech guy here (besides, it
seemed too much like real work!). SO, I burned a CD with the proper
path, just as a temporary solution.
I re-built the app, and deployed ALL of the files in the
local projects "bin" directory. It worked, eventually, but there
are some questions I have, maybe, Peter, if you read this you could
help.
1) I had trouble with SSL - my test servers use them (as do
the production servers). The SWF started to load but I got a 403
error (that is SSL related, I believe). I'm not sure if that was
when it was loading, or trying to access the CFC. Any thoughts on
this? Are there known SSL issues?
2) The whole "D" drive thing was a pain. As I mentioned, I
have multpile JRUN instances on my Test (and Dev) server - one for
each site. If I created a single generic site on the c-drive, would
all sites that access flex be able to use that flex-config file, or
do they need to access the local file? I'm not really getting how
the flex services-config.xml file relates. Maybe I'll re-read your
posts in this thread.
3) Do I need to copy all the files from the bin directory, or
is that over-kill? What is the bare-minimum code I need to get the
Flex SWF to run? Could I just copy a sub-set of the HTML to a
content management system?
Any help with the above is appreciated.
I'm not sure if I answered the original question, or
contributed positively to this post - I hope I did, and that
someone will find this information useful in the future.
Cheers guys,
David