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• 1. skippy dickerson  |  2007-08-08 at 2.29 am

  Thanks for the post…can you point me to a tutorial on installing apache on mac os10.

  I come from the PC side and apache on a mac has me more frustrated than a fat girl in a victoria secrets.

• 2. Tech Messages | 2007-08-0&hellip  |  2007-08-10 at 6.02 pm

  [...] Renaun Erickson » How I installed ColdFusion 8 on Mac OS X - A fairly detailed walk-through of the vagaries of installing ColdFusion on Mac OS X. [...]

• 3. Renaun Erickson  |  2007-08-11 at 12.39 am

  The steps for installing Apache through XAMPP is very easy and found on their site.

• 4. dave  |  2007-08-16 at 6.50 am

  thanks for the guidlines for installing coldfusion over xammp, coldfusion pages are now rendering but had a little problem that all my php have stopped rendering. Can’t figure out whats been changed i guess its the http.conf file… any ideas what to do

  cheers
  dave

• 5. Renaun Erickson  |  2007-08-16 at 9.37 am

  What is the value of your DocumentRoot in the http.conf?
  I assume you haven’t touched the http.conf? Where did you place the CFIDE folder?

• 6. Doron Katz  |  2007-08-22 at 9.22 am

  I got an error when i loaded the wizard after installation stating : You don’t have permission to access /CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm on this server.

  Is there something else im supposed to set as well?

• 7. Renaun Erickson  |  2007-08-22 at 9.30 am

  This sounds like an Apache permissions error. Make sure your DocumentRoot directive is set to your path to CFIDE. By default XAMPP will define the DocumentRoot to something like “/Applications/xampp/htdocs/”. And then check the actually permissions on the files to make sure the user running Apache has perssions to access the files (less likely the issue).

• 8. Doron Katz  |  2007-08-22 at 10.55 am

  Hi Renaun. I checked the httpd, and I did set it up to my location “/Library/WebServer/Documents”. Still get the 403 forbidden. Checked the xampp conrol panel –> Starting XAMPP for MacOS X 0.6.3…
  XAMPP: XAMPP-Apache is already running.
  XAMPP: Starting MySQL…
  XAMPP: XAMPP-ProFTPD is already running.
  XAMPP for MacOS X started.

  I also checked the folder permissions for Documents, it has System, I changed to appserver, still get the forbidden error. I think im running apache 1.3.x, not sure if that’s an issue.

• 9. Ken DeBlieu  |  2007-08-27 at 8.18 pm

  Hi Renaun,
  I was able to load CF 8 using your instructions but had to us apache 2.052 since I have a Powerbook g4 ppc. I cannot get a connection with the apache server. I did not touch the config files. Can you give me some help?
  Thanks.

• 10. Renaun Erickson  |  2007-08-27 at 9.13 pm

  @Doron If you are running 1.3.x you might have Mac’s apache version running. Check this by going to System Preferences -> Sharing -> Services. Under the “Select a service to change its settings” list box make sure “Personal Web Sharing” is turned off.

  @Ken also confirm that you are not running the default Mac apache. Expound on “cannot get a connection”. Is apache running? can you server a basic html page?

• 11. Ken DeBlieu  |  2007-08-28 at 4.56 am

  I’m not running the default apache. The running question is something that may be the problem. I start apache from the system preferences window. I confirms it is running, but when I open a page on localhost/~deblieu, I get a server not found error.
  I have uninstalled and re-installed apache several days ago.
  Thanks for the response.
  Ken

• 12. Lacey  |  2007-10-30 at 9.50 pm

  I did exactly what you said, but why do I keep getting a 404 error?

  XAMMP installed correctly…

  When I clicked on “Launch CF Admin…” I got a 404 error, The requested URL /CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm was not found on this server.

  Why is this happening? I appreciate your help, thank you!

• 13. Kent  |  2007-11-09 at 6.25 pm

  Renaun,

  First, thanks for posting this method. I really like the idea of using XAMPP with ColdFusion.

  Regrettably, it doesn’t seem to work with Leopard. I feel as if I’ve tried every imaginable JRUN configuration (i.e., with/without LifeCycle, Docs, RDS), as well as the same set of variables with CF MX7, plus CF8 and the version of Apache that comes with Leopard. In all cases, I have yet to see the CF administrator screen. The most common error message is:

  You successfully completed the first step in installing
  Adobe ColdFusion 8.

  However, the Adobe ColdFusion 8 service does not appear
  to be running, the web server connectors did not install
  successfully, and the web server and/or website could not
  be reached on port 80. Possible reasons include the Adobe
  ColdFusion 8 service failed to start, the 2902 or 51020
  ports are blocked, or the web server and/or website is not
  running or is not configured to listen on port 80 (in which
  case this is not an error).

  Do the following to complete the installation:

  1) Consult the Installation Guide about how to manually
  configure the web server connector
  2) Ensure that any firewall software blocking ports 2902 or
  51020 is disabled
  3) Ensure that the Adobe ColdFusion8 service is started
  4) Manually configure your web server connectors
  5) Ensure that your web server and websites are started
  6) Continue your installation by logging in to the Configuration
  Wizard at http://localhost:80/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

  After one of the CF8 installs, I was able to confirm that XAMPP and CF were running but when I pointed the browser at the CF Admin index.cfm page, the browser would attempt to “download” the file (both FireFox and Safari did this).

  On another occasion (CF8 - JRUN, Leopard, XAMPP), I got the same 404 message reported above.

  Any ideas?

• 14. Tony  |  2008-02-02 at 7.49 am

  I’m in the same boat as Kent. I’ve also got Leopard on an Intel mac mini. I installed XAMPP fine, I’m also able to access its control panel using http://localhost:80. When I try http://localhost:80/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm my browser downloads the file as index.cfm.class into my downloads directory. So I can’t access the CF admin.

  Why are .cfm files not recognized after CF has been installed?

  Thanks.

• 15. Renaun Erickson  |  2008-02-02 at 11.55 am

  if the cfm’s are not being recognized, the the Apache’s httpd.conf was not setup properly. Do you have the AddType .cfm code, and if so, then it might be the mod_jrun20.so module. What version of Apache is on the XAMPP version you installed?

  The mod_jrun module has to be compiled for the right Apache version and I can’t remember what ColdFusion supports. I believe there was a bug with the module and Apache 2.2, but there was a technote or update about it i believe.

• 16. Anita Austin  |  2008-02-22 at 9.15 am

  I have been using CF8 on my MacBook Pro for several months.

  Last night I installed the “Security Update 2008-001 (Universal)” (1.0). I can’t get .cfm files to run.

  The ColdfusionLauncher, says it has started, but I can’t bring up anything at
  http://localhost.com:8501/

  Has anyone else had this problem?

• 17. Paul  |  2008-02-23 at 3.25 pm

  Worked perfectly on a fresh OSX 10.5.2 install. Much much easier then any other guide I have seen.

• 18. Mike Benner  |  2008-03-06 at 6.54 pm

  Does anyone have a solution for the downloading. I am new to Apache and am not sure how to set the config file properly.

• 19. Phil  |  2008-04-18 at 2.23 pm

  @Kent & @ Tony - Uninstall your CF 8. Go back to Adobe and download the installer again. It’s now CF 8.0.1. I tried to install 8 as you did and had the same issue. After uninstalling it, restarting that issue doesn’t happen.

  Due to previous bad installs, I tried to install this with XAMPP. It goes pretty smooth. My only issues is the “Forbidden” error when i try to get to the CFadmin as @Doron has. So if sombody figured that out, let me know.

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