Comments on: How I installed ColdFusion 8 on Mac OS X

By: Tarun Das

Tarun Das — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

while running a CF file in Dreamwaver I am getting error mesage like “An attmept was to access an unnamed file that past its end” message..so anyone have a solutio for the error mesage

By: Alex Sante

Alex Sante — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:00:00 +0000

I was able to get things working after messing around with httpd.config file a bit.

Here’s what I did…

1) I placed my cfide directory under /Applications/xampp/htdocs
2) I changed my DocumentRoot setting to: “DocumentRoot “/Applications/xampp/htdocs”
3) Modified and put index.cfm at the front:

DirectoryIndex index.cfm index.html index.php index.htmls index.htm

Some of this stuff may have been overkill but it worked. Feel free to email me if you need help alex[at]gearsource[dot]com

By: Blake Southwood

Blake Southwood — Thu, 30 Nov 2006 00:00:00 +0000

I just bought CF8 and DWCS3 and installed MySQL5.
No luck getting CF8 to work. Either it’s a path error
or for some unknown reason I can’t get localhost or
even 127.0.0.1 to work. I’ve called Adobe and no answer.
I’ve emailed the world.
I’m a former web developer and I’ve never encournterd this problem before. I have a macbook pro with 10.5.3 and I selected the built in web server after trying Apache first. I’ve followed the instructions in the white books and the Forta volumes and I still can’t get
one line of CF code to work. And I can’t connect to a databas yet. I can’t get the CF Admininistrator to appear either.
Very, very frustrating and dissappointing since this is
clearly a design error.

By: Renaun Erickson

Renaun Erickson — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

You haven’t configured the httpd.conf to properly work with the coldfusion adapter.

By: Susan

Susan — Wed, 30 Nov 2011 00:00:00 +0000

when i try to browse to cf8 admin login it prompts me to download the cfm file, i tried adding index.cfm to httpd.config but no change

By: Phil

Phil — Fri, 30 Nov 2001 00:00:00 +0000

@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.

By: Mike Benner

Mike Benner — Wed, 30 Nov 2005 00:00:00 +0000

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

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 30 Nov 2002 00:00:00 +0000

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

By: Anita Austin

Anita Austin — Sun, 30 Nov 2008 00:00:00 +0000

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?

By: Renaun Erickson

Renaun Erickson — Tue, 30 Nov 2010 00:00:00 +0000

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.