Coldfusion will not install on a Windows 2008 Standard server for IIS 7.0 running in VMWare.

[Jim_Gillon]

At the final step "Configure Web Servers/Websites", it complains that  - "Cannot configure IIS Connector. Enable the required options, ASP.NET, CGI,...".  But, all ASP.NET, CGI, and ISAPI connectors are installed and configured.  We have installed Coldfusion on over 40 servers, from version 7 through 11, and have not seen this problem before.

[Anit_Kumar]

Hi Jim,

Please ensure all of these IIS features are enabled:

• ASP.NET
• CGI
• ISAPI Extensions
• ISAPI Filters

The above options can be installed, by following the steps mentioned under Installing IIS Features on Windows 7 at http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/hh167503(v=nav.70).aspx

Regards,

Anit Kumar

[Jim_Gillon]

Thanks for the quick response.  Each of the IIS features are installed and configured to match a test server at our office.  The test server is successfully running Coldfusion 11 in a Windows 2008 R2 Server (the differences are the R2 and that the other system is running under VMWare and that we upgraded the test server from Coldfusion 9 to 10 and from 10 to 11).  The server we cannot install - at a customer site - is a new installation.  The Coldfusion installation succeeds if we choose the default Apache server (which will not work for our product [www.intellipadcrm.com]) - but will not install for IIS.

Jim Gillon

[Anit_Kumar · Accepted solution]

Hi Jim,

You get that error only if the above IIS features are not installed. I am sure that, you are launching the web server config tool as an admin, although, that should not contribute.

Can you take a screen shot for these IIS features and share it.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

[Jim_Gillon]

Hello Anit,

Thanks for your continued interest in sorting this out.  We have spent about a day of effort so far without success…

The screen images for what seems to be relative are as follows:

When I clicked on the Browse Web Site choice above, the following error message is shown (this is after I uninstalled the Apache version of CF11)

Jim Gillon

President

Versys Software, Inc.

[Anit_Kumar]

Jim,

I can't see the images. Not even in a different browser. Can you re-post.

We may have to get a deeper look into the server configuration. Can you send an email to cfinstal@adobe.com, referencing this thread.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

Note:- I have edited your post and remove your personal information

[Anit_Kumar]

Hi Jim,

We received your screen shots. The screen shots are missing the IIS features from IIS installation?

Regards,

Anit Kumar

[Jim_Gillon]

Anit,

The missing image for installed features is attached. We also just tried to install CF10 on a different Windows 2008 Standard 64bit platform – also with IIS 7.0 – and the CF10 installation fails there with the same error message.

Jim Gillon

[cmccowan]

I had this problem.  Fixed it by using   Server Manager -> Roles ->  Web Server  -> (Right Click) Add Role -> cgi

[mtnhomes]

This worked perfectly on first try. Thanks

[deema0]

Hello All. i have installed all these features, but still the same issue. Any workaround?

windows 2008 + cfusion11