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CF 11 Invalid Password for Administrator

Explorer ,
Apr 02, 2015 Apr 02, 2015

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I am trying to install CF 11 on a  windows 2008 R2 Standard SP 1 server (This is a new server that does not have any websites on it yet). The initial install has no errors and ask if you want to finish the install by going to the administrator. I click ok. It goes to https://hostname/CFIDE/administrator/enter.cfm

The webpage it goes to is titled "Configuration and Settings Migration Wizard" "

ColdFusion has been successfully installed. This wizard will
guide you through the remaining server configuration steps and, if applicable,
migrate settings from a previous version of ColdFusion.

To guarantee the security of your server, please enter your
ColdFusion Administrator password. "

I type in my password and it says it is invalid... I KNOW it is correct. I have uninstalled CF twice now with the same results. The page looks a bit odd though. The box is blue and the text is black. Making it hard to read. The test also looks to be pushed down a bit (Like an image would go there, but there isn't anything there other than the space) and there is another space on the left side as well.

I have used IE and Chrome. Same problem.

I checked to make sure JavaScript was enabled and it was...

I have read about having it be a "trusted site". I did that. Didn't work.

I read "

Assume your website web.config file added additional mime types for file extensions .less and .ttf.

  • <staticContent>
  • <mimeMap fileExtension=".less" mimeType="text/plain" />
  •         <mimeMap fileExtension=".ttf" mimeType="text/plain" />
  • </staticContent>

"

I don't know where the web.config file is... So I don't know if this is a problem or not. Can someone tell me where I can find this. I searched in the ColdFusion11 Folder and didn't find it.

I have never had this much trouble installing CF before.

Can anyone help?

Thank you in advance.

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Adobe Employee , Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

For the first option, launch IIS and expand your Sites. Then right click on that particular site and select "explore". This will open your webroot for that particular website. Check for the existence of web.config and rename it.

For the second one, take a back of your server.xml and then replace the above segment (posted by you), by the below segment.

<!-- internal webserver start internal webserver end -->

    <Connector port="8500" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
    

...

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Community Beginner ,
Apr 06, 2015 Apr 06, 2015

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I just dealt with this recently as well.  When you installed, did you specify the IP Address range for Administrator access?  If so, and you did not specify 127.0.0.1 for the local address, you'll need to complete the process from a browser in the ip address range you specified, in my case it was 192.168.20.* so I went to my broswer not on the localhost, and typed the url http://serveraddress/CFIDE/enter.cfm

I hope that helps.

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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I chose the secure server profile the first time I installed. I have since uninstalled and reinstalled with the plain server configuration which does not allow you to enter an ip address. However with this being said, I have tried all kinds of combinations of ip address all returning with the same result. Invalid Password, Try again...

I have also disabled Symantec to see if that had anything to do with it. No luck there either. I have tried IE, Chrome, & FireFox browsers. No Luck.

Did your administrator log in page appear odd? Mine is a navy blue with black text. No graphics on it. Did yours look like that?

Thank you for your help. Keep giving me suggestions, please.

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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This might be due to the mimeType extension in the web.config.

Can you give this a go:

  • Navigate to the webroot of your site.
  • Take a backup of web.config and open it with text editor (notepad etc)
  • Comment the entry for mimeType extension of ".air" like <!--<mimeMap fileExtension=".air" mimeType="application/vnd.adobe.air-application-installer-package+zip" />-->
  • Save the file and restart IIS.
  • Launch CF Admin and try to login.

You can find the web.config in the root of your site. If you are using IIS and the default website it will usually be in "C:\inetpub\wwwroot", otherwise if you have a separate virtual site setup it will be where ever the root of that is.

Note this is a different MimeType to the one you mentioned in your post.

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Explorer ,
Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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When I go to C:inetpub/wwwroot I do not see a web.config file. I have a folder aspnet_client, iisstart.htm, thumbs.db, welcome.png. Any other suggestions on where I might find it?

Thank you for your help and any suggestions.

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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Do you have any other web sites setup in IIS?

Here are some things Anit has suggested in the past too:

Here are possible workarounds, you may try:-

        Note:- Enabling internal/built port would require a ColdFusion Application Server restart.The possible reason of this behavior is the CFID and CFTOKEN getting changed from the request start to request end. To find the cause, you can try running Charles Tool and follow the below steps:-

  1. First of all stop all http request.
  2. Close all browsers.
  3. Install Charles proxy.
  4. Start Charles proxy.
  5. Requests few times for http request (The CF Admin URL) to record its in-depth in Charles session/file.
  6. Then save those Charles session/file and review them for error/mistake in component and interface.

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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This is a brand new server. It has not had any websites on it.

If I go to server manager/ roles/ webserver (iis). The Internet Information Services (IIS) Manager comes up. On the left of the IIS Manager window I have

Start Page

     Name of my server

     Application Pools

     Sites folder

          Default web site

               aspnet_client folder

               CFIDE folder

               Jakarta folder

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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I have tried alternate browsers. I tried IE, Chrome, & FireFox.

I have tried numerous combinations of the administrator address to log in. None worked. Including what you suggested.

What is the passwordreset.bat? I am not sure what you mean by that.

I have tried to access the server from several different locations including locally and nothing is working.

When you say enable internal/built port, what do you mean? How do you enable it?

I have not installed Charles Proxy.

Anit_Kumar gave me instructions for changing  adminconfig.xml and I am able to get into the admin now. However, it doesn't look right. The images are missing and I did not have to log in to go there. I just don't know what to do from here. Do I change my password, then try and log in? Or do I need to do something else?

I am very grateful for any and all ideas.

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Explorer ,
Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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adminlogin.jpg

This is what the admin login page looks like. Is this what it is supposed to look like?

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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Can you share your adminconfig.xml at \ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib\ ?

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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Explorer ,
Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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Here is the adminconfig.xml

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<setupconfig>

    <runsetupwizard>true</runsetupwizard>

    <runmigrationwizard>false</runmigrationwizard>

    <runmxmigrationwizard>false</runmxmigrationwizard>

    <runsecureprofile>false</runsecureprofile>

    <migratecf10>false</migratecf10>

    <migratecf9>false</migratecf9>

    <setupoptions>

        <sampleapps>false</sampleapps>

        <odbc>true</odbc>

        <enablerds>false</enablerds>

    </setupoptions>

</setupconfig>

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Adobe Employee ,
Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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Take a backup of your adminconfig.xml at \ColdFusion11\cfusion\lib\ and replace it with the text below.

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<setupconfig>

    <runsetupwizard>false</runsetupwizard>

    <runmigrationwizard>false</runmigrationwizard>

    <runmxmigrationwizard>false</runmxmigrationwizard>

    <runsecureprofile>false</runsecureprofile>

    <migratecf10>false</migratecf10>

    <migratecf9>false</migratecf9>

    <setupoptions>

        <sampleapps>false</sampleapps>

        <odbc>true</odbc>

        <enablerds>false</enablerds>

    </setupoptions>

</setupconfig>

Restart CF11 Application Service and access your CF Admin.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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Explorer ,
Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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I changed the file you suggested. I AM able to get into the administrator. However it didn't ask me to log in, it just went directly to the administrator. It also look odd. Like images are missing...

What should I do now?

This is further than I have gotten so far.

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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Under the CF Admin, go to Security > Administrator and select "". Setup a new password. Once you log out, you should be able to login with the new password only.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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SIGH.... I changed the password and set it to single password only. Saved it. It said it was saved. Logged out. Tried to log in with the new password, it Didn't work. It says Invalid Password. Please try again.

This log in page looks different than the one I had originally. It has a textbox for user name which is greyed out and can't be changed, with 'admin' entered in it.  What do you suggest now?

Here is what the admin looks like now.

admin image.jpg

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The page looks different and the images are missing, due to incorrect connector configuration. Could you please remove the connector and recreate it.

Remember, the Connector tool should be launched with Administrator privileges.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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Ok, This is what was originally showing.

Image1.jpg

I clicked it and then clicked the remove button. It was removed.

Then I restarted ColdFusion. I'm not sure I needed to, but I did. So I went back to the configuration tool and clicked the "Add" button. This is what it looks like.


Image2.jpg

Should I change anything or just click OK? The AppServer Cluster dropdown box has nothing in it.

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Yes, All looks good. Go ahead

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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I did add the connector. I then restarted ColdFusion and I can NOT log back into the administrator.

Anything else?

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Can you share the URL, you are trying?

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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Apr 07, 2015 Apr 07, 2015

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So, you have got two options from here.

Navigate to the webroot for http://pactnew.tarleton.edu/ and rename the web.config to web.config_old and restart IIS. Check your CF Admin.

OR


Enable internal/built port for ColdFusion and then try http://localhost:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm, where 8500 is the internal port for ColdFusion. Check your CF Admin.


Note:- Enabling internal/built port would require a ColdFusion Application Server restart.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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For the first option, I went to C/inetpub/wwwroot and I don't see a web.config file. Is this the correct location to find this file. If not, could you tell me where it is at?

As for the second option. I don't know how to enable it. I went to c/coldfusion11/cfusion/runtime/conf/server.xml. I opened the server.xml file with notepad. What do I change here?

<!-- internal webserver start
    <Connector port="8500" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8447" />
    internal webserver end -->

    <!-- A "Connector" using the shared thread pool-->
    <!--
    <Connector executor="tomcatThreadPool"
               port="8500" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8447" />
    -->

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For the first option, launch IIS and expand your Sites. Then right click on that particular site and select "explore". This will open your webroot for that particular website. Check for the existence of web.config and rename it.

For the second one, take a back of your server.xml and then replace the above segment (posted by you), by the below segment.

<!-- internal webserver start internal webserver end -->

    <Connector port="8500" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8447" />
   

    <!-- A "Connector" using the shared thread pool-->
    <!--
    <Connector executor="tomcatThreadPool"
               port="8500" protocol="HTTP/1.1"
               connectionTimeout="20000"
               redirectPort="8447" />
    -->

Note:- Changes made to web.config would need IIS restart and changes made to server.xml would require ColdFusion Application Server restart.

Regards,

Anit Kumar

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That did the trick!!! I am able to log in and all the images are there. Is there anything else I need to do in order to complete the install?

I am so thankful for your help! Thank you so much.

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