Page /home.cfm [C:\railo\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\home.cfm] not found

[Nicholas Bostaph]

I recently installed a fresh copy of Win2008 server with IIS 7.  Then installed the newest version of Railo.  During setup I left the webroot pointing to its default, but I keep most of my own sites in a different folder: "c:\sites\".

I created a new website pointing to a subfolder at "c:\sites\website".  In IIS I added "home.cfm" as a default document and it's been inherited by my new site.  When I try to access my website via a domain name I get the error in the title: "Page /home.cfm [C:\railo\tomcat\webapps\ROOT\home.cfm] not found".  The file home.cfm does exist in "c:\sites\website\", which is the home directory in IIS for that site.  But for some reason Railo is looking in the wrong place.

Railo admin works just fine via both 127.0.0.1 and localhost.

I believe I set everything up the way I did on my old server, also running the same versions of Windows, IIS, and Railo.  On that server I could just create new sites on the fly and never needed to change anything in Railo or Tomcat to let them know where my site's root folders were; it was just picked up from the IIS config.  What could be causing this problem on the new server, and how do I set it up correctly for not just this site, but the many other sites I need to add going forward?

[Nando Breiter]

Nicholas,

Sideways, but have you heard of Lucee?

Aria Media Sagl

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skype: ariamedia

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[Nicholas Bostaph]

Thanks for the response Nando.

I have heard of Lucee.  I haven't had any time to really look into it yet, and needed to get this new server up and running as quickly as possible.  So I decided to just stick with the same versions of everything that I've been using.  It's been working well enough for me so far.

I managed to partly solve my problem.  In server.xml I added a new host entry for every website that I created.  This appears to work, but it's an inconvenience to have to do every time I create a new site.  I'd welcome any thoughts on how to get around the manual process.  For others who may be stuck with a similar problem that happen across this thread:

      <Host name="localhost" appBase="webapps">

<Context path="" docBase="C:\inetpub\wwwroot\" />

      </Host>

<Host name="nightscapecreations.com" appBase="webapps"

    unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"

    xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

    <Context path="" docBase="d:\sites\NSC\" />

    <Alias>*.nightscapecreations.com</Alias>

</Host>

<Host name="wheredidmytaxesgo.com" appBase="webapps"

    unpackWARs="true" autoDeploy="true"

    xmlValidation="false" xmlNamespaceAware="false">

    <Context path="" docBase="C:\Sites\WDMTG\" />

    <Alias>www.wheredidmytaxesgo.com</Alias>

    <Alias>wheredidmytaxesgo.org</Alias>

    <Alias>www.wheredidmytaxesgo.org</Alias>

    <Alias>wheredomytaxesgo.org</Alias>

    <Alias>www.wheredomytaxesgo.org</Alias>

</Host>

...and so on...

[Nando Breiter]

Nicholas,

See http://www.modcfml.org/ - seems like what you need, although I always configure server.xml manually. 

n.

Aria Media Sagl

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[Nicholas Bostaph]

Thanks; I really appreciate it.

It's weird.  I know that I never touched server.xml before, but my old server worked fine with 15 or so sites, so it must have been automatic at some point.  I'm curious why it didn't work after the move.  Is this kind of thing not needed if your websites are in your IIS webroot?

Nicholas

[Nando Breiter]

Afaik, Tomcat needs configuration, either hard coded in server.xml, or in memory via mod CFL.

Aria Media Sagl

+41 91 600 9601

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