CF 4.5 Administrator not found

Having some issues with getting to the CF Administrator in 4.5. I know 4.5 is old but we had to roll back from MX because CFDEV's ActivEdit tool wasn't working properly in MX. Uninstalled MX and re-installed 4.5 but now we have no access to 4.5 Administrator. Keep getting 'Page cannot be found' errors

I found a similar post here with regards to MX: http://forums.devshed.com/t158015/s.html ... checked the permissions on the CFIDE directory - no restrictions. Pinged 127.0.0.1 and got replies. Everything looks to be in place just can't access CF Admin.

Someone please help us out of this nightmare ....

thanks,
steve

That's bizarre because I don't see what difference the version of CF makes when using ActiveEdit, which is a purely client-side entity.

Can you call any other CF pages or is it just the administrator that isn't working?

I thought the same thing about the ActivEdit, but it wouldn't load on the MX server ... everything was set up as it should have been but it didn't load.

Trying to call the other CFM pages on the websites gave us errors because none of the mappings were set up in the administrator.

I could open up the HTML documents from the CFDOCS directory but clicking to a CFM page actually opened up ColdFusion Studio. Don't get why that was happening either ....

Bizarre pretty much sums it up ... any thoughts on what we might have done wrong?

thanks

Can you confirm that a virtual directory exists in IIS (or whatever web server you are using) that points to the cfide directory?

Yes, there was a virtual directory pointing to CFIDE in IIS 5.0

So if you paste a very simple .cfm page in the cfide directory and call it from a browser, it runs?

Nope, accessing any CFM page opens up ColdFusion Studio to edit the file.

Pretty freaky, ain't it?!

Do you have a script mapping for .cfm pages for that web site in IIS?

Not sure what you mean by script mapping but we do have a mappings.cfm file that holds all the references to the paths we use in our code ...

Is that what you were looking for? I apologize for not quite understanding ...

In IIS if you right click on the web site and choose "Properties" you should get a window with tabs in it to administer that site. Under "Home Directory" should be a button called "Configuration". If you click that it should give you a list of all file extensions and the .dll files that they map to. This is how you tell IIS what to do when it gets to a file extension that it doesn't know. .cfm should be mapped to a .dll file but for CF4.5 I can't remember what .dll file it is, you may need to look in the documentation or Google that. Based on what you are describing I would bet money that you don't have a script mapping defined for .cfm pages.

Checked the configuration and .cfm is mapped to a .dll file

Seems like something is just off that isn't a simple fix. I think our next action is to wipe everything off this server and start again with Win2000 server and then try CFMX 6.1 again. Would you agree with this?

Yes, if the mapping is defined (and it points to a valid dll file), and the virtual directory is set up, and the CF services are running, then I'm out of ideas. CFMX 6.1 is waaay better than CF 4.5 anyway. Hopefully a rebuilt will kick it back into working order.

I appreciate your time and efforts with this issue. Although we never got to a clear solution, I still learned a lot and found your comments very helpful.

Thank you