Well I think I have no choice but to give up. I have been trying to get someone to help with my problem for 3and a half hours now, and its after 5am Saturday. I still have a partial installation of CFMX. It doesn't work and nor does my previous CF5.0. What began at 9pm last night as what I thought would be a 20-30 minute job before stopping work has turned into an 8 hour nightmare with no sign of any solution.
No one seems to be able to see what my problem is. All I've had in the last 3.5 hours is either "calm down and fix your problem" or "rtm" or being told to do something that's at least 4 steps past where the installation got to. The problem is this: I was stupid enough to believe the Macromedia docs when they said CFMX could coexist on a winXPPRO system with CF5.0. When it proved that it would work but only if you measure response times with a calendar, I decided to bite the bullet and go for CFMX on my Dev server rather than both servers. I removed the CFMX, and reinstalled it according to the installation instructions on the Macromedia site. Out of 11 steps, it got to step 7 and won't go further. NO one has seemed to grasp this notion so far. I think I am going to have to tear down all my CF server stuff, and rebuild CF5.0 from scratch, then probably have to redo all my DSNs too because last time I installed CF it broke all the DSN settings. It'll do it again probably. Somehow I'll have to figure out which Macromedia registry keys are for Fireworks, which for DWMX, which for FlashMX so I can leave those there, and which are for CFMX and which for CF5.0. I just apologise for having such a boring problem that no one wants to bother with it any more. I tried to look in House of Fusion's archives for IIs or CFMX but you get fifty gazillion entries. This list is becoming very clique-plagued. Unless you're one of the inner circle on this list, its difficult to get a question answered. I'm sorry about that because it has been a wonderful resource over the last 3 years as I learned about ColdFusion. Now it's next-to-useless because it's all about CFMX, I don't have CFMX, and it seems no one will help me GET CFMX either. SO back to CF5.0 I go I suppose. That's if I can actually get that to work. Does anyone have any idea how I can recover all the settings I had in my CF5 now that the installation has partially wrecked it? Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -----Original Message----- From: Michael Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, 8 March 2003 4:03 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Installation problem with MX - HELP!! Thank you for your advice. Right here its just gone 4am Saturday. I started updating my server at 9pm Friday. All previous installations of CF have been a 10 minute job. This time it's been hours. There is no one at Macromedia to ask at 4am on Saturdays. My servers are broken and I have a deadline that is now looking pretty dubious and I want to get to bed sometime before dawn. All I was doing was following the instructions in the docs that so many people have referred me to. I am sorry I yelled, but I am not such an amateur that I would load totally new software on a production server. Thanks for your suggestion that I put a logical gameplan together. I started asking the question on this list when I realized that I had exhausted all the options in knew about. I thought perhaps some of you who had been through this before might help me. All anyone seems to want to do is either criticize me or tell me to RTFM. I'VE READ THE (*&*&^ MANUAL! IT DOESN'T HELP! The manual got me into this damn mess because it told me I could have both servers on the one system. So what exactly would your logical game plan be? Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
