IF that is the case and port 8500 is not open at the firewall or the web server has not been configured to listen on that port or it is blocked in some other way it can accont for the nondescript error you are getting.
You might try opening the old fashioned DOS shell, command prompt I think they call it now - probably in the accessories menu, and run:
telnet liverservername 8500
You might see a connection string or the cursor might just move to next line left side - depends on the telnet client
Then type (sometimes case sensitive)
HEAD http://liveserver/path/to/page.cfm HTTP/1.0 [enter][enter]
You may or may not get an echo when typing the string - it's always fun when you don't :)
The results should indicate if you are at least getting to the web server or not. If you don't get an HTTP header back then it's a network or server config problem. If you do get an HTTP header back then I'll join you in the befuddled club.
Jeff
At 6/30/2005 04:46 PM, you wrote:
Port 8500 on my home development machine or on the server?
Jeff Mayfield wrote:
First guess is that port 8500 is not open.
Jeff
At 6/30/2005 01:06 PM, you wrote:
That's right, I used the word "befuddled"... it's that kind of day.
Recently the server I host my sites on was rebuilt, and extra security measures added. Most everything is working fine, but one thing has left me confused beyond believe, despite hours of googling.
I have a CFHTTP call to an RSS file in order to display latest news in the BlogFusion admin. This file sits on the BlogFusion site. The file is fine and valid (xxxx).
When I look at a BlogFusion site on my local development machine (using http://localhost:8500/blah/blah), the CFHTTP works fine, pulls the content in fine.
But when I look at the same page on a live server (I've tested on several), I'm getting the following error:
Connection Failure: Status code unavailable
Now, I am guessing that it's an issue of some server security settings not being tweaked right (although I'm guessing there), but what really confuses me is that it doesn't seem to be either a code error (the code is grabbing the content fine - as long as it can connect), or a server error (if it was on the server, why would my development machine be able to use the CFHTTP just fine?).
Because this is so odd, I'm not even sure where to start looking! Help!
Jake
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