Coldfusion doesn't start on first install

David Wang — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 06:46:56 +0000

If you get this error on a fresh install of Coldfusion (CentOS, CF8), check your /etc/hosts. It’s generally because its trying to reach the external interface instead of the internal one.

Configuring the web server connector (Launched on the first run of the ColdFusion 8 start script)
Running apache connector wizard…
ColdFusion 8 not started, will retry connector 12 more time(s)

Coldfusion 8 on Redhat 4

David Wang — Wed, 23 Jan 2008 14:49:11 +0000

So i’m installing Coldfusion 8 for Adobe on some of their Redhat 4 servers and came across this nasty bug:
./Coldfusion-8-lin.bin: line 2479: /tmp/install.dir.31880/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: Permission denied ./Coldfusion-8-lin.bin: line 2479: /tmp/install.dir.31880/Linux/resource/jre/bin/java: Success
So I go into /tmp and try to execute the java command. No luck. For some reason I think to copy the entire dir into my home directory to give it a try. It works. I did a grep on the Coldfusion-8-lin.bin file and found these lines:

if [ $IATEMPDIR ]; then INSTBASE=$IATEMPDIR if [ $LAX_DEBUG ]; then echo "Forcing install base (including tmp dir) to: $IATEMPDIR"

So I did a `export IATEMPDIR=/home/dwang/tmp` and created the tmp dir in my home directory. Booya! It worked.

Strange error. I saw a couple of people having the same error. Hopefully this can help you guys out

Update:The wonderful guys at Rackspace said that the server /tmp directories are mounted with a noexec as a security precaution: To fix that :

mount -o remount,exec /tmp/

then execute the script again, then change it back to noexec:

mount -o remount,noexec /tmp/

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