Administrator will not load

[Karolus]

I cannot start CF8 on XPPro because port 51800 is not available. I can't
figure out where to go to find port 51800. I read some of the pages on this
issue, but a path wasn't clear to me. Have any of you run into this and what
did you do to work around this? Thanks, Karolus

[BKBK]

Click on this link:
http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

[BKBK]

If Coldfusion still complains about the port, then configure XP's firewall to
allow port 51800. It is probably the default broadcast port for the JRun
server. To verify this, open the following file in a text editor:

C:\Coldfusion8\runtime\servers\coldfusion\SERVER-INF\jrun.xml

Locate the element <attribute name="port"> nested within the element <service
class="jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService" name="ProxyService">. It is around
20 lines from the end. You will find that it has a value 51800.

Proceed as follows to open the port in XP's firewall.

1. Click on [i]Start[/i] and then on [i]Control Panel[/i]
2. Click on [i]Windows Security Center[/i]
3. Click on [i]Windows Firewall[/i] to open the firewall
4. Click on the [i]Exceptions[/i] tab
5. Click on [i]Add Port[/i]
6. In the [i]Name[/i] field, type a name, for example, JRun
7. In the [i]Port number[/i] field, type 51800
8. Press [i]OK[/i] and you're done.

Restart Coldfusion. Click again on the link I gave earlier.

[Karolus]

Thanks much for your advice.
I tried the following:
1. Your advice didn't work.
2. I took Windows Firewall offline...doesn't work
3. I changed the "jrun.xml" proxy service to 51800 (It was at 8500)...doesn't
work
Any other thoughts?

[Karolus]

When I try to load the administrator (127.0.0.1:8500), I am presented with the
option to open the file "Index.cfm"...if I say open the file, Homesite opens
the file. I hope this information helps. Karolus

[BKBK]

I hope you did put the 8500 back where you removed it. In fact, put everything
back as it was, and lets's start over.

It could be that, during installation, you didn't configure a web server for
Coldfusion. A good place to start is to configure Coldfusion to use the
built-in JRun web server.

To do so, launch C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\bin\wsconfig.exe. A user interface
should appear.

Click on the [i]Add[/i] button. The interface [i]Add Web Server
Configuration[/i] should appear. The values for [i]JRun Host[/i] and [i]JRun
Server[/i] should be respectively [i]localhost[/i] and [i]coldfusion[/i]. Press
OK and then Exit. Restart Coldfusion.

Try that first. If it fails, there is yet another way, by menas of the above
XML file.

[Karolus]

I tried this approach, but it didn't work. Here is the error message I got.
"Could not connect to any JRun/Coldfusion servers on host localhost"
What should I do next?