Upgrading from ColdFusion 8 to 9 fails

I am attempting to upgrade from CF8 developer to CF9.  CF8 was running on Apache and I am trying to run CF9 on IIS.   1. I installed CF9 on IIS which hung on the server configuration step.  It timed out. 2. I disabled Apache and CF8 and uninstalled and re-installed CF9 on IIS.  Same hangup. 3. I uninstalled CF8 and CF9 and re-installed CF9 running on IIS.  Same hangup. It appears that CF9 setup is trying to access CF8 setting information but is not able to find it. Any suggestions?

Make sure only one application is listening on each port. For example, only one Web server is allowed to listen on port 80 (or 8080 or any other port). A free tool like TCPView shows this info. Windows 7 shows this in the Resource Monitor. The CF installer often hangs during the install process. It happens even on successful installs. After it hangs try visiting CFAdmin in the Web browser. If CFAdmin comes up then it is likely the install worked. -Mike Chabot ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

I've seen this before, and it turns out it was a corrupted download of the installer. Check the checksum of the file, or just redownload the whopping 400MB installer.  I think they list the checksum on the Adobe CF downloads page. Also, I suggest for you to not upgrade, but do an uninstall CF8, restart, and then install CF9.  I highly recommend, if you can, to just do a fresh install. It'll help you setup your app from scratch as well :-) Wally Randall wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more -----

On 6/22/2010 10:13 AM, rex wrote: ----- Excess quoted text cut - see Original Post for more ----- Be sure to copy or archive all the settings you want to migrate before you uninstall, if it is not to late.