Installing ColdFusion 9 on OSX Snow Leopard, Lion, and Mountain Lion 64-bit
Intro
I upgraded some of my Macs to Lion and Mt. Lion over the last week and had problems when trying to Install ColdFusion 9.0.2. When trying to connect CF to Apache (during the install) no errors were reported, but the connection did not work.The Problem
At first the problem was that when trying to browse to /CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm the browser would prompt me to download index.cfm instead of rendering it. This got me looking at /etc/apache2/httpd.conf. There I saw that the JRun settings had not been added. They look something like this:# JRun Settings
LoadModule jrun_module /Applications/ColdFusion9/runtime/lib/wsconfig/1/mod_jrun22.so
<IfModule mod_jrun22.c>
JRunConfig Verbose false
JRunConfig Apialloc false
JRunConfig Ignoresuffixmap false
JRunConfig Serverstore /Applications/ColdFusion9/runtime/lib/wsconfig/1/jrunserver.store
JRunConfig Bootstrap 127.0.0.1:51800
#JRunConfig Errorurl url <optionally redirect to this URL on errors>
#JRunConfig ProxyRetryInterval 600 <number of seconds to wait before trying to reconnect to unreachable clustered s$
#JRunConfig ConnectTimeout 15 <number of seconds to wait on a socket connect to a jrun server>
#JRunConfig RecvTimeout 300 <number of seconds to wait on a socket receive to a jrun server>
#JRunConfig SendTimeout 15 <number of seconds to wait on a socket send to a jrun server>
AddHandler jrun-handler .jsp .jws .cfm .cfml .cfc .cfr .cfswf
</IfModule>
So I found that code in another file and pasted it into httpd.conf and restarted apache. It wouldn't start. Eventually I checked in the system log (by firing up Console on the Mac) and saw this error message:
Did find:\n\t/Applications/ColdFusion9/runtime/lib/wsconfig/1/mod_jrun22.so: mach-o, but wrong architecture
So next I decided to run the ColdFusion web server configuration tool. I removed any existing config and then tried to add a new one. I pointed to all of the appropriate files and when I tried to apply the changes and create the connection, I saw this:
The Solution
I knew from somewhere (don't recall where) that these connectors that it was looking for are bundled up inside of the wsconfig.jar (which is located in [ColdFusionFolder]/runtime/lib/.I found the wsconfig.jar, made a copy of it and renamed it to wsconfigFiles.zip. I then unzipped them in place. This created a new wsconfigFiles folder. In there I found the connecters/apache folder, but there was no intel-macosx64 folder. The web server config folder explicitly told me it was look for that folder. So it looks like the installer, when trying to make the connection used the 32-bit version of mod_jrun22.so and when that failed reverted the httpd.conf to the backed up version that it makes.
So, how do I go about getting the 64-bit version of mod_jrun22.so. Well, you can compile it yourself using the instructions here at Scott Pinkston's Blog. Or you can download the precompiled file from Scott.
However you get it, you now need to get that file into the wsconfig.jar so that the Web Server Config tool will work correctly.
Next I took that new mod_jrun22.so file and coppied it into that wsconfigFiles folder I created earlier by unzipping wsconfig.jar. I put it into wsconfigFiles/connectors/apache/intel-macosx64/prebuilt/.
Then, in terminal I browsed to that directory and jar'd the files into a new wsconfig.jar
cd /Applications/ColdFusion9/runtime/lib/wsconfigFiles/
jar -cmf META-INF/MANIFEST.MF wsconfig.jar *
Next, I renamed the old wsconfig.jar to wsconfig.jar.old and copied the new wsconfig.jar into its place in [coldfusion]/runtime/lib. Then I ran it.
sudo java -jar wsconfig.jar
Then when I made the connection in the web server config tool it found the new mod_jrun22.so with no problem and made the connection.
There was still one problem though. The default document was not set to index.cfm. So I needed to go to /etc/apache2/httpd.conf and find this section:
#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>
And add an entry for index.cfm
#
# DirectoryIndex: sets the file that Apache will serve if a directory
# is requested.
#
<IfModule dir_module>
DirectoryIndex index.cfm
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>
One more thing for Lion and Mountain Lion
Finally everything worked as expected... EXCEPT...On OSX Lion and Mountain Lion many people have reported that certain things did not work with CF9. Specifically the Settings Summary did not load in CFAdmin and CFDocument did not work. Fortunately, I heard from Wil who heard from Kurt, who heard from Peter that there is a simple fix for this.
In CFAdmin (or in [coldfusion]/runtime/bin/jvm.config) add the following JVM argument.
-Dawt.toolkit=sun.awt.HToolkit
And that's it. Restart CF and you should have a fully functioning CF9.0.2 install.
It's really not that bad. I have done this 3 times now and had no issues. There are a lot of steps, but it's really not that hard.
I discovered this all slightly differently than you, but likely no more efficiently. The file wsconfig.log at cf_root/runtime/lib/wsconfig had this entry:
java.io.FileNotFoundException: connectors/apache/intel-macosx64/prebuilt/mod_jrun22.so
Took me a while to find where mod_jrun22.so was hiding, well at least the 32 bit version that is..
# jar tf runtime/lib/wsconfig.jar | grep mod_jrun22.so
connectors/apache/intel-macosx/prebuilt/mod_jrun22.so
connectors/apache/intel-win/prebuilt/mod_jrun22.so
connectors/apache/intel-win64/prebuilt/mod_jrun22.so
connectors/apache/sparc-solaris/prebuilt/mod_jrun22.so
connectors/apache/sparc-solaris64/prebuilt/mod_jrun22.so
connectors/apache/intel-linux64/prebuilt/mod_jrun22.so
connectors/apache/intel-linux/prebuilt/mod_jrun22.so
That's when I knew I had to find a precompiled 64-bit mod_jrun22.so.
From here though I plan to do the rest of the install manually. There is some documentation on this available, such as here:
http://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/manually-conf...
That is obviously old, but I do have a working version of 9.0.1 on Snow Leopard I hope cross referencing will be all that I need to finish this off. At this point I've had enough with the CF installer to not want to go back.
Andy