One thing.. I couldn’t get any client domains in plesk to run through CF> Every request no matter how I formatted the file name woudl throw a 404 error. I checked permissions and they seemed fine.

Answer: When installing Coldfusion, make sure it is set to run as the user apache (or psaserv) so CF will load the pages for domains other than the CF Administrator.

You can use nobody if you add it to the pasaserv group.

For details see this Plesk thread: http://forum.swsoft.com/showthread.php?threadid=16583

I don’t have my RedHat 4 box online to check this anymore but it sounds like you’re very close. What’s the specific error you get when trying to go to one of these sites? Do you see anything in the error_log file for the site? How about the cfserver log? tail -f /opt/coldfusion8/cfserver.log

Something to try, if the sites that don’t work contain the JRun options in their httpd.include files and it’s exactly the same stuff as you put in the global httpd.conf, try removing the matching jrun info in the global httpd.conf and make sure to click the coldfusion support box in plesk for all your new domains.

-Matt

You can check it by running the following in the command line:

httpd -v

If you’re running Apache 2.2.something, check out this post for hacking plesk to allow for mod_jrun22:

http://www.usercore.com/2007/10/19/coldfusion-8-and-plesk-8-on-redhat-5-via-mod_jrun22/

If you’re running Apache 2.0.something, you’re got the right version of mod_jrun so there’s another issue. The error log file for apache should offer more info.

Try the following command when starting apache with the LoadModule line for mod_jrun in place.

tail -100 /var/log/httpd/error_log

That will show you the last 100 lines in the log. Or if you have two shell windows open, one for restarting apache and one for looking at the log you can do the following to see new entries in the log in realtime:

tail -f /var/log/httpd/error_log

I am using Fedora Core 6 - 64bit. In my zz010_psa_httpd.conf If I include:

LoadModule jrun_module /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/psa/mod_jrun20.so

The HTTPD does not start. If I remove the line then HTTPD start obviously I need this command line. Any Ideas? Thanks!

Hugh

I have seen this error before. This could very well be unrelated to plesk. I believe a NullPointerException is thrown when ColdFusion looks for something that’s undefined. Like if you were trying to call a custom tag that didn’t exist. Or if you had some old CF code that called function no longer available. Or it could be due to a broken CF install.

Here’s a couple things I’d check.

I assume you’ve tried to load up the ColdFusion administrator. If not, try to do that. That loading properly or not would rule out any issues with your code. Also, I think the first time you load the cfadmin, that does some additional install tasks.

Next look at the install log file for your cf install. Mine’s at /opt/oldfusion8/Adobe_ColdFusion_8_InstallLog.log about a page down from the top I see:

Summary
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Installation: Successful.

3697 Successes
0 Warnings
0 NonFatalErrors
0 FatalErrors

If you see any warnings or errors, find them to get more info.

I did an install using RedHat 5 recently which didn’t have apxs installs with apache by default … that threw an error so I installed the http-devel package and reinstalled CF. Maybe this is the issue with CentOS too?

If everything looks good there, check out your error logs to see if they offer anymore useful info that the NullPointer error. Assuming you’ve installed in /opt/coldfusion8 you can do a:

tail -500 /opt/coldfusion8/cfserver.log

tail -500 /opt/coldfusion8/exception.log

Hopefully you see something a little more descriptive.

And if all that doesn’t show anything new, you can try skipping plesk all together just to rule out if it’s a plesk+cf issue or just a cf issue.

Assuming your apache conf and conf.d directories are in the same place as mine look for an temporarily comment out any mentions of jrun (my output will look different than yours):

[root@server logs]# grep -ri jrun /etc/httpd/conf
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:# JRun Settings
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:#LoadModule jrun_module /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/1/mod_jrun22.so
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf:#
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: JRunConfig Verbose false
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: JRunConfig Apialloc false
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: JRunConfig Ignoresuffixmap false
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: JRunConfig Serverstore /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/1/jrunserver.store
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: JRunConfig Bootstrap 127.0.0.1:51800
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: #JRunConfig Errorurl url
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: #JRunConfig ProxyRetryInterval 600
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: #JRunConfig ConnectTimeout 15
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: #JRunConfig RecvTimeout 300
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: #JRunConfig SendTimeout 15
/etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf: AddHandler jrun-handler .jsp .jws .cfm .cfml .cfc .cfr .cfswf

[root@bree logs]# grep -ri jrun /etc/httpd/conf.d
/etc/httpd/conf.d/zz010_psa_httpd.conf:LoadModule jrun_module /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/psa/mod_jrun20.so

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Now make sure you only have the following in you httpd.conf file and all other mentions of jrun stuff are commented out in any other conf or conf.d files:

LoadModule jrun_module /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/1/mod_jrun22.so
JRunConfig Verbose false
JRunConfig Apialloc false
JRunConfig Ignoresuffixmap false
JRunConfig Serverstore /opt/coldfusion8/runtime/lib/wsconfig/1/jrunserver.store
JRunConfig Bootstrap 127.0.0.1:51800
AddHandler jrun-handler .jsp .jws .cfm .cfml .cfc .cfr .cfswf

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Hopefully some new info will come out of this process. Let me know how it goes.

-Matt

However, there seems to be one last thing to overcome - when I try to load any .cfm pages on a domain with Coldfusion enabled in Plesk, all I get is this JRun Servlet Error 500 with the following stack trace:

java.lang.NullPointerException
at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:283)
at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

Any ideas what might be causing this? It’s a fresh installation of Plesk and CF8.