ColdFusion 10 server won't start

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I have ColdFusion 10 (Developer) installed over Apache 2.2.24 on a Windows 7 machine. Everything was working fine except for the line debugger (via Eclipse). While hunting around for a solution I changed the debugging port to 80 (from 8000). I tried to restart the server and now nothing works. I either need to find a way to fix the problem using the command prompt or re-install ColdFusion 10. This is, therefore, a two part question.

  1. Can I fix the current installation? Here is the error I get when I try to start the server from DOS:

    c:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\bin>coldfusion start ERROR: transport error 202: bind failed: Address already in use ERROR: JDWP Transport dt_socket failed to initialize, TRANSPORT_INIT(510) JDWP exit error AGENT_ERROR_TRANSPORT_INIT(197): No transports initialized [../../../src/share/back/debugInit.c:741] FATAL ERROR in native method: JDWP No transports initialized, jvmtiError=AGENT_ERROR_TRANSPORT_INIT(197)

  2. Can I create a .car file of my settings from DOS before I re-install ColdFusion 10?

One piece of information that may be relevant is that I tried to move CFIDE from ColdFusion10/cfusion/wwwroot/ to inetpub/wwwroot/ (because that is where I have the rest of my files). Before the move both the server and the debugger worked. After I moved the directory, the server still worked but the debugger stopped working. I changed the path to CFIDE in C:\Apache24\conf\httpd.conf and mod_jk.conf. I know, I should have moved CFIDE back to its original location then left well enough alone, but that's water under the bridge.

Thanks in advance for any suggestions you may have.

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The debugger settings are in the jvm.config file, located in the [instance]/bin dir, eg for me it is C:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\bin\jvm.config.

You'll see this sort of thing:

-DDEBUGGER_SERVER_PORT=portNumber

And currently it'll probably say 80. Obviously(?) one should not try to make the debugger listen on the same port as the web server ;-).

You oughtn't've moved your CFIDE dir: it was in the correct place to start with. However if you want to browse to it, just make an alias to it in your httpd-vhosts.conf file

I also recommend only changing one thing at a time when messing with stuff. IE: get the debugger working, then try to move CF's internal files to different locations, etc. Trying to do both at once is not helping your situation, as you probably now have two things preventing CF from starting, and even if you fix one, you won't know as the other will still be stuffing things up.

As for getting the debugger working... raise a different question for that, or try to make sense of the docs.