My manager had recently asked me to set up my PC to be able to switch web roots, making deploying my code to the live site a little less cumbersome. He had found a nice little program to do this (IISAdmin.NET for those interested). It allows you to choose what you want the web root to be so you can reference all of your files with absolute references (or to reference directories just like on your web server).

I had got everything set up in IISAdmin, set up my website in IIS, switched my web root to my new site and got everything working…except for my flex2gateway. For some reason, whenever I tried to remote via the flex2gateway, it kept coming back with the error Channel.Connect.Failed error NetConnection.Call.Failed: HTTP: Status 405 Cannot find ‘http://localhost/flex2gateway’ However, when I switched back to my Default Web Site, it worked correctly again. I tried restarting IIS, restarting ColdFusion, and nothing seemed to make it work. I then went to http://localhost/flex2gateway/ and it showed the (correct) blank white screen. I then noticed that I was using the new web root I had created. I then went back to my Flex app and tried connecting to CF again, and lo-and-behold, it worked correctly…what?!? I had made no changes other than visiting the flex2gateway directly in my web browser.

So I guess the fix is to either let ColdFusion simmer for a bit and it will “figure it out for itself” or (probably more accurate), open up the http://localhost/flex2gateway/ page for ColdFusion to add whatever settings it needs to for the flex2gateway for that newly moved web root localhost application. Either way, I’m not complaining, well, not until I have to do this for another site, and hopefully this process will work then too.