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RDS, ColdFusion 8 Debugger, and Eclipse

2007 December 01
tags: CFEclipse · ColdFusion · Eclipse
by Mike Henke

I tried using the ColdFusion 8 Debugger through Eclipse but kept getting an error message saying "Unable to contact the RDS Server 'localhost.'" Not to helpful :-) I am a big fan of Fusion Debug.

My problem was two fold.

1. My web.xml file had RDS commented out in a couple spots. The file for me was located @ /opt/coldfusion8/wwwroot/WEB-INF. I uncommented the portions out.

2. RDS default in Eclipse was using port 8500. My port was actually 80. This setting was found within Eclipse, Window—> Preferences —> ColdFusion —> RDS Configuration.

RDS, ColdFusion 8 Debugger, and Eclipse

5 Responses leave one →
  1. Phillip Senn
    Phillip Senn PERMALINK *
    Mar 21, 2008 at 9:48 AM

    Thank you very, very much!

  1. Jason Presley
    Jason Presley PERMALINK *
    Oct 29, 2008 at 4:51 PM

    I search all over for the RDS Configuration setting because mine was not under ColdFusion. Mine was actually found at Window--> Preferences --> Adobe --> RDS Configuration

  1. John Hall
    John Hall PERMALINK
    Dec 9, 2008 at 2:05 PM

    Thanks for saving me a head-scratching. Solved my problem.

  1. Zac
    Zac PERMALINK
    Jan 7, 2009 at 12:26 PM

    For others' reference, you might want to also check out: http://www.vintagecoding.com/blog/2008/07/24/eclipse-rds-might-be-a-problem-with-ganymede

    This was needed with CF 8 and Eclipse 3.4.1, CFEclipse Plugin 1.3.2, CF Extensions for Eclipse 1.0.

    It was a workaround for a hung "Contacting server..." msg.

  1. joe
    joe PERMALINK
    Apr 28, 2010 at 5:39 AM

    Turn off compression in IIS ! :)

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