RDS, ColdFusion 8 Debugger, and Eclipse

December 1, 2007 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.

CFEclipse · ColdFusion · Eclipse

6 Comments + Add Comment

Phillip Senn* Mar 21, 2008 at 11:48 AM PERMALINK

Thank you very, very much!
Jason Presley* Oct 29, 2008 at 6:51 PM PERMALINK

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
John Hall Dec 9, 2008 at 4:05 PM PERMALINK

Thanks for saving me a head-scratching. Solved my problem.
Zac Jan 7, 2009 at 2:26 PM PERMALINK

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.
joe Apr 28, 2010 at 7:39 AM PERMALINK

Turn off compression in IIS ! :)
Aaron Feb 1, 2012 at 2:39 PM PERMALINK

More than 4 years later, I had this same issue. Also needed port 80. Thanks for saving me some time!