Is anybody out there successfully running SiteMinder along with CF8 on an IIS server?
Here's the problem. It took some effort, but about a month ago I installed Siteminder on my company's CF7 server. Siteminder and CF7 worked together in harmony, everything worked properly (flash forms, flashremoting, flex gateway). A few days ago we upgraded from CF7 to CF8...and all hell broke loose. After the install we found out that siteminder was broken. I figured out that the CF8 install had removed the siteminder ISAPI application wilcard mapping from the IIS settings. I put the mapping back in and moved it above the CF8 jrun wildcard mapping and BAM...siteminder was working again. After that we started to test CF8. We noticed that flash forms were not displaying at all. I combed through numerous postings and tech articles to find any kind of help. I tried the "keep-generated-swfs" fix in the adobe support articles, and that resulted in the flash forms being displayed, but only working partially. The forms would generate, but the clock busy cursor would just spin and spin, and no data would load in the form. This lead us to believe that there might be something wrong with the remoting gateway. Sure enough, the flash remoting gateway and the flex gateway were 404 errors. Having run into the gateway problem before, we made some recommended changes to the flex xml setting files to no avail. I then ran the "Remove_ALL_connectors.bat" and "IIS_connector.bat". Bingo! the gateways were open and the flash forms were displaying and working properly...and there was much rejoicing! BUT...running "remove_all_connectors" removed the siteminder ISAPI info again. When I re-setup the ISAPI info and placed the SM filter above the CF filter the flash forms and gateway were broken again.
So...what is it about CF8 that doesn't like being second in line in terms of ISAPI filters? CF7 didn't seem to complain about this order. Why would Siteminder break the CF8 flash and flex gateways? I tried comparing the old CF7 lib/neo-*.xml with the new CF8 xml settings files, but I didn't see any obvious conflicts. granted there are numerous differences with the new xml settings files as compared with the old, but all the settings that dealt with gateways and forms seemed to be the same...at least I think so.
Help? anyone? anyone? Bueller? anyone?