Setup Lucee 6.2 Hosting on Windows Server 2025

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Hello folks!

I have been trying to run several websites with Lucee/IIS in our internal network for 2 weeks without success.

The goal is to access a server internally in the browser with the IP address and the website alias. E.g. http://192.168.5.3/site1/index.cfm, http://192.168.5.3/site2/index.cfm, etc.

I wanted to use IIS for this. But I have not been able to do it so far, there are always “path problems” and “file not found” errors. Is this even possible? Actually it is a web hosting for internal purpose. If you can’t do it with IIS, then how?

We would appreciate it very much if someone could give us instructions on how to do this. So far we have not found any instructions. Thank you very much!

OS: Windows Server 2025
Java Version: bundled
Tomcat Version: bundled
Lucee Version: 6.2.1.122

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There’s a whole section on Lucee docs?

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Thank you sir. But it’s for Windows Datacenter 2019. I installed IIS, Lucee etc. many times and could not get the simple thing we need here…

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So it is 2019 not 2025?

Works out of the box for me every time on iis (from 2012/2019/2022/2025), right off the installer?

Are you working on an AD or Entra domain? Could it be your permissions setup? (running on named user or network service (default) user?)

Trying some things:

  • can you browse to localhost:8888 (direct to lucee tomcat) on the machine
  • can you get to the site from http://localhost/ on the machine
  • does index.htm with hello in it work out of the right directory (whatever your iis webroot is?)
  • does an index.cfm with <cfoutput>#now()#</cfoutput> render and show the current date/time (also chuck an application.cfc in here with this.name = "test"; defined if it throws cf error to eliminated root searching)
  • if error, what directory is the erroir pointing to (and what directory is iis pointing to)

The installer: (sometimes download has been corrupted)

  • uninstall, reboot, re-download, reinstall