With Railo, Tomcat and IIS working in harmony, there was one thing I just coudln’t get to work – the default index page would give a 404 error. Using '/example/index.cfm' worked, but '/example' or '/example/' would not.

A quick Google search presented several possible solutions:

Making sure 'index.cfm' is in the list of default content pages within the IIS website document properties.

Making sure '/*.cfm=ajp13' was listed within the 'uriworkermap.properties' file in the Tomcat conf folder.

Both these were already done, and still nothing. Another solution was outlined at several sites, including http://cflove.org/2010/12/railotomcat-and-iis-http-error-443-not-found-the-page-you-are-requesting-cannot-be-served-error.cfm, which looked at Handler Mapping within IIS. This did work fine, except Railo Session and Client data was being lost everytime it would redirect to the default index.cfm. So, when a logged in user went to ‘/example’, they would be given a new CFID.

The only way to get the default index.cfm page to work and maintain session and client data was to add '/*=ajp13' to the 'uriworkermap.properties' file in the Tomcat conf folder, which passes EVERYTHING off to Tomcat and Railo, making IIS redundant, but at least everything is working.