ColdFusion

Could anyone please help me understand the need of ColdFusion (CF) REST API when actually ColdFusion remote CFC methods can implement the functionality ? It is true that CF REST API needs to be registered and uses / implements HTTP methods. However, still intended functionality / logic can be implemented in a remote CFC method which is accessible through a URI.The bottom line is any functionality / logics can be implemented and access over http in both the cases, why do we really need CF REST API ?

Hi, So, I have two server: msrvwin2016 and msrvwin2016-02.I have 2 instances on each (cfusion and msrvwin2016instance1 / msrvwin201602instance1).I created a cluster on the cfusion instance on msrvwin2016 with msrvwin2016instance1 and the remote instance msrvwin201602instance1 When i try to link IIS and CF with this cluster selected, i have an error "An unknown error has occured".I don't have this issue with the first release of CF2018, but since the "Update 2", it doesn't work. I don't find any logs where there is more detailed informations Weirdly, it works when I select one instance and not the cluster in the Web Server Configuration Tooland when I select the cluster and there is no Remote Instance in the cluster. So the problem seems to be the remote instance, but the configuration looks ok and it worked before Update 2. Does any one had the same problem or knows what to do?Thanks,Guillaume Few screenshots:When making the configurati

The documentation for the security analyzer for CF2016 + indicates that builder connects to a service running on ColdFusion Server Enterprise running in the Development profile to perform the scan and retrieve the results. Is this service documented anywhere?  Ideally I'd like to be able to interact with this service via tools, such as Jenkins, or even better SonarQube.

We are planning on upgrading our existing production CF2018 Standard servers to CF2018 Enterprise.  I have found “migrations guides”, covering the migration from previous version of CF to 2018, but nothing covering the lateral move from Standard to Enterprise. I have been told that I will need to create a CAK file, uninstall CF Standard from production, install CF Enterprise, and then import the CAK.  In the migration guides, I read that I can just stop the service, and then run the install. Any advice on the process, or directions to a definitive guide for a change of this type would be greatly appreciated.

Hi,I can't figure out what's causing these random errors. They happen 20-40 time/day. The Application server is  running CF2018 ENT,  and the SQL server is MS SQL 2017. Nothing shows up in the SQL logs.  - Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Your connection was terminated. - Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Connection reset by peer: socket write error Any ideas? Thanks,Shannon 

I need to purchase a ColdFusion 2018 license, and I'm on the fence of what edition our company needs. Our company is small, and doesn't want to overpay, but I do not want our web applications to suffer from slow performance. For an environment that has around 300-350 maximum users that login, and 12 active web applications with more being developed, which edition should I go with? What are the specific reasons why I should go with this edition over the other? I'm thinking it would be wiser to go with Enterprise edition based off the companies growth, but I would like specific input as to why this would be the best choice. Any answers will be greatly appreciated.

Hello,I created a script that builds a purchase order with the items in the database.In order to have it in PDF, I surrounded it with a CFDOCUMENT:<CFDOCUMENT format = "pdf" filename = "Bon_commande_ # IC_ID # .pdf">I would like to send this document by email:<cfmailparam file = "http: //site/Admin/_ebooks/Commande_bon.cfm? IC_ID = # IC_ID #" content = "Bon_commande_ # IC_ID # .pdf">But I have no results 😉Thank you in advance for your help

I came back to a previously working local server that accesses a remote datasource. I have no clue what changed in the interim, but when I try to run my local scripts that contain calls to the datasource, or when I try to create a new CF datasource to access the server db, I get this  error text. I don't know where to go to change time zone values.  I did see a page on stackoverflow that described how to access the CF server's JVM arguments to insert "-Duser.timezone=" and then your timezone ID. This did not work.Thanks! I should note that the template that makes calls to this db on the live server works just fine.

I am trying to use a mapped drive with cfftp. I've changed Coldfusion to run as the user with the mapped drive access in services. This works:localfile ="c:\foo\bar.txt" This doesn't. I get an error (The system cannot find the path specified). localfile ="m:\foo\bar.txt"To see if it was a cfftp issue I tried:<cfset dir = DirectoryList("c:\") /> <cfdump var="#dir#"> <cfset dir = DirectoryList("m:\") /> <cfdump var="#dir#">M returned an empty array. Any suggestions?  Thanks!

As technical lead working in an Agile deployment shop. I am having challenges demonstrating thatthe upgrading to paralelle Dev /UAT/Prod and External hosting will not work in a phases approach becauseof mixe d env/sync issues.  (timing issues) Needs to happen very quickly.Can't really upgrade entire dev/decommision, go on to UAT ........ Please let me know if i have lost it. We will NOT be able to upgrade Dev and expect to promote to UAT/Prod and Hosting server in a phased approach.  New CF 2018 has new Java Version etc. (Code/impact analysis as we documented needs to be done) Due to our agile deployment methodology. Changes from Cold Fusion get promoted to UAT/Prod and Hosting some times daily. As you stated no Freeze for week or 2 may not be possible. Not to mentionour current way from Interface DB perspective all runs through DEV (No landing server) Again would be mixed Env out of sync, challenges not sure could work.  Linux/Oracle perspective. We

HiI'm trying to call a web page using cfhttp. The url works fine and returns XML when called directly from the browser (any browser) but fails with the following error message when called from a .cfm file using cfhttp:structCharset[empty string]ErrorDetailI/O Exception: peer not authenticatedFilecontentConnection FailureHeader[empty string]MimetypeUnable to determine MIME type of file.Responseheaderstruct [empty]StatuscodeConnection Failure. Status code unavailable.TextYESSymptoms: It's a secured url (https) so I've attempted using the port 443 (which I verified with the vendor) and a plethora of other combinations of parameters. I was reviewing past errors like this via Google searches on different CF forums where they stated that the solution was either a bug fix from Adobe or that you needed to download the security certificate onto your own server, but all of those references were to CF9, and I'm running CF10. I've been able to use CFHTTP on other SSL protected sites and the respon

Hi all, I have a problem generating pdf files.I use Coldfusion 2016 update 11 and <cfdocument format="PDF"> to generate a pdf document. If I set pageheight to 2.5 centimeters, I got this error:The valid size must be equal to or greater than 2 inches (5.1 centimeters). There are some limits in pagesize? Thank you very much

Hello, all, I've got a problem that is compounded by the pandemic because almost no one who has permissions to see what I need to see are in the office.  smh Okay, so until recently we were running CF11.  SOLR collections were working great.  Then we upgraded to CF2016.  The issue that I'm having exists only in staging - production seems to work fine. In staging, we have a kind of AUA.  A question is asked via form input, validated, sanitized, placed into a database, then the database is reindexed so that the new question will be available for future searches.  But, whenever anything is done that involves the use of the SOLR collection (indexing, searching, etc.), I get an error message:  "{SOLR collection name} doesn't exist."  Now, it appears in the CF Admin, and when you open Services on the server, everything CF is running; including the Add-On service.  The 'cfusion' user has full rights to the root of the webserver, and

In ColdFusion2018 administrator, on the server updates page, the available updates are listed but there is no "download" or "download and install" button to click (on any of the available updates).

I have noticed an annoying problem with the scheduler.Everytime you edit a task it sets the start date to the current day no matter what the original start date was. This could be a problem especially if you have a monthly task that runs on Sundays and you edit it on a Tuesday and you forget to modify the start date. Surprise, it would now run on Tuesday I suppose.  I don't like surprises. Has anyone else experienced this?My Cold Fusion Version: 2018.0.02.313961 I'm planning to apply the latest update and just see if this is addressed. I'll update this post with any findings.

Hello, all, I was just giving some thought to encryption, and considered something.  But I don't know how to do it, and I'm wondering if it's even possible. Is there a way to bring CF jCrypt to the client?  Hear me out. In a MITM attack, the malicious actor gets in between the client and the server, with the client encryption to the MITM device, which decrypts it, logs it, re-encrypts it to the server.  So, if I understand correctly, a user logging on to, say, their banking would provide the username and password for their account in, ostensibly, clear text to the malicious actor. Now, I know about ajaxproxy and it's ability to connect Javascript to CF functions.  But using ajaxproxy to access a jCrypt function to hash the password is still sending in 'clear text' in a MITM attack scenario.  Right?  Or am I missing something?  I assumed that the ajaxproxy just made server-side functions available, but information still has to be pa

I thought I'd update the JVM to the latest version, but the "JAVA SE 11.0.8(LTS)" links on Adobe's  download page all seem to be broken. Anybody know how to reach someone to get these fixed, or if there are alternative downloads anywhere that are in compliance with Oracle's Java license?https://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.htmlThanks!

I've been having lots of problems with the Performance Monitoring Toolset since putting my CF2018 Enterprise intranet into production about a month ago.  I have the PMT installed on my Test/Dev server (Windows Server 2019, 64Gb RAM, running a Development instance of CF18 plus the PMT), and it's monitoring my Dev site plus my production site on another server (same hardware/setup).What seems to keep happening every couple days or so is that the Elasticsearch datastore services that underlie the PMT are crashing, which initially makes it impossible to login.  When I find that, I go to restart the Datastore service, then the PMT service itself, but the PMT service won't start because it fails to connect to the Datastore.  After several attempts, I usually get frustrated and uninstall and reinstall the whole thing, which is clearly not a viable long-term solution.The datastore/logs files show stuff like:org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchPhaseExecutionException: all shard

I applied all the hotfix updates 4-10 manually to ColdFusion 2018, but when we run the Nessus scanner, it's showing the server as unpatched. Looks like Nessus is looking in a different directory: Nessus detected the following unpatched instances :Update directory : D:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\lib\updatesMissing cumulative hotfix : chf2018000005.jar It shows this error for each update, even though they were all applied through the hf-updates folder. Anyone run into this? Nessus is wrong, obviously.Tom Muck

Hi, We are migrating from MSSQLserver to POSTGRESQL database.We are getting column doesn't exists, even thoough column exists in the perticular table.org.postgresql.util.PSQLException: ERROR: column "exampleid" does not exists Below is the code snippet for MSSQL server<cfstoredproc procedure="spexample" datasource="#odbc1#" returncode="Yes">         <cfprocparam type="In" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER" dbvarname="@ExampleID" value="#ExampleID#">          <cfprocparam type="Out" cfsqltype="CF_SQL_INTEGER" variable="NewExampleID" dbvarname="@oIdentity" null="No"> </cfstoredproc> Any changes need to be done for PostgreSQL?

Lately, I have noticed the following in the exception log.  It started around 36 hours after installing update 10 for CF18.  Perhaps a coincidence.  Server seems to operate normally. "Error","DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-5","07/25/20","15:47:12","","500 Internal Server Error "coldfusion.tagext.net.HttpTag$HttpTagServerErrorException: 500 Internal Server Errorat coldfusion.tagext.net.HttpTag.<clinit>(HttpTag.java:1113)at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName0(Native Method)at java.base/java.lang.Class.forName(Class.java:315)at cfadministrator2ecfc207599677$funcGETUPDATES.<clinit>(/CFIDE/adminapi/administrator.cfc)at cfadministrator2ecfc207599677.<clinit>(/CFIDE/adminapi/administrator.cfc)at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance0(Native Method)at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.newInstance(NativeConstructorAccessorImpl.java:62)at java.base/jdk.internal.reflect.DelegatingConstructorAccessorI

Hello, all, I had a bad feeling when I registered for CF DEV 2020 that the third-party company Carahsoft would use this as a way to gather contact information to be used in the form of SPAM and cold-calling.  But I really wanted to see what CF DEV 2020 had to offer, and I gleaned some good info from it. But then the SPAM emails started hitting my WORK email address.  Okay, they provided a link to stop the sending of unsolicited emails.  Cool.  But then the calls started.  I should have read the EULA; I would have skipped the convention. So, for now I've got one of those cordless phones that has call block baked into it, and I've added the number that was displayed on my CID to the block list.  But this won't last long, I'm sure. Any ideas on how to get Carahsoft to stop sending unsolicited offers? V/r, ^ _ ^

We have an old flash app that uses the flex2gateway thing that was in cf9, we currently are migrating to cf2018 and not quite sure what to do to move this service.has anybody delt with this before? Thanks in advance for any insite.

Getting a weird error all of a sudden, unsure when it started happening, having to do with populating a form that previously had no issues: OS: Windows 2016 (Virtual machine) Version: 2016.0.16.320445 (Enterprise) Has anyone come across this error when using the CFPDFFORMPARAM: Could not initialize class com.adobe.agl.text.BreakIterator null Source code kinda looks like this (tagless):cfpdfform action="populate" source="#tmpfile#"cfpdfformparam name="stockno" value="#stockno#"cfpdfformparam name="title" value="#title#"cfpdfformparam name="ctrlno" value="#ctrlno#"cfpdfformparam name="formno" value="#formno#"cfpdfformparam name="qpc" value="#qpc#"/cfpdfform The form was not createed with extensions, just within adobe acrobat.

I have a doubt related to the license. I want to know which is the best practice related to instances that can live in a license. I don´t want to affect my actual services performance. Now, my server has 16gb ram, 8 cores, and the Enterprise 2018 license. Thanks for your help.