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Coldfusion 2025 Broken after Update 81. Administrator does not launch (500 Error)application.log is showing:Could not initialize class org.apache.bcel.util.ClassPath The specific sequence of files included or processed is: C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\index.cfm, line: 1522. Our applications are reporting:Could not process Application.cfc successfullyWhen using packing managercfpm install allWe notice access denied errors from the getgo:C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\bin\..\lib\toInstallBundles.txt (Access is denied)C:\ColdFusion2025\cfusion\..\bundles\bundlesdependency.json (Access is denied)

Update 8 for CF 2025.  The link for the packages is https://cfdownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/2025/packages/hotfix-packages-cf2025-008-331874.zip. The link for the Jar seems to be update 7 https://cfdownload.adobe.com/pub/adobe/coldfusion/2025/updates/hotfix-007-331586.jar. Should I try the packages and update 7? This is an air gapped system. Thanks!

After migration from CF2016 to CF2025 custom fonts are not used anymore in cfr reports. Replacement fonts are used instead.I configured them in the same way as I did in CF2016. They are displayed in the Server Settings -- Font Management tab.I am using CF2025 Update 8 on Windows 11.Please advise.

I have a new Windows 11 system and have just installed CF 2025 on it. At first the administrator opened properly, but today when I went back to do some more configuration, it refuses to open. Every time I try I get the same message … this site can’t be reached. The URL it is using is http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm I see the CF entry in services and it says it is running. I’m not an operating system guy so I really don’t know what to try next. I reinstalled CF but that didn’t fix it. Would appreciate some advice on what to do next.

ColdFusion 2023 - download and installation linkI have had a hard drive on my server fail and have had to replace the drive. I had ColdFusion 2023 installed and running on the server along with MySQL.I have 2 critical applications that I have developed using CF 2023 and MySQL. I'm trying to find a link so as to be able to download and install CF 2023 on my server again so that I get back into the apps and get them running again.Any assistance in being able to provide a link where I can download CF 2023 will be greatly appreciated. Thank you in advance for sending me a link where I can download CF 2023

A recent update has broken Scheduled Tasks for us.  The small Pause, Resume and Play icons work but we are not able to create a new Scheduled Task or Edit an existing one.  We have CF 2023.0.19.330899 on both local and live servers and does this on both.  It also does this on CF  11,0,19,314546.   Whenever a new task schedule is attempted, or edit an existing one, after hitting the “Submit” button on the form, the browser says “Server sent back an empty page”.  I have tried in different browsers and it gives same results.  Can you help?

The syntax highlighting is one of the most important features for IDEs because they tell coders if there are problems with the code. I'm currently using version 1.0.701 and noticed an annoying problem whenever the “#” is found on the script. CF Builder assumes that every time it encounters a #, it is part of a variable evaluation, which is commonly used in CF tag attributes or between <cfoutput> tags. But in html, the # is used such as in css settings for colour. As a result, we get problems like these:  In this example above, the # is used properly, and is part of standard html that is not parsed by the CF server. Adding a second # tricks CF Builder into thinking that the # has been escaped:  But this is wrong and will cause problems because the final html code that is sent to the end user's browser will contain two #s. The only way to fix the problem is additional CF code:​​​​But this is an inefficient way of handling things. We shouldn't need to nest html tags within <cfout

Hi everyone,I’m working with an XML feed in a ColdFusion project where menu-related data is stored as a comma-separated string inside a single node. Each entry starts with a category or brand name, followed by multiple items, but I only need to display that first value.Example XML (simplified):<cfxml variable="menuData"><catalog>  <item>    <type>Drinks</type>    <details>Cold Brew Coffee, Vanilla Latte, Caramel Mocha, Iced Americano</details>  </item>  <item>    <type>Specials</type>    <details>Holiday Drinks, Peppermint Mocha, Sugar Cookie Latte</details>  </item></catalog></cfxml>What I’m trying to output is just the first part of each details string:Cold Brew CoffeeHoliday DrinksI assume this can be handled with string functions after parsing the XML, but I’d like to confirm the cleanest approach in ColdFusion, especially if the data grows later.This is part of a menu-structuring projec

coldfusion report Calculated Field SumForwardSumForward(Sum:iif((query.SumOfTrainingHours + calc.SumForward  GTE 40),iif(calc.SumForward + query.Carryover LTE 40,query.Carryover,40-calc.SumForward), query.SumOfTrainingHours))I’m not familiar with report query syntax         say querySumOfTraining hours = 20  and query.Carryover = -20      what is the order of processing within the query and what value does calc.Sumforward get as the query proceeds.  And what is the final value for SumForward. ThanksJimBerkes 

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I recently installed ColdFusion 2023 Update 18 and though the installation log says there was only 1 non-fatal error, I am seeing some weird behavior in my web app. The login to my web application validates the user credentials and then redirects to the login page (302 found).However, I want to rule out any procedural errors in the update process first.As per the “Install the Update in Offline Mode Manually” from https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/coldfusion-2023-update-18.htmlDownload the hotfix installer from the link. - No issues. Download the packages zip file from this link and extract its contents to a location accessible to all ColdFusion server instances.I have only one instance, cfusion.  I downloaded the packages.zip folder to a directory called U18 in /opt/cf2023cloud/ Update "packagesurl" in cfusion/lib/neo_updates.xml of cfusion and all its child instances to point to <InstallerRepositoryUnzippedPath>/bundles/bundlesdependency.json present inside the downloaded fo

Environment:- ColdFusion 2023 Enterprise- Development Environment- No HBSS- No Internet AccessIssue Description:We recently attempted to install Update 18 on our development environment. Unlike previous patch installations, the usual steps of stopping the ColdFusion service, clearing the Felix-cache, and restarting did not resolve the issue. Additionally, we downloaded the bundle repo from Adobe, cleared the bundles directory, and reinstalled all components from the `cpfm`, but the problem persisted.Given that this is a virtual machine, we reverted to a snapshot running Update 17, which resolved the issue temporarily. However, we are concerned about the root cause and would like to address it to avoid future complications.Error Details:Here is a sampling of the errors found in the `exception.log`:```"Error","pool-56-thread-1","01/30/26","12:33:51","","URI does not specify a valid host name: E:/path/to/bundles/repo/ib6coreutil-1.3.jar"org.apache.http.client.ClientProtocolException: URI

We’re updating an app from CF2021 to CF2025 but are running into issues with Query of Queries behavior changes and I haven’t seen them mentioned in any of the release documentation.Aggregate functions now return a row if there is no group by clause and the where condition fails.<cfset foo = queryNew( "id,total", "integer,integer", [ { id = 1, total = 25 }, { id = 2, total = 50 }, { id = 3, total = 100 } ])><cfquery name="bar" dbtype="query"> select sum(total) total from foo where id = 20</cfquery><cfdump var=#foo# /><cfdump var=#bar# />The above is an example where the dump of #bar# will have 0 rows in CF2023 and below and will have 1 row in CF2025 with the value being an empty string. If `group by id` is added, all versions return 0 rows.Values that are NULL the database are no longer treated as NULLs and are treated as empty strings instead.<cfset foo = queryNew( "id,total", "integer,varchar", [ { id = 1 }, { id = 2, total = 50 }, { id = 3, tot

I tried to submit a trouble-ticket on the tracker.adobe.com, but I’m getting a 500 error.  Yay.Does anyone have any information on ColdFusion 2023 Enterprise and the Microsoft Visual C++ 2012 Redistributable? This specific redistributable has reached End of Life (EOL) and is no longer supported or patched by Microsoft.  Utilizing EOL software directly violates Risk Management Framework (RMF) and Department of Navy cybersecurity requirements.  This outdated dependency unnecessarily increases the system’s attack surface area.

Hi All,We are migrating from Cf2021 to CF2025.One issue is that QoQ resuts shows empty string when is not data.<cfscript> tempQuery = queryNew("id,name,amt", "integer,varchar,double"); QueryAddRow(tempQuery); QuerySetCell(tempQuery, "id", 1); QuerySetCell(tempQuery, "name", "Marco"); QuerySetCell(tempQuery, "amt", 16); QueryAddRow(tempQuery); QuerySetCell(tempQuery, "id", 2); QuerySetCell(tempQuery, "name", "Troy"); QuerySetCell(tempQuery, "amt", 7); result = queryExecute( "SELECT SUM(amt) AS cnt FROM tempQuery", {}, {dbtype="query"} ); writeDump(result); writeDump(result.recordcount()); result = queryExecute( "SELECT SUM(amt) AS cnt FROM tempQuery where id = 3", {}, {dbtype="query"} ); writeDump(result); writeDump(result.recordcount());</cfscript>ResultThe record count now is 1 for empty QoQ. It shoud be zero.Any solution on this issue?Thanks,JFB

my linter thinks there is an invalid token here, but there isn’tTL;DR: The red squiggle underline is caused, in some way, by the CF Builder extension. It’s wrong, the code and the file are fine, and I want it to go away. Anyone know how to make it go away?Details:I installed this extension a few weeks ago, and I didn’t notice (or I ignored) it at the time, but I started getting these red-squiggle notifications on *some* javascript / JSON files. I finally tried narrowing down the problem today, and after blaming it on eslint for a little while, and/or various rules in my project’s `eslintrc.json` file, I disabled all extensions and the error went away.So I used vsCode’s “Extension Bisector” to find the culprit. I didn’t know this existed till today. Basically it starts by disabling all extensions and reloading your window, and asks you if you can reproduce the problem. You say yes/no, and then it reloads again with some extensions enabled. You repeat the process several times until fina

Is there a way to adjust the formatting settings used by the vsCode ColdFusion Builder extension? I installed the extension mainly to try to take advantage of its code formatting options. Unfortunately the formatting does not seem to obey my vsCode preferences (tab indentation, equal to 2 spaces). It also does almost no formatting of html inside a cfoutput block (all html tags are stacked evenly). Does anyone know if there’s a way to adjust the formatting settings? I would like to recommend this to our team of several developers, as a standard tool for formatting our files.

Hi CF Experts,Recently I have changed my laptop and installed ColdFusion 2023 and installing updated from Update 6. But I am unable to download and Install it from  CF Admin. Below is screen and getting an error Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'cfhf_buildnumber') Can you please help on this. 

I've gone through multiple rounds of installing Windows Server 2022 and following the Lockdown guide to install ColdFusion 2025 and AutoLockdown. Just can't get it to work, have lost a lot of time, and losing hope. Initially I couldn't get it to create the service user for me. May have been the complex password. Whatever. It seems to do that correctly now. After seeing a bug reported elsewhere I have added -Dcoldfusion.runtime.remotemethod.matchArguments=false to the JVM flags and restarted CF before running the AutoLockdown tool. I have checkpoints/snapshots in Hyper-V so that I can start the tool from scratch on each attempt. Attached is the lockdown log if anyone can help me out.

Where the heck do you report a bug?  Now I know why the Adobe developers say they don't have any bugs in their queue.  No one can figure how to report one.I was also told they offer free installation support.  Where and how do you reach them?  I've scoured the website and can't find it.

When I go to a server instance in CFAdmin > Deploy Existing Archive I get the following error:The path xxx.car is not whitelisted in pathfilter in CF2021 update 23.Is there a particular directory I should put the .car file in? Where can I whitelist the file. I don’t see anything under Security to whitelist a file. 

When I try to set the FIPS Mode in Configuration as below:<Listener className="org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener" SSLEngine="on" FIPSMode="on"/> I’m getting error in the coldfusion-error.log: “Failed to enter FIPS mode” and unable to login to CF Admin page. How can I fix this error with enabling the FIPS mode?Thanks!

I’m converting a database from MS‑SQL to PostgreSQL and I need to change the calls to the Stored Procedures.I rewrote them in PostgreSQL, and when I try to execute them, it returns an error saying that the procedure’s cursor does not exist.For example, a call that used to be:<cfquery name="getApp_Version"> EXEC sp_app_version;</cfquery>Was changed to:<cfquery name="getApp_Version"> BEGIN; CALL "public"."sp_app_version"('c1'); FETCH NEXT FROM c1; COMMIT;</cfquery>And the following message appes:ERROR: cursor "c1" does not existI was advised to convert the procedures into functions to solve the problem, but there are too many procedures to rewrite.Is there a way to call Stored Procedures in PostgreSQL without getting this error?

I am trying to use org.jaudiotagger.audio.AudioFileIO to read some tags in mp3 files.  The following lines work correctly: fileObj = createObject("java", "java.io.File").init(lsFileNameWithPath);audioFileIO = createObject("java", "org.jaudiotagger.audio.AudioFileIO");audioFile = audioFileIO.read(fileObj);audioHeader = audioFile.getAudioHeader();bitrate = audioHeader.getBitRate();writeOutput("The audio file bitrate is: " & bitrate);writeOutput(AudioHeader);but If I try anything with tags such as:Tag tag = audioFile.getTag();              orlsArtist = audioFile.getTag().getFirst(FieldKey.ARTIST);I get error messages.  In the first case the error message is “ Variable TAG is undefined.“ and in the second case the error message is “ Variable FIELDKEY is undefined”Any suggestions as to what I am doing wrong?