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July 1, 2021
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ColdFusion Licensing

  • July 1, 2021
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This may be a dumb question, but I was not at my current employer when ColdFusion was installed.  We have 3 environments (Development, Test and Production).  How do I tell if they all use the same license or 3 different ones?

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    Priyank Shrivastava.
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    Priyank Shrivastava.Community Manager
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    July 1, 2021

    Hi,

     

    You can check if they are using the same/different license. Go to each server and CF installation location. \

     

    \ColdFusion\cfusion\lib and open license.properties file. There you will see "SN" and that is the serial number. 

     

    This location is for version CF10/CF11/CF2016/CF2018/CF2021 standalone installation. 

     

    Thanks, Priyank Shrivastava
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    Dave WattsCommunity Expert
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    July 1, 2021

    Inside the CF Administrator, there's an "info" icon where you can see this, and lots of other information. There's also a license.properties file you can look at. I think this is in the lib directory of your CF instance? I'm not entirely sure.

     

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

    Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC
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      Dave WattsCommunity Expert
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      July 1, 2021

      Oh, and if I recall correctly the licensing for dev and stage environments has significantly loosened over the years. I believe you can use the same license number for staging - and maybe even shared development - as you do for production, and you shouldn't need any license number for individual development instances.

       

      Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

      Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC
        Charlie Arehart
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        Charlie ArehartCommunity Expert
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        July 1, 2021

        Just a clarification on Dave's last point. While cf9 had indeed opened things up, later that was closed (cf10?).

         

        The eula for the past few releases clarify that for each Enterprise license purchased, you can use that licrnse on one other machine for  test/stage/qa/dev. For Standard, it's that you can do that once for every two licenses purchased.

         

        And yes, this is separate from the "developer edition", where you don't put in ANY license. That imposes a 2-concurrent ip address limit, as well as some other modest limitations (pdfs have dev watermark etc).

         

        The eula also outlines limits on network access for non prod license use, dev edition use, etc. Everyone should read the eula. It's not long, maybe 5 mins. It's in the root of any cf install or can be found online. I have a blog post with more on finding it.

        /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
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