Debugging problems in 2018

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I've installed the development version of ACF2018 under Apache 2.4 on Windows 10 and was unable to get debugging window to show up for the localhost (or any others). The installation profile is 'development' and I have all the usual options checked to turn it on, but no joy, even for a very simple page on localhost. This always seemed pretty straightforward on prior versions. Did something else change since ACF 10?

I finally got the debugging window to show by removing all the default debugging IP addresses. However when I try 'Add Current' which adds 127.0.0.1 or put in the actual IP address, I get nothing again. It had 127.0.0.1 and the IP6 localhost by default (0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1), and that didn't work. The debugging says CGI.RemoteHost is '::1' which expands to '0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1' when I add it back to the debugging IP addresses. Nonetheless, that doesn't work either. I have FusionReactor and usually don't use debugging on a production server, but every once in a while it's the only way to figure out what the problem is. Being able to restrict the debugging to localhost or a particular address is pretty important. Any ideas?

Charlie Arehart · Accepted Answer

Yeah, like Dave, I got nowhere with trying to edit the Windows hosts file.

Adam, the answer here is simple (though Adobe could make it easier): you just need to add the ::1 to the CF debugging IP list. And no, you can't do it in the Admin (currently). You need to manually add it to the neo-debug.xml file for the instance in question (in the [cf]\cfusion\lib folder).

Find the string that will look like this (your ip address values may be different):

And change it to add,::1 after the 0:1. (And if this forum doesn't show that HTML right, just look in the file for the element called iplist, and add ",::1" to whatever is your IP list.)

Then save it and restart CF for that to take effect, and test things then. I would recommend you keep this file open so that if CF doesn't start, you can easily undo what change you added. To be REALLY safe, it would be wise to save off a copy of the file BEFORE editing it, so that worst-case you could restore that file and restart CF.

Let us know how it goes. I've been meaning to blog about this for a while, including opening a feature request (at tracker.adobe.com) to request that they just put this in by default, like they so for the 127.0.0.1,0:0:0:0:0:0:0:1 values.

pete_freitag · Answer

Try accessing your site by typing 127.0.0.1 in the address bar instead of localhost -- the localhost hostname may use IPv6 (depending on your OS), whereas if you specify 127.0.0.1 it is an IPv4 address explicitly.

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