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Just patched to CF2021 patch 19 and now htmltopdf does not work. In the logs I am seeing Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: coldfusion.document.DocumentScope not found by htmltopdf [37] I've tried downgrading back to patch 18.Uninstalling and reinstalling htmltopdf package.Uninstalling and reinstalling all the packages.Upgrading back to patch 19.and numerous reboots. The patch notes includeSometimes, you are unable to create a PDF due to PDFg service authentication failure. As a workaround, update the service manager and retry creating the PDF.What does this mean? What service manager and how do I update it?

I just heard of a guy who ran his website from a computer at home and thus avoided having to deal with the issues of shared hosting. Apparently it worked great for him. Has anyone done this before and what would be involved for a coldfusion website? 

After applying CF2021 Update 19, the add-ons would no longer start, so I reinstalled them to resolve the issue. Unfortunately, SOLR reverted back to 7.2.1. I attempted to upgrade to 8.11.3 manually by following "Upgrade SOLR in ColdFusion" steps (https://helpx.adobe.com/coldfusion/kb/upgrade-solr-security-coldfusion.html), but it has not been successful. Can someone provide guidance or possible work-around?Side note: There was no "managed-schema.xml" within the Solr 8.11.3.zip provided on the from the upgrade page.

Post a brandnew CF2025 in Ubuntu linux 22.04.1 installation unable to start the server, I have selected the installation as Developer mode and Developer Profile. Setup an apache2 connector. I am unclear if I should provide the sudo password when promted or the CFIDE admin password as in older versions CF2021 for instance which always required elevation. myuser@myhost:/opt/coldfusion/cfusion/bin$ sudo ./cfstart.shStarting ColdFusion 2025 server ...Your account has expired; please contact your system administrator.su: Authentication failureThere has been an error starting ColdFusion 2025 server, please check the logs.I can't find the logs in /cfusion/logs folder either. Any ideas? 

Hal Helms, one of ColdFusion's great gurus since the very beginning of the language, passed away two days ago. This sad news was shared by fellow ColdFusion guru, John Quarto-vonTivadar, on https://cfml.slack.com/    I remember Hal Helms. I became familiar with the name within weeks of starting to learn ColdFusion more than twenty years ago.    As a good parent conveys something enduring that sustains the child for life, so does  a good teacher convey something enduring that sustains the learner for a lifetime. Hal Helms was one such teacher. My gratitude to him is immense.Condolences to John Quarto-vonTivadar and to Hal Helms' family.

Impacts: ColdFusion 2025 Update 1 In Package Manager: Settings: Notification, there are two email fields:If updates are available, send email notification toIf updates are available, send email notification from Most of the new gTLDs are not allowed and a popup window appears stating that "Following email IDs are not in valid format:' For a list of the new gTLDs see https://tld-list.com/tlds-from-a-z

I am having trouble uploading files after migrating the site from local environment to the web. Following is the relevant section of code from a coldfusion function that uploads files using BlueImp: <cffunction name="POST" access="private" returnformat="json"> <cfargument name="options" type="struct" required="true"> <cfargument name="listing_id" type="any" required="false" default=""> <cfset var result = 0 > <cfset var vThumbnail = 0 > <cfset var fileInfo = "" > <cfset var fileName = "" > <cftry> <cfset fileInfo = GetFileInfo(form['files[]']) /> <!---<cfdump var="#fileInfo#"><cfabort>---> ...In my local environment, selecting a file produces the following, which is a dump of the form variables used by the function:LOCAL DEV ENVIRONMENTThen BlueImp does its thing via the POST function shown above and the <cfdump var="#fileInfo#"&gt

Hello, everyone. After installing Patch 7 of ColdFusion 2023 on an existing application, the CFLOCATION tags stopped redirecting. It was redirecting properly until Patch 6. The page indicates a status code 302 in the 'network' tab of Google Chrome and shows that the next page loaded, but visually, it seems as if it didn’t load. Has anyone experienced this and knows how to solve it? Thank you all for your help.

Hi,I am receiving the error message: "The getSpMetadataForAdmin method was not found." when I click on an existing SP to edit it. I also get the message when I add a new SP. It adds the SP but then throws the error when try to display it. Adding and editing an IDP is fine. I am on CF 2021 Standard. I upgraded to update 12 from 5 and changed the JVM to 11.0.26 and uninstalled and reinstalled the SAML package to try to fix this but I still get the error. It seems manually modifying the neo-saml.xml file does not work either without restarting CF, but that is still unclear. Has anyone else experienced this or know how I can fix it?Thanks,Dom

This server is running ColdFusion 2021 Update 18. I'm attempting to edit an existing Service provider in the SP Configuration section of the Administrator. the page throws the following error in the Application log:  "Error","http-nio-8544-exec-5","04/17/25","08:40:48","cfadmin","Variable KEYSTOREPATH is undefined. The specific sequence of files included or processed is: F:\ColdFusion2021\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\security\spedit.cfm, line: 487"and a similar error in the coldfusion-out log: "Error","http-nio-8544-exec-5","04/17/25","08:40:48","cfadmin","Variable KEYSTOREPATH is undefined. The specific sequence of files included or processed is: F:\ColdFusion2021\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\security\spedit.cfm, line: 487"When I orginally configured this the keystore entry was present. The configuration works, our developers are able to write code against the SP Config, but editing it is not possible. 

My CF2021 box is failing security because even though I have uninstalled the search module from CFAdmin, Jetty itself is running an old version of SOLR inside Lucene.  Here's how I know this: GET http://server:8993/solr/admin/info/system HTTP/1.1 Under lucene: lucene-impl-version=7.2.1 b2b6438b37073bee1fca40374e85bf91aa457c0b - ubuntu - 2018-01-10 00:48:43 lucene-spec-version=7.2.1 solr-impl-version=7.2.1-SNAPSHOT unknown - Administrator - 2022-07-19 19:20:55 solr-spec-version=7.2.1 Is there a way I can disable lucene?  It looks like it's used for indexing/searching, and I have no use for it.

I recently upgraded from Coldfusion 2021 Update 9 to Update 18. I used the package manager to install the update and now I'm getting the message"The Administrator module is not installed". This wasn't an issue on our test instance, but for whatever reason this happened in our production instance (lucky me). The service seems to be running. I just can't get back to the adminstrator site. I tried running the "install administrator" command on CF_ROOT/bin/cfpm.bat but it gives me the following message: "The package adminstrator is not found in the repository."

Hi,Can anyone recommend a 3rd party which I can hook into my webstore to calculate sales tax based on address? I am currently looking at informatica.com and taxjar.comThanks!- Shawn

Hello all,I have been looking to see if there is an answer to this or a "How To" but haven't found one.We have CF 2021 Update 17 web server up and running.We want to move to 2025Is there a way to do an inplace upgrade?On my test box when I run the 2025 install, it doesn't take notice of CF 2021 being installed and running so it just tries to install another instance of CF.So is it possible to upgrade or "migrate" during install?

After applying CF2021 Update 19, the following three services failed to start:Add-on ServicesODBC AgentODBC ServerI was able to get the add-on working again by reinstalling it, but the ODBC services are no longer working. I even rolled back to update 18 and ODBC services are still failing to start. Any guidance with this would be greatly appreciated.  

I wana download Coldfusion 2018, just In my local dont wana make it into the server.Please provide me download link.Its very Important.....

We are stumped ... we've been creating a CF web site for years.  It works fine on all our coders localhosts and it works fine on a commercial CF hosting server.   We just copied all the code into a rack WE own and it simply will not work.   The errors we're getting are db errors.  Table xxx does not exist yet we can see it on our RDP screen.   We've triple checked our settings in our CF Admin console ...  In 28 year of using CF we've never encountered this.  We have cleared our cache ... rebooted our CF server and db server and it still insists it cannot find a table or a field within a table.  We're using an old version CF 2018.  On locals and at our commercial CF hosts.   What (more) clues can I provide to help us fix this.  We're about to throw the rack in the bin.  Many thanks in advance.  

Let me preface this by saying I run ColdFusion 2021 & 2023 as standalone servers, and I do install patches once released.  I have an established process for acquiring and installing updates manually, which I have no intention of changing.  My question is how do I stop ColdFusion 2021/2023 from trying to connect to the Update Site automatically whenever I go to CF Admin> Package Manager?  When I try to open the Package Manager section within CF Admin, the server tries to reach out multiple times to the update site first.  Each attempt takes about a minute to timeout, so it takes 3-5 minutes to actually load the page.  This is not an exaggeration. Yes, I have "Automatically Check for Updates" unchecked.  And "Check for updates every" unchecked.  Doesn't make any difference.  I've tried blanking out and saving the Default URL for udpates in CF Admin.  When I save, it just restores the default value.  I've also tr

I have downloaded the latest version of the auto-lockdown tool from the adobe website and have the latest CF update/hotfix (13) installed. I have tried running the auto-lockdown tool (for Windows/IIS) several times , following the lockdown guide to the letter. I was able to install this on another server with no issue. I have tried the following multiple times: 1. running tool, uninstalling tool , running tool again2. running tool, uninstalling tool, uninstalling CF, uninstalling IIS, deleting the user created by the tool, clearing partitions, restarting server, reinstalling CF, running tool  Everytime I run the tool, it finishes, but says there are errors. In the installation log, the only thing that looks odd is after it tries to remove the new CF user from all groups - it says "Failed to create the user!", but doesn't specify what user it's trying to create (The new CF User account was already created earlier in the process, so maybe it's an IIS User?): 2025-04-1

Hello, We are using ColdFusion 2023 Standard edition. We have an application which contains a CFCHART that worked when CF 2023 was on Update 6. However, now that we have updated to Update 7, the CFCHART no-longer works and is instead showing a red X. The CFCHART is within a CFSAVECONTENT which is then CFOUTPUTed into a CFDOCUMENT so that a PDF can be created. If I remove the CFSAVECONTENT, the CFCHART does display correctly. The CFCHART is in JPG format, but changing the format does not cause the CFCHART to display, only removing the CFSAVECONTENT. However, I do not want to remove the CFSAVECONTENT because I want the overall PDF format. Please let me know what additional information I can provide to help you help me. Thank you very much for your time, expertise, and help.

Is there any chance this will be updated in the future? I am getting a lot of heat from the security people because the scans keep coming back with log4j vulns.The analytics service is using an old version of elasticsearch that requires log4j-1.2.17.jarDoes anyone know of anyway to not usre the analytics service and still run the API manager or know of any work arounds to use a new elastic search? I know we can remove the jndi classes and put some flags on the JVM but the security folks see the file and thats all they care about.This is the case for both coldfusion 2021 api manager and coldfusion 2023 api managerExample directoryC:\ColdFusion2023APIManager\database\analytics\lib

What are the benefits of migrating from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee? I hear the migration itself is fairly smooth. Are there other benefits like more hosting availability, cheaper hosting, etc? What are people's experiences and what prompted you to do it? 

Hi All,  After updating my Coldufsion 2021 server to the latest release (18 went from 2021,0,0,323925 to 2021,0,18,330341) to mitigate vulnerabilities CFR reports stopped working and I'm getting the following errors: coldfusion.runtime.report.Report$ReportCompilationException: Report compilation error.at coldfusion.runtime.report.Report.compileXml(Report.java:840)at coldfusion.runtime.report.Report._compileReport(Report.java:281)at coldfusion.runtime.report.Report.compileReport(Report.java:176)at coldfusion.runtime.report.Report.runReport(Report.java:425)at coldfusion.tagext.report.ReportTag.doEndTag(ReportTag.java:626)at cfrpt_insumos_pdf2ecfm955247095.runPage(/app/residente/rpt_insumos_pdf.cfm:14)at coldfusion.runtime.CfJspPage.invoke(CfJspPage.java:257)at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.handlePageInvoke(IncludeTag.java:749)at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.doStartTag(IncludeTag.java:578)at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:65

Hello,I am currently working on an S3 integration using ColdFusion, and I'm facing an issue when trying to retrieve all the files from an S3 bucket. I am using the listAll() method, but it seems that it only returns a maximum of 1000 files, and I need to handle cases where there are more than 1000 files in the bucket.I understand that Amazon S3 uses pagination for listing objects, and I need to handle the NextContinuationToken to paginate through the results, but I'm unsure how to implement this correctly in ColdFusion.Has anyone experienced this issue or can offer advice on how to paginate through the list of objects in S3 using ColdFusion to retrieve more than 1000 files?Here is the code I'm currently using:<cfset allObjects = bucket.listAll()>Can someone please guide me on how to modify this to handle pagination when there are more than 1000 objects in the bucket?Thanks in advance!

I have tried 5 different locations and they all redirect to the 2018 download page. I have been going from here https://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads.html#cf2021productdownloads and it still takes you to the 2018 download.  I was told by Adobe support to post on the forums as they couldn't provide me with a proper link even though marketing emails and your own site are saying it is available for download.