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I am working on getting ColdFusion 2016 up and having a problem installing hotfix 5.No matter what value I put in as a response to the request:Select the home directory of your  installation. For example, /Applications/For J2EE installation, it is the WAR directory containing WEB-INF, CFIDE and META-INFWhere is  located? (Default: /opt):I get the response:The specified directory is not valid.I tried the top installation directory '/opt/coldfusion2016' and everything that I thoughtpossibly reasonable below that.Help please? Any ideas on this?

I have a scheduled task that sends out a bunch of newsletters every day. It has been running smoothly for more than a year when it suddenly started to run twice - sending out the emails twice and updating the count twice. There have ben no changes to the source code, hardware, operating system, etc. The only change is that upgraded from MX7 to CF8. Each time it sends a newsletter out it adds a record to a log table that is incremented automatically. From the sequencing of these records I know that it is actually running the stored procedured twice in parrallel in as much as the record ids on the duplicate records are always from 1 to 9 records apart whereas the set is more than 175 records long (the sequence gap should be at 175 records apart if it was run sequentially. Also, the CF scheduler log only records the task as having run once. Other scheduled tasks also run twice. The server is a Dell 1950 Dual Zeon server. CF8 is ver. 8,0,1,195765 Standard running on Windows 2003 Stan

Hi Everyone, i still have not found a solution to this. if anyone has any other suggestions please let me know. Also i would like to report this as a bug, what is the proper procedure for reporting this? thanks to all Tim Original- Hi All, i have had issues since upgrading from 6 to 7 with cfschedule. sometimes it runs fine, other times it will run the same task multiple times in a row, other times it will wait an hour then run the same task again. This may not sound like a big deal, but the tasks send out several thousands of emails. talk about spam!! I have been screamed at on a weekly basis to make this stop. Now since the the DST change, the tasks that were scheduled at 3pm run at 3pm and again at 4pm!! Please someone help!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Thanks in advance. Tim

Hi,I'm running ColdFusion 10 Enterprise on a RHEL 6 server and have come across an intersting behaviour in relation to the scheduled tasks we have setup.We noticed that after a reboot of our ColdFusion server that the scheduled tasks weren't running correctly.When I looked in the http.log file I could see that it was trying to execute the correct template"Information","DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-9","10/25/13","07:18:16",,"Starting HTTP request {URL='...', method='get'}"But the request never appears to be completed. When a task successfully runs you would expect to see a completed line as well in the http.log file"Information","DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-9","10/25/13","07:18:21",,"HTTP request completed  {Status Code=200 ,Time taken=4896 ms}"For some reason after the server reboot the task is triggered, but it never runs and never shows as being complete.I was playing changing settings in the scheduled task and checked the Save output to a file check box. As soon as I did tha

This issue just started this morning, has never happened before:I remoted into my Coldfusion server via Remote DesktopI opened IE and tried to log into the CF Admin pageThe browser just kept spinning, page never displayedThen I started getting calls from all of my users saying that all the CF sites were down!To fix:I had to reboot the server.Notes:If I try browsing to the CF Admin page, all of the sites go down again?If I don't try to browse/open the CF Admin page, the CF sites stay up and run fine.Specs:Windows Server 2008 R2 DatacenterColdfusion 9 MySQL 5.5IIS 7.5

<cfsearch name = "mySearch" collection = "mycollection" criteria = ' 2016' type="standard" startrow="1" maxrows = "100"> returning Error executing query : Unexpected EOF; was expecting a close tag for element <str>on another isnastance testing one of the samplesEncountered " "}" "} "" at line 1, column 22.??Was expecting one of:?? "TO" ...?? <RANGEEX_QUOTED> ...?? <RANGEEX_GOOP> ...?? Any ideas?Thanks-Kevin

Windows Server 2008, Coldfusion 9 (32-bit)Not sure why, but the neo-cron.xml keeps getting re-written to become a 0 byte file. (This file takes care of the scheduler tasks.) It was fine before the 9.0.1 upgrade. Whenever I can't log into the Coldfusion administrator, I need to reload the file from my backup copy, save it and reboot Coldfusion Service.For those that need a basic neo-cron.xml file because you do not have a backup, I was able to get one from the Internet. Simply use notebook and copy this into the neo-cron.xml located at /Coldfusion9/lib/<wddxPacket version='1.0'><header/><data><array length='2'><struct type='coldfusion.server.ConfigMap'></struct><boolean value='false'/></array></data></wddxPacket>After you restore your scheduled tasks, be sure to copy it some place where you can restore it from.It would be nice if I did not have to restore this every few weeks. If anyone has some ideas as to why, I am open to te

Hi all,Recent issue that has started with the server.  Every weekend at roughly the same time the coldfusion server service just stops.  I have nothing in the CF logs to tell me as to why it just stops.  Windows event logs simply says :Event error 7024 The ColdFusion 11 Application Server service terminated with the following service-specific error: The system cannot find the file specified.If you go in and restart the service it starts back with no issues.  I have the latest and greatest patch (installed the patch to see if that corrected the issue), but no good.Running on Windows server 2012.

I recently migrated a legacy Windows 2003 Server running several ColdFusion 8 websites to a new Windows 2012 virtual server running ColdFusion 11. After much testing, everything is pretty much running smoothly, with one exception. I have a few Scheduled Tasks that are setup in ColdFusion Administrator with a "Timeout (in seconds)" value ("7200") that is greater than the "Timeout Request after seconds" value ("60") set in the Server Settings > Settings. When any of these Scheduled Tasks runs, they timeout at 60 seconds.Is this a bug, a known issue, or expected behavior? Will using CFSETTING with a "requesttimeout" value within the template file resolve this?Thank you,Eric

I have CF 2016 installed and at one time the CF administrator was working. the sort cut to the CFIDE/administration is does not server up the web page any longer. CF is working on the server the websites are still running.my sites are under WWW the coldfusion default is under wwwroot. IIS default is WWW and does not include wwwroot. I'm guessing that's the problem. but again it did work at one time. I think the answer may be in IIS? is there someplace I need to look for specific CF configuration in IIS?Thanks you,Mike

Hello, we recently installed a security update from Microsoft (KB4019276) on our Server 2008 (non R2) Enterprise server to remediate TLS 1.0 vulnerabilities on our web server. Since applying the patch the Coldfusion Scheduler is no longer functioning. I do not want to remove the patch since it has resolved the vulnerabilities at hand.Please note, the URLs for each scheduled task are non-SSL links and all the links are currently active and worked prior to the patch. If I run it manually from the list I get the following message:There was an error running your scheduled task. Reasons for which scheduled tasks might fail include: The scheduled task is paused The URL is a redirection URL. The URL is protected by IIS NT Challenge/Response or Apache .htaccess password. The Username and Password text fields for editing a scheduled task are intended to support Basic Authentication only. The Domain Name lookup failed. Try using the IP address of the domain whenever possible. The URL is an SSL s

I am running ColdFusion 11 Developeron Windows 2012 R2.  I have a total of 15 instances running.  They all run fine without issue.  However, I tried applying the latest patch(chf11000013.jar).  When i run the update it only gives me the option to update a handful of the instances.  i was able to successfully apply the patch to those but now I cannot get the others to update.Below are screenshot of the running instances as well as the update screen only showing a few instances available for update(it is always the same ones that appear in the list).Instances:Available when running upgrade:

Hello,JDK9 is now release. When will CF2016 be supporting JDK9?https://docs.oracle.com/javase/9/whatsnew/toc.htmThe current update for CF2016 update 5 herehttp://blogs.coldfusion.com/coldfusion-2016-update-5-and-coldfusion-11-update-13-released/in part says:For the security fixes in these updates to be effective, ColdFusion 2016 should be on JDK 8 u121 or a higher version, ... The use of latest JDK update is recommended.Since the latest JDK is now 9 rather than 8 (8u144), when will CF2016 support JDK 9?Regards, Carl.

I am updating a CF10 server to CF2016. We ran into issues that stored procedures were not executing because the dbvarname attribute in the cfprocparam now required a colon to indicate an oracle database.Originally, the error referred to a database failure of some kind (can't remember exactly what it is.) I prepended each dbvarname with a colon and it appeared to be working fine. Now, I have been given another piece of the website that hasn't had this done yet. While I was updating and doing some testing, it appeared that the error changed. The error is now"The value '' cannot be converted to a number."and it happens after the stored procedure. This error returns if dbvarname="", dbvarname="xxx", or dbvarname="(actual name)". The code works correctly when dbvarname has ANY value as long as a colon exists, including dbvarname=":" It appears that the actual value for dbvarname is being ignored and the cfprocparams are being treated positionally, if I switch the cfprocparam lines, it chang

Hello people, I'm having an issue within a Coldfusion application.The user logs in and access a page. The page contains two links: one to another cfm page and the other one to an image.1. If I copy the URL of the image and then log out from the application, and then paste this URL into the address bar of any browser (which is within the same path) I will be able to see the image. This shouldn't be happening, the Application.cfm page should redirect my request to the login page.2. However, if I do the same thing with the other link, the one that will take me to the cfm page, then the Application.cfm page will redirect the request to the login page, as it should.Anyone with an idea how to avoid the behavior described in item 1?Thank you

DollarFormat(1214.225) is returning $1,214.22.  I would expect $1,214.23.  I think I would have noticed this before and I am wondering if it a CF2016 issue or is this the normal behavior.Thanks!

Hi :is Coldfusion 10 by the tomcat CVE-2017-12615 and or CVE-2017-12617 vulnerabilities?Thank you in advanceted

Hi, Just recently I started this tutorial for CFML. Going through this course was pretty straightforward and almost without a hassle. But now I have hit a brick wall at using coldfusion components. I followed the instructions in the video and the assignment but I stumble upon this error and cant figure out what is going wrong. As I am adding the references to the different functions in the component i stumble upon an error. The reference to the getNewsYears function is at the top of my code(as the assignments says). But the output is somewhere at the bottom. The Error below keeps popping up.I cannot find any info on frequent mistakes made during the tutorial. Can anybody see what I am doing wrong?

Hi, I need help. I've all but given up.Running cold fusion 2016 on windows pro 8.1 and using ms sqlsvr 2014 all  running on the same machine and using localhostI've tried several configurations and i end up with basically the same dead end .I've tried to set up dsn's on windows. I've downloaded JDBC files  but not sure where to install and configuredError MessageConnection verification failed for data source: myfoodsourcejava.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot open database "food_migration" requested by the login. The login failed.The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Cannot open database "food_migration" requested by the login. The login failed.Thanking you in advanceJoe

I am connecting to the unsplash api (it allows free images to be used in websites) and the problem is that up until today everything was working fine. The user would enter a keyword and it was then sent using the following code:<cfhttp url="https://api.unsplash.com/search/photos" method="get" result="fetchSplash"> <cfhttpparam type="url" name="client_id" value="xxx"> <cfhttpparam type="url" name="query" value="#url.unsplashme#"> <cfhttpparam type="url" name="page" value="1"> <cfhttpparam type="url" name="per_page" value="20"> </cfhttp>JSON was being sent back with image information without any problems but now I get the following error:I'm at a loss as to what the problem could be as nothing has changed on our server and if I test their url like this in a browser I get results ((ID number has been removed):https://api.unsplash.com/search/photos?client_id=xxx&page=1&query=officeAny help appreciated!

Hi,can someone tell me how much the ColdFusion 2016 (Standard and Enterprise) for education licenses are in the UK please?I've found on the Adobe website that you can purchase these licences, but can't find anywhere that tells you the actual cost.Many thanks,James

Hello,I have an existing/working CF10-SQL 2008 DataSource that I need to make encrypted. I have added the following connection string to the advanced setting of the DSN: EncryptionMethod=SSL; trustStore=C:/ColdFusion10/jre/bin/cacerts; trustStorePassword=PASSWORD; ValidateServerCertificate=true;The SSL certificate for the SQL server was issued with the FQDN and resides on the SQL and ColdFusion servers and was loaded in to the CF certificate store. When verifying the DSN, I receive the following error:Connection verification failed for data source: TestSSLDSNjava.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQL Server JDBC Driver] SSL Handshake failed: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested targetAny assistance would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello, all,My boss is working on an addition to our site that has a form to submit that a user can use to submit a complaint.  He is using a custom-made CAPTCHA that is randomly generating a three digit number and setting that to a session variable.  The form handler page then compares what the user entered to the session variable.  But the JSESSIONID is changing on every click, etc., so when the handler gets the form, it's a new session and the values do not match.What can we do to make this work?V/r,^ _ ^

My ColdFusion 11 app is working fine on my local machine (Windows 10). But when I open any .cfm file in Eclipse or even in a Notepad, I get the content - such as the following - that is not readable. It was not happening before. How can I make the files readable again?

Folks,I am trying to signature the SOAP request through digital certificates. It is provided by client.I installed the certificates in both key-stores JAVA and ColdFusion cacerts(\lib\security\cacerts). I verified by key-store get instance. In addition, I followed two different approaches.METHOD 1I am using the cfhttp tag for send request and this tag has clientCert and clientCertPassword attributes. So I wrote the code like,<cfhttp url="#arguments.endpoint#" method="POST" result="local.result" clientcertpassword="#variables.constants.keyStorePassword#" clientcert="D:/ColdFusion2016/jre1.8.0_131/lib/security/sign.pkcs12"> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Accept-Encoding" value="gzip,deflate" /> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="SOAPAction" value="#arguments.soapAction#" /> <cfhttpparam type="header" name="Content-Type" value="text/xml;charset=UTF-8" /> <cfhttpparam type="xml" value="#toString(xmlParse( arguments.soapEnvelope ))#" /></cfhttp>It is retu