Activate license for ColdFusion 2023

[Manoj36229141q88d]

Hello,

I have installed CF 2023 with a trail edition  which turned out to be developer edition.

and now currently have a license for enterprise.

I'm not quite sure how to convert the developer edition to enterprise. as ,  when I'm trying to activate the license from CF admin console --> license & activation. it shows "Please enter a valid serial number."

I'm thinking I should have a separate installer for enterprise edition? register the CF product with the license to get the installer?

Can someone provide guidance on how this would work to go with an enterprise edition? 

Thanks.

[Charlie Arehart]

Jeff and Manoj, since you found that only the offline activation works, I'd like to ask you both: are the servers in fact offline (no internet access)? That would certainly explain why that solution worked and was needed. Otherwise it really is as simple as dropping the serial number into the license and activation page to convert the trial or dev edition to standard or enterprise--without even need of a restart, let alone any reinstall.

Or maybe you'll say your server IS online/has internet access. In that case, perhaps it's that when cf reaches out to the url used for activation, that request is blocked. Maybe you have a firewall, a/v, or other security tool limiting outbound connections. Note that the cf doc page about activation lists the domain names that are called, if you need to white-list them. 

Be aware also that if offline activation was required (and cf can't reach the server to check on that activation), you'll have to deal with this in ways discussed above/in those docs.

As for truly air-gapped servers, well, folks running those are used to dealing with (or learn to deal with) the challenges that imposes, all for the sake of security of course. 🙂 

[SajanM]

Hello Manoj,

I'm trying to do a offline activation of CF2023 and looking for help.

Once you have the generate_request.cfm  and place that in cfusion/wwroot folder, what is the next step?

Now sure how to run it? Can you please advise?

Thanks

Sajan

[Dave Watts]

You can run it from the offline server console using a locally installed browser or wget/curl etc. The URL will look like this:

http://localhost:{listening number for instance}/generate_request.cfm

Usually, the listening port for the built-in CF web server will be 8500, I think.

[SajanM]

No luck...

I just did the above and the page was blank, no response on the page. (8500 is the port)

Also, there is no json file in cfusion/bin/config folder per the documentation.

Thanks

[SajanM]

Got the file. it was in the .config hidden folder 🙂

All good. Thanks for the help!