cfset works, "Unknown tag: CFOUTPUT."

Report · Aug 09, 2009

New installation, IIS7, CF 8. Try and view a page with following code:

<CFSET>

examplevariable = "This will output, exactly as you expected!">

#examplevariable#

</CFOUTPUT>

When rendered, I get the following:

500

ROOT CAUSE: 
coldfusion.compiler.TagInfoNotFoundException: Unknown tag: CFOUTPUT.
     at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslationContext.findTagName(NeoTranslationContext.java:250)
     at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslationContext.getTagInfo(NeoTranslationContext.java:215)
     at coldfusion.compiler.SemanticAnalyzer.preTransformCftag(SemanticAnalyzer.java:327)
     at coldfusion.compiler.SemanticAnalyzer.preTransform(SemanticAnalyzer.java:44)
     at coldfusion.compiler.Treewalker.postorder(Treewalker.java:21)
     at coldfusion.compiler.Treewalker.postorder(Treewalker.java:27)
     at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:307)
     at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:119)
     at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$1.fetch(TemplateClassLoader.java:310)
     at coldfusion.util.LruCache.get(LruCache.java:180)
     at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache.fetchSerial(TemplateClassLoader.java:254)
     at coldfusion.util.AbstractCache.fetch(AbstractCache.java:58)
     at coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get(SoftCache.java:81)
     at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.findClass(TemplateClassLoader.java:476)
     at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:79)
     at coldfusion.filter.LicenseFilter.invoke(LicenseFilter.java:27)
     at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70)
     at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
     at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
     at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46)
     at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
     at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
     at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:175)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86)
     at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
     at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
     at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

javax.servlet.ServletException: ROOT CAUSE: 
coldfusion.compiler.TagInfoNotFoundException: Unknown tag: CFOUTPUT.
     at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslationContext.findTagName(NeoTranslationContext.java:250)
     at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslationContext.getTagInfo(NeoTranslationContext.java:215)
     at coldfusion.compiler.SemanticAnalyzer.preTransformCftag(SemanticAnalyzer.java:327)
     at coldfusion.compiler.SemanticAnalyzer.preTransform(SemanticAnalyzer.java:44)
     at coldfusion.compiler.Treewalker.postorder(Treewalker.java:21)
     at coldfusion.compiler.Treewalker.postorder(Treewalker.java:27)
     at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:307)
     at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:119)
     at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$1.fetch(TemplateClassLoader.java:310)
     at coldfusion.util.LruCache.get(LruCache.java:180)
     at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache.fetchSerial(TemplateClassLoader.java:254)
     at coldfusion.util.AbstractCache.fetch(AbstractCache.java:58)
     at coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get(SoftCache.java:81)
     at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.findClass(TemplateClassLoader.java:476)
     at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:79)
     at coldfusion.filter.LicenseFilter.invoke(LicenseFilter.java:27)
     at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:70)
     at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)
     at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)
     at coldfusion.filter.NoCacheFilter.invoke(NoCacheFilter.java:46)
     at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)
     at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)
     at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:175)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:89)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:86)
     at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:42)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
     at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
     at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

     at coldfusion.monitor.event.MonitoringServletFilter.doFilter(MonitoringServletFilter.java:70)
     at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapFilter.doFilter(BootstrapFilter.java:46)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.doFilter(FilterChain.java:94)
     at jrun.servlet.FilterChain.service(FilterChain.java:101)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:106)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)
     at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:286)
     at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:543)
     at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:203)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:320)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:428)
     at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:266)
     at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)

Does anyone have any idea what's going on?

Report · Aug 09, 2009

Heh, someone suggested I do the easy thing first, uninstall/reinstall. Yep, that did the trick! 🙂