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Trevor294622528ybt
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November 14, 2023
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Seeking a CF2021 neo-query.xml file

  • November 14, 2023
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Hi - I am new to this forum and while I have asked about this as a response to a different two-year-old thread about neo-cron.xml, I worry that it will be harder to see there because it's off-topic.

Overly simplifying a sequence of events and intentionally eliding full backstory (for now at least), the long and short of it is that I am looking for a CF2021 copy of neo-query.xml because of an error I received (which I can't quote now because a hasty reversion to a pre-update snapshot removed the log entries containing it) which according to references I consulted at the time seemed to indicate a problem with neo-query.xml. I looked and did not find one. The sequence of events that brought me to that point seemed also to have put some binary into my neo-datasource.xml file. 
I would like to know if I should have a neo-query.xml file in CF2021 hf 11 and if so, where I could find a copy. (Charlie Arehart's normally extremely helpful archive of neo*.xml files does not have a version of this file)

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    BKBK
    BKBK
    Community Expert
    April 5, 2024

    @Trevor294622528ybt , since there is no neo-query.xml file in ColdFusion 2021, then it means that recent ColdFusion versions no longer need it. If, as you say, the neo-datasource.xml file contains binary content, then it is possibly corrupt or encrypted.

     

    Chances are, it was encrypted. In fact, someone once asked in this very forum how to encrypt neo-datasource.xml. So, ask around in your team.

    Charlie Arehart
    Charlie Arehart
    Community Expert
    April 5, 2024

    To be clear, for the sake of readers, that discussion there was someone WANTING to encrypt that file, and we were explaining then how it's NOT to be encrypted. CF would not be able to process it if it was, from all my years working with these files with thousands of folks.

     

    And as I noted there, the PASSWORDS in that file are encrypted, as are all in neo xml files, for any cf admin password fields. The person there then asked for clarification on THAT encryption.

     

    So Trevor, if you find the neo-datasource.xml file to be binary, is this really a file being used by cf presently? Or is it perhaps some representation of the files as of some past point in time? Someone could encrypted (or even zipped) the file. But I'm not aware of cf ever leaving or using that file in some binary form. I'd love to learn if there's some case when it does.

    /Charlie (troubleshooter, carehart. org)
    RaviShankar Chagnur
    Adobe Employee
    RaviShankar Chagnur
    Adobe Employee
    November 14, 2023

    Hello Trevor294622528ybt,

     

    Please let us know if you are looking for neo-datasource.xml file, there is no file with name neo-query.xml file

    If possible can you let us know the error that is occurring in the logs

     

    Thanks & Regards

    Ravi

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    Trevor294622528ybtAuthor
    New Participant
    November 14, 2023

    Neo-query.xml is a file that definitely existed in previous versions of Coldfusion, and it still appears in a 2021-dated Adobe list of XML configuration files in Coldfusion (Purpose and location of XML configuration files used in ColdFusion (adobe.com)), but I think what I am hearing is that it's not actually in CF2021 (?).. is this what you are saying?

    RaviShankar Chagnur
    Adobe Employee
    RaviShankar Chagnur
    Adobe Employee
    November 14, 2023

    The information related to datasources will be in neo-datasource.xml, can you please check in the file .

     

    Thanks & Regards

    Ravi

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