ColdFusion Posts Around the World
Lucee Blog
Lucee 7 address some long standing annoyances with CFPROPERTY
complex defaults are supported
default values types are preserved
Lucee Blog
Lucee 7 address some long standing annoyances with CFPROPERTY
complex defaults are supported
default values types are preserved
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel explores the fascinating "previous" and "next" mechanics that htmx uses in its "hx-target" attribute....
Ortus Solutions
At first glance, keeping an older ColdFusion or CFML application running might seem like the safest and most affordable choice. After all, if the system still delivers the required functionality, why change it? The reality is very different. Behind the scenes, legacy CFML is quietly draining resourc...
FusionReactor
Making the Right Choice for Your Organization The decision between adopting ColdFusion 2025 or optimizing your current version isn’t about following industry trends—it’s about making the strategic choice that delivers maximum value for your specific applications and business obj...
Lucee Blog
I was just curious with how people using IIS are dealing with duplicate requests when the socket connection goes away and the browser re-submits the request?
I see this frequently in the IIS logs represented by the first request getting a sc-status of 200 along with a sc-win32...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel discusses the "Rom-Com Crisis"; and how more people need to start watching more romantic comedies....
Lucee Blog
I have a somewhat similar question. I upgraded to 6.2.2.91 last night, and immediately ran into an issue with the /rest not being able to find application.cfc (where a bunch of components were set). I tried all manner of fixes with applicationproxy but in the end, I took the quick wa...
Lucee Blog
Hello,
I never tried to do something with an S3 bucket with Lucee, and the search function does not accept the search term "S3" since it is too short ^^
How can I create directories and upload files on an S3 bucket with Lucee? The S3 extension is installed.
Thank...
Ortus Solutions
The Future of UI Development with CBWIRE is the easiest way to build modern, reactive interfaces in applications powered by CFML and now BoxLang. Inspired by Livewire and Alpine.js, CBWIRE removes the need to write large amounts of JavaScript and lets you focus on what ...
Ortus Solutions
In today's fast-paced digital environment, organizations are expected to deliver new features, ensure uptime, and modernize infrastructure—all at once. Yet, maintaining a full-time DevOps team can quickly become one of the largest line items in your budget.
The good news? You don't have to cho...
Lucee Blog
I've re-added the .lex to /opt/lucee/tomcat/lucee-server/context/extensions/installed
(it should have a confirmation if you accidentally click on Uninstall instead of UPgrade as I just did). Oops.
Any tips?
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FusionReactor
For the fifth consecutive year, FusionReactor has earned prestigious recognition from G2, the world’s largest and most trusted software marketplace. This milestone isn’t just about accumulating awards – it’s about the consistent trust our users place in us year after ̷...
Charlie Arehart - Server Troubleshooting
An update for ColdFusion has been released, Sep 9 2025, for each of cf2025 (update 4), cf2023 (update 16) and cf2021 (update 22). In brief, it addresses a single P1 (Priority 1, "Critical") security vulnerabilities, along with an indicated update to...
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Ortus Solutions
102 ColdBox Tips and Ticks by Luis Majano
ColdFusion
We are pleased to inform you that we’ve released security updates for ColdFusion 2025, 2023, and 2021 releases. For more information, see the respective tech notes: ColdFusion (2025 release) Update 4 ColdFusion (2023 release) Update 16 ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 22 The updates address an...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
We are pleased to inform you that we've released security updates for ColdFusion 2025, 2023, and 2021 releases. For more information, see the respective tech notes:
Ortus Solutions
CommandBox isn't just a powerful CLI for CFML, it's also packed with tools to make ColdBox development faster and more efficient. In this tip, we'll explore some of the most useful ColdBox-specific commands that can make your development life easier....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
This is strange. We had a problem a few days ago that got solved here, related to updating the certs on a Windows server, IIS 10, running ColdFusion 2023 update 5. So now I have a cfhttp call, using https and a get call, which usually works, but sometimes gets a 500 error. What happens is that St...
Lucee Blog
I have upgraded my Tomcat 9 to use Tomcat 11. I used express version witch comes with Lucee 6.2.2.91 and Tomcat 11.0.9. It worked out. The scan reported vulnerability and need to be upgraded to Tomcat 11.0.10. What will be easiest way to perform the upgrade?
Just download the ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi all, This morning I noticed that I cannot see any of my submitted or voted-on support tickets in the Bug Tracker: Issues Created: 0 ...
Ortus Solutions
Legacy systems often linger because they "still work." In today's fast-moving digital landscape, however, relying on outdated ColdFusion or CFML applications is not just a technical inconvenience—it's a strategic roadblock. While competitors move quickly with modern frameworks and cloud-native...
FusionReactor
These performance killers are silently destroying your ColdFusion applications—here’s how our experts use FusionReactor to identify and eliminate them quickly Your ColdFusion application is running. Users can access it. Everything seems fine on the surface. But underneath, silent perf...
Lucee Blog
I ran the following test code using the various engines on Trycf :
path = "/foo//bar//baz";
writeoutput("List: " & path & " (<i>delimiters</i>=""/""; <i>includeE...
Lucee Blog
OS: lucee/lucee:6.2-nginx
Java Version: 21
Tomcat Version: 11
Lucee Version: 6.2.2.91
Hi Everyone,
First post here so would like to say Hi and introduce myself. I'm an engineer based on Bri...
Lucee Blog
having some issues with mappings moving from multi to single mode... (upgraded)
cant see any mappings created in admin from within app code... any ideas? it's almost like the sitestill has a context (as id did in 6.x single mode), now on 7, have to put code in relative directo...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I'm trying to do a manual install of CF2023 update 15 and I know I'm doing something wrong because the packages aren't getting installed. I downloaded hotfix-packages-cf2023-015-330825.zip and unzipped it to directory /appl/CF2023-15-installer/bundles/. I update...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
cf version: CF2023u15, OS: WindowsI have a component "excel.cfc". The component has functions that creates objects of Apache POI classes and use various methods of those POI classes to perform excel manipulation.ColdFusion's latest POI jar (v5.4.1) isn't compatible with ou...
Ortus Solutions
102 ColdBox Tips and Ticks by Luis Majano
What is CommandBox and why is a key tool for ColdBox users?
CommandBox isn't just a powerful CLI for CFML—it's also packed with tools to make ColdBox development faster and more efficient. In this tip, we'll explore some of the most useful ColdBox-spec...
Ortus Solutions
Every growing organization eventually runs into the same challenge: the DevOps backlog. Deployments get delayed, infrastructure tasks pile up, and new initiatives stall because your team is already stretched thin. The instinctive reaction is often to hire more staff—but recruiting, onboarding,...
Lucee Blog
Just a minor stable release, includes some fixes backported from 6.2, for users on 6.1.1, who haven't upgraded to 6.2 just yet.
While we recommend everyone upgrade to 6.2.2, this minor release is for companies with large codebases, still using 6.1.1 who haven't been able to do...
Ortus Solutions
We're thrilled to announce the release of two powerful new tools that will transform your BoxLang development experience: the BoxLang Developer Pack and BoxLang Theme for Visual Studio Code and Open VSX! �...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I need to limited access to the SOLR web application to localost. The server it is running on has both IPv4 and IPv6 and in the jerrty/etc/jetty-ipaccess.xml in this section:<Set name="white"> <Array type="String"> <Item...
Ortus Solutions
ContentBox has always been more than just a CMS, it's the beating heart of Ortus Solutions and the backbone powering our sites and applications. For over 13 years, it has grown alongside ColdBox, constantly adapting to modern development trends. Now, with the arrival of BoxLang, ContentBox is t...
Gregory's Blog
In this article, I will demonstrate how to retrieve page properties using the PageContext object, which is available in ColdFusion and Lucee. This is a much more modern and efficient method than using CGI variables, which are often unreliable. ...
CFchimp
Here is a helpful workspace configuration option(s) that allows you to set the default terminal profile (terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.YOUR_OS) to CommandBox in VSCode terminal. This allows you to launch CommandBox by default when you open a terminal in the workspace. Further, you c...
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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
These tasks have been running nightly without trouble. Then we installed a new SSL cert on IIS 10, and now they all fail. I can run each task from my browser, but if I try to run one from the task scheduler, now it fails. Restarting CF after the new cert does not fix it. ColdFusion serves the man...
Ortus Solutions
August was a month of significant progress for Ortus Solutions and BoxLang. From major releases to educational resources and international events, here are the highlights from the month...
Ortus Solutions
BoxLang 1.5.0 has landed, and it's packed with features that will transform how you build modern applications. This isn't just another incremental update—we've reimagined performance from the ground up, making BoxLang faster, smarter, and more scalable than ever before....
Lucee Blog
(Unsure if dev, dev-support or language...)
After the feedback about the "slow" OOO implementation of Query(), I had a deeper look at cfquery().
The function has 2 parameters, name and result. From my point of view,
Ortus Solutions
For many organizations, ColdFusion has been the backbone of mission-critical applications for years. But running on outdated versions like ColdFusion 9, 11, or 2016 comes with serious risks that can no longer be ignored. Security vulnerabilities, lack of support, and compatibility issues are just th...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello everyoneI have a valid CF 10 license that worked until yesterday.Since this morning, all my reports have been displaying the following message:"Adobe Coldfusion Developer/trial edition. Not for production use."Do you know anything about this?
FusionReactor
The FusionReactor Consultancy Methodology: A Framework for ColdFusion Performance Optimization When your ColdFusion application starts showing signs of performance degradation, the temptation is often to throw monitoring tools at the problem. Install an APM solution, set up some das...
Lucee Blog
This is my suggest: add datatype of property even when the property is not yet valued.
Lucee Blog
I've just filed a PR to fix the Ortus ORM extension with Lucee 6, tho it seems to also fail with just Lucee 5.4 light, anyway the PR should fix all that.
We always test extensions with light to avoid any interdependencies between extensions.
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
i have had 3-4 iis cf sites running for a long time. I went to setup a new iis site. I did not mean this to be a cold fusion site, but when I set it up, it configured it with the cold fusion parameters. My new application is supposed to just be a reverse proxy to point to a Python Windows se...
Ortus Solutions
Continuing our "102 ColdBox Tips and Tricks" series, let's explore a powerful feature introduced in ColdBox 6: the when() method. This method simplifies conditional logic by allowing you to chain execution blocks based on boolean values in a clean and fluent way....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have several templates in their own Application that I run as CF Scheduled Tasks. Each template has the same basic functionality - call a CFC to make a request to an external API via CFHTTP and save the data in the response to the database using SQL Stored Procedures. All of them run fine with ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Good morning, and happy Friday to all! I have been searching, without success, to locate an authoritative document that spells out (in English), the method by which the CORRECT NUMBER of ColdFusion Enterprise licenses is determined. My job is on the acquisitio...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I know there have been questions posted about ColdFusion's Report Builder and talk of "maybe" something coming back in CF 2023 or CF 2025. So far, I have been unable to find anything other than dated questions and comments. I was able to find a copy of - ColdFusion_ReportBuilder_WWEJ.exe, which I...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello Community,Yesterday night, our application (running on ColdFusion 2023) suddenly went down without any warning. The application was not accessible, and all requests were failing. Here's what we tried so far:Checked logs in GCP (Google Cloud ...
WRIS Web Services
Part 3: When No Framework is Somehow Better Than YOUR Framework - a reality check for every ego-fueled “framework” cobbled together in 2014. From thousand-line utility files to hardcoded business logic, these aren’t frameworks—they’re landmines. Here’s how...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Using Coldfusion2023 update13 developers edition. When I try to update to either update14 or update15, the Oracle package goes invalid. The package management tool says it is installed, but the Coldfusion engine says that it is not installed and all my Oracle queries fail. I tri...
Ortus Solutions
BoxLang isn't just another programming language, it's a bold leap toward rethinking how we build for the JVM and beyond. But what truly makes BoxLang powerful isn't just the technology. It's the people behind it....
Lucee Blog
We have another RC for Lucee 7 up and ready for testing. There have been additional snapshots since this was published, best to test with them.
Lucee 7 includes all the latest fixes from the 6.2 releases, plus
further
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I am trying to uninstall CF2021, while an active version of CF2023 is running. I have tried uninstall from the command line as administrator and right click uninstall as adminstrator, and it just spins. So far over an hour. Do the CF2023 services need to be stopped to uninstall the previous versi...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I forget what update broke CF Server. The one where if any variable in any scope is passed to a CFC function, but it's not in the CFARGUMENTS at the very start of the function, then CF throws an exception.I have a .cfc, let's call it "myFunction.cfc", where there is a function ...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates an Adobe ColdFusion bug in which nested array iteration causes closed-over variables from being accessible from within a closure.... ...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates an Adobe ColdFusion bug in which the CFQuery tag leaks SQL statements to the output buffer....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Scheduler tasks is having issues recognizing "$" in the allowed output paths in pathfilter.json. I was getting warning on server.log and task was not allowed to run:"Attempted to schedule task with unauthorized path: C:/$myPath/**;" After some troubles...
Lucee Blog
I've added a new recipe to docs
Lucee Blog
You won't believe this: after more than a decade, Mango Blog finally has a new version!
For those who remember, Mango Blog was powering so many of our personal blogs back in the early 2010s. It was flexible, and fun to extend. Then... time passed, life happened - a pregnancy, ...
FusionReactor
When it’s time to upgrade your ColdFusion installation, you might want to run the new version alongside your existing setup for testing, gradual migration, or maintaining legacy applications. This approach allows you to test your applications thoroughly before fully committing …
Ortus Solutions
Welcome to the first of 10 FREE tips and tricks in our "102 ColdBox Tips and Tricks" Book! In this post, we'll show you how to easily access system environment variables within your ColdBox configuration files, making your app setup smoother and more flexible!...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I'm moving to a new server running Coldfusion 2025 and have run into an issue when trying to load pages from the server that contain % encoded UTF-8 characters. I get from pages with French characters in a folder/path, e.g.
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
ColdFusion Adminstrator 2023 returns a "Failed to add HTML header" error when I try "Export Server State" in the Package Manager. This happened on Update 14 and continues to happen after Update 15. I made sure (from another thread referring to this error) that "Disable up...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Greetings,I'm having a problem setting up the server portion of the CFBuilder plugin for VS Code. FWIW, I am running CF2023 using CommandBox on my MacBook Air. What I'm trying to do is set up the sever section of the plugin. In the local s...
Ortus Solutions
The BoxLang World Tour continued its journey across the globe, and this time it landed in Japan. On Friday, August 22, Luis Majano, CEO of Ortus Solutions and creator of BoxLang, presented "BoxLang: A New Dynamic JVM Language" to the Japan Java User Group (JJUG).
This event marked another milestone ...
Ortus Solutions
In today's fast-paced technology landscape, businesses need to innovate without inflating costs. Licensing fees, infrastructure demands, and hidden charges can quietly drain budgets, slowing growth and delaying modernization. The BoxLang Pioneer License changes that....
Ortus Solutions
As part of the BoxLang World Tour, our CEO Luis Majano recently had the honor of presenting to the Japan AWS User Group in Tokyo. The session, titled:
Building Dynamic AWS Lambda Applications with BoxLang,
brought together cloud enthusiasts, developers, and architects eager to explore how BoxLang is...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi, we are looking into better XSS (Cross-site scripting) prevention.We have the "Enable Global Script" protection checked in CFAdminWe have modified neo-security.xml to include a regex to remove various unwanted tagsWe have queryparamed all querysWe ar...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello,We are migrating Coldfusion from Centos 7.8 [CF2021] to Ubuntu 22.24 [CF2023].I was wondering what are the best methods to export $CF_2021_DIR/jre/lib/security/cacerts and import them to the new server?Is it the via scripts or can just cacerts file be copied over?
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello, I have installed coldfusion 2025 over docker, i have configure everything and import all settings except for one, CUSTOMTAGS it is not working on any way, see image attached, a fresh export cant be imported back, idk if im doing something wrong but it is not even working...
Gregory's Blog
GalaxieCache is a wickedly fast custom tag that saves generated partial page content as a static page to the file system or RAM. Depending on your usage, GalaxieCache is one of the fastest caching solutions and uses native ColdFusion and Lucee cfinclude's to render the content....
Lucee Blog
Hi everyone,
I have been diving into different programming languages & frameworks & I am trying to figure out the best way to balance learning theory with hands on practice. I started with some basic scripting to understand syntax then moved into building small apps to...
FusionReactor
Over the past few months, we've introduced a series of enhancements to FusionReactor designed to advance observability, simplify troubleshooting, and bring AI-driven capabilities into your workflows. Together, these updates represent a significant step forward in how engineering teams can monitor...
Lucee Blog
<cfscript>
dump(LSCurrencyFormat(-1, 'none', 'de_DE'));
</cfscript>```
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FusionReactor
Last month, our ColdFusion app started acting up again.Memory usage was spiking, error logs were piling up, and every time we thought we'd found the root cause, something else broke. We were doing what every developer has done at some …
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello all, I'm currently working on a project using ColdFusion 2023, and I need to programmatically apply Sensitivity Labels to Word and Excel files. I'm not sure how to do this, and I also don't know if ColdFusion have any native integration with the Microsoft Information Protection SDK. My goal...
Lucee Blog
So, in my ongoing quest to figure out what was going on with Multi Mode security in my previous post ( Attempting to Update Lucee from 5.4.3....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi everyone,I'm working on a small food-related project in ColdFusion where I need to pull menu data from an XML feed. The feed has both restaurant names and menu items mixed into one "keywords" field.Here's a simplified version of the XML:<cfxml variable="menu">&...
Ortus Solutions
One of the most powerful aspects of CBWIRE is how it brings reactivity and interactivity to your BoxLang and CFML applications using a server-driven approach. To understand how it works under the hood, let's walk through a common example: the Counter component from the CBWIRE Int...
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