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CFMail will throw error after update 15 applied. Java version: 17.0.15+9-LTS-24 "Error","ajp-nio-127.0.0.1-8022-exec-3","07/11/25","13:24:45","","Bad type on operand stackException Details:Location:coldfusion/mail/mod/MailImpl.signMail(Ljavax...
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I am observing an outbound connection initiated by the process coldfusion.exe over the SSH port. The destination IP is not flagged as malicious on VirusTotal. Could you please advise if this is a legitimate process behavior by coldfusion, or should I investigate this activity fur...
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Hi everyone,I've been working with the Adobe ColdFusion 2021 AMI on AWS (Windows) and noticed that Docker is installed by default. However, the ColdFusion documentation and AWS Marketplace listing don't mention Docker as a requirement or dependency....
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Trying to wrap my head around this new error I have popping up trying to send an email. This seems to have worked through update 19. I cannot speak for Update 20 because we updated to 20 and then 21 within a few days of each other. I am running the latest approved JVM 11.0.27 from Adobe's site, o...
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For excel files, we use Apache POI. It worked fine until we applied the latest CF Security patch to our CF2023 server. It must have updated POI to the latest version which deprecated some of the functions. I was able to fix one issue, but am not able to see how I can create XSSF...
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Hello, I would like to know if I have coldfusion 2021 can i upgrade to 2023 without additional cost or a new license is required?
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After applying latest security update the file pathfilter.json is totaly empty!Result: logfiles defined in scheduled tasks cannot be written.The message is:"Warning","main","07/09/25","08:55:31","","The specified path: D:/ScheduleLogs/solr_index_docum...
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I'm updating a ColdFusion 2021 installation from V.13 to V.14 when V.14 installed the administrator came up except for the pakage manager page, it throws an error, when I look at the exception log I see the following: "Error","http-nio-8544-exec-7","07/08/25","16:33:29",...
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Problem Description: DateFormat is returning a 9 character date instead of an 8 character one.Steps to Reproduce:1. Add the following to any Cold Fusion page:<cfset testDate = DateFormat(Now(),"YYYYMMDD")><cfoutput>Current Now(): #Now()#<br>T...
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I'm trying to submit a bug report for ColdFusion using the Adobe Bug Tracker ( https://tracker.adobe.com/#/add_bug ) and when I select ColdFusion from the dropdown, the progress indicator just spins and spi...
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Good morning, all. I have code that has been in place for at least 6 or 7 years that generates Excel files. Depending upon the app, the Excel file is either A) made available to the user via download, or B) emailed to a pre-determined email address, possibly CC'ing others...
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On my server, I've got a few scheduled tasks set up. Yesterday, after a while, I wanted one of the tasks to run at a different time. After doing the edits and clicking the "Submit Changes" button, I got this error:Invalid extension of the file name. Valid extensions are :log,txt
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Hello - Developer edition of CF 2025 running locally on a Mac (OS = Sequoia 15.5). DMG installer. A CFQuery to an MS SQL Server datasource produces this error message: 'Error Executing Database Query. The sqlserver package is not installed. You can install the package through the CLI package ...
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Hi Experts,We recently upgraded our ColdFusion 2023 environment from Update 10 to Update 12. After the upgrade, we encountered an issue in one of our applications that handles PDF uploads and validation.Previously, we used the IsPDFObject(mytempPDFObj)
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If I leave my page long enough for the user login session to timeout, then reload the page, I get an HTML rendering of the page. Then if I reload it again, the page renders normally. It happens on at least two pages I have tested so far. Firefox gives an engimatic error "Syntax...
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I'm curious if anyone testing out cf2025, that uses CKeditor has figured out what to do about the out of date messages that it produces when using ckeditor? I will probably just convert them all to regular text areas, its just pretty annoying how its not up to date with cf2025. ...
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Hi All,Hoping someone can provide some pointers to solve this.I was successfully running on CF2023 update 11 but when I went to update 14 Apache Tomcat mod_jk connector stopped working - i've reverted back to update 11 and it still doesn't work - the browser returns 403 Forbidden
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We installed HF 20 on our CF 2021 instance (from HF 19) and saw "Security violation: Scheduled task 'XXX' attempted to execute unauthorized path: F:/Tasks_Logs/xxx.log. To allow it, whitelist the path in cf-root/lib/pathfilter.json against key schedulerexecutionpat...
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In our Coldfusion application there is a PDF form (created in Adobe Professional) that contains a QR code field. The QR code reflects Field X of the form.When I make changes to X in Adobe Professional, a corresponding QR code is printed into the form. However, if I fill out Field X using Co...
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Hi experts, I have an issue with the font size in a pdf file that was generated by .cfm files. With the same .cfm files and .css ( baaically the codes are identical), the font size in the generated report pdf file looks different in UAT and production. I am thinking that i...
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I have a server running 7 instances of CF (6 sites plus root instance). If I run a NetStat, I generally see about 1800 ports as "ESTABLISHED" (see below for a sample). Why so many ports connected to itself? Ultimately what happens is the server just kind of di...
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Using an old server for our internal APP.We also use ColdFusion and O365. O365 will require OAUTH 2.0 as of SeptemeberThe version of CF will not work so I need to update to v18 or v21Support is telling me I can only purchase CF 2025. ...
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In ColdFusion 2021 update 20, there was a change in access to remote CFC methods, requiring explicit cfarguments tags or defining them directly in the function signature. The -Dcoldfusion.runtime.remotemethod.matchArguments flag set to...
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We pushed CF2021 Update 10 with no issues, but four days later a Windows patch was pushed and now we are having an ORM issue. Has anyone ever experience the following error before? ***************************************************************java.lang.ClassNotF...
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I have updated my ColdFusion2021 installation from update 19 to update 20. Everything looked OK during installation but I see the following error in the logs when I try and install the sqlserver package:An error has occurred while installing the package sqlserver. Exception : Illegal chara...
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Anyone else using Sendgrid with Coldfusion 2023? We are using the Sendgrid SMTP API, https://www.twilio.com/docs/sendgrid/for-developers/sending-email/inte...
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Hi thereWe are testing cf2025, found an error with cfdocument and pdf print. The code works fine with cf2023, it could be caused by incompatible bouncecastle library. Can someone help me to solve the issue? ThanksEugene...
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We would like to inform users that certain previously deprecated features and associated dependencies will be removed in the next bug ...
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Adobe never fails to disappoint. This latest hotfix for CF Server triggers an email notifying us that such-n-such variable is "not expected" by a cffunction with access="remote" attribute. Doesn't matter if it's a form that is posting to the cfc, or using URL parameters (...
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if you use the literal word "true" as the value for integer type cfqueryparam, this executes the query with an integer value of "1". <cfif StructKeyExists(arguments, "company_id")> AND tblCompany.company_id = <cfqueryparam v...
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I have some coldfusion servers that are connected to an oracle database and have been having some issues sending queries to the DB from the CF servers. I must also state that both the server and db are quite busy. The issue I am having is that the same query will get processed and shortly after I...
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My CF2023 site has been running perfectly until now when suddenly I'm getting errors related to argument names containing hyphens. I'm assuming it's the hyphen that's the problem.The name FILE-0 used for an argument has illegal characters in it. The site is...
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I inherited a Club website and a copy of CF for Dummies. All went well until my ISP upgraded. Now I can't pass variables between pages. What to do?...
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With "myQuery.ColumnList", I get the list of columns in a database query.Using GetMetaData(), I can then read the data type of each column using typeName.Is there a way to get additional information, such as the length of varchar data types?...
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I'm looking for advices about the rewriting URLs fonction of cfWheels. I'm running an app on Adobe ColdFusion 2025, cfWheels 2.5.1 and CommandBoxI'm looking for rewriting URLs of the website (suppress the"/index.cfm/" prefix) and it works! great! BUT I don't have access to my CFIDE Admin P...
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Hello,I am using cf 23 and facing the issue when trying to communicate with remote api on spring. This is my cf codebase:var url = "
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Has the usage of writedump changed in 2025? I have both 2023 and 2025 running side by side on the same dev server using the same cfscripts. However when i do writedump(var=info,abort=true) to debug soemthing in 2023 i get a proper dump in the response. In 2025 all i ...
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Hello,We are upgrading several machines from CF2021 to CF2023 and are seeing a consistent issue with each upgrade as we go in and try to turn on our ActiveMQ Gateway Instances. The instances won't start and they are throwing what appear to be java JMS errors in the exception logs.&nb...
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I currently have a jQuery ajax call to a third-party API, which checks a vehicle's licence plate against a national database: $.ajax({
type: "get",
url: "https://test.carjam.co.nz/a/vehicle:abcd",
data: {key:key,plate:plate},
dataType: "json...
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Hi,Trying to connect to SFTP site, was getting connection timed out at first. I looked around for others with the issue found some leads. Finally with try/catch when dumping cfftp after the end of try cfftp is undefinded. I have stop on error turned on and secure. I...
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Hi everyone, I'm encountering a recurring issue with ColdFusion 2023 (Update 13) specifically on our PROD DMZ server. We have six ColdFusion servers across different environments — DEV, ACPT, and PROD — each with internal and DMZ configurations. Interestin...
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My company has just notified me of security vulnerabiltiy CVE-2025-31651 which was recently reported. The vulnerability appears to affect Tomcat versions 9.0.0.M1 through 9.0.102 and the only mitigation seems to be updating to version 9.0.104 or later.Does anyone know if Adobe h...
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Hello all, I've been asked to assist with a departments migration away from CF 2018 due to CF 2018 being EoL. Unfortunately, my experience with CF started with this project and the two previous admins that assisted with the CF 2018 setup are no lo...
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I am trying to get the PDF manager to work on coldfusion 2025 (developer addition) running on Ubuntu with Apache web server. I did the full GUI install (ColdFusion_2025_GUI_WWEJ_linux64.bin ) select developer addition, all add ons etc. Did no install the separate addons download. So jetty is inst...
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I have an AWS EC2 instance built from a Marketplace AMI Coldfusion (2023) Update 11 on hardened AWS Linux with ColdFusion Enterprise Lincense (built around Nov 21 2024)I applied the U12 hotfix (on Apr 8, 2025) and users are reporting an error (see attached) stating that we have a developer...
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I'm getting an error while trying to upload files. This works fine on our Production server, but the development server is where I'm getting the error. Both servers are running Coldfusion 2023 Update 13 on Windows Server 2022. Attached is an example of the error I'm getting. I'...
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Impacts: ColdFusion 2025 Update 1 In Package Manager: Settings: Notification, there are two email fields:If updates are available, send email notification toIf updates are available, send email notification from M...
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After applying CF2021 Update 19, the add-ons would no longer start, so I reinstalled them to resolve the issue. Unfortunately, SOLR reverted back to 7.2.1. I attempted to upgrade to 8.11.3 manually by following "Upgrade SOLR in ColdFusion" steps (
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My CF2021 box is failing security because even though I have uninstalled the search module from CFAdmin, Jetty itself is running an old version of SOLR inside Lucene. Here's how I know this: GET http://server:8993/solr/admin/info/system HTTP/1.1
Under...
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Post a brandnew CF2025 in Ubuntu linux 22.04.1 installation unable to start the server, I have selected the installation as Developer mode and Developer Profile. Setup an apache2 connector. I am unclear if I should provide the sudo password when promted or the CFIDE admin password as in older ver...
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Hello all,I have been looking to see if there is an answer to this or a "How To" but haven't found one.We have CF 2021 Update 17 web server up and running.We want to move to 2025Is there a way to do an inplace upgrade?On my test box when I run the 2...
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After applying CF2021 Update 19, the following three services failed to start:Add-on ServicesODBC AgentODBC ServerI was able to get the add-on working again by reinstalling it, but the ODBC services are no longer working. I even rolled back to update 18 ...
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I am having trouble uploading files after migrating the site from local environment to the web. Following is the relevant section of code from a coldfusion function that uploads files using BlueImp: cffunction name="POST" access="private" return...
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I recently upgraded from Coldfusion 2021 Update 9 to Update 18. I used the package manager to install the update and now I'm getting the message"The Administrator module is not installed". This wasn't an issue on our test instance, but for whatever reason this happened in our production instance ...
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We are stumped ... we've been creating a CF web site for years. It works fine on all our coders localhosts and it works fine on a commercial CF hosting server. We just copied all the code into a rack WE own and it simply will not work. ...
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Let me preface this by saying I run ColdFusion 2021 & 2023 as standalone servers, and I do install patches once released. I have an established process for acquiring and installing updates manually, which I have no intention of changing. My question is how do I stop ColdFusion 202...
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Hello, everyone. After installing Patch 7 of ColdFusion 2023 on an existing application, the CFLOCATION tags stopped redirecting. It was redirecting properly until Patch 6. The page indicates a status code 302 in the 'network' tab of Google Chrome and shows that the next page loaded, but visually...
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This server is running ColdFusion 2021 Update 18. I'm attempting to edit an existing Service provider in the SP Configuration section of the Administrator. the page throws the following error in the Application log: "Error","http-nio-8544-exec-5","04/17/25","08...
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I have tried running the auto-lockdown tool (for Windows/IIS), following the lockdown guide to the letter. I have tried this several times and in several ways: 1. running tool, uninstalling tool , running tool again2. running tool, uninstalling tool, uninstalling CF, uni...
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Hi,I am receiving the error message: "The getSpMetadataForAdmin method was not found." when I click on an existing SP to edit it. I also get the message when I add a new SP. It adds the SP but then throws the error when try to display it. Adding and editing an IDP is fine. I am on CF 2021 ...
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Hello, We are using ColdFusion 2023 Standard edition. We have an application which contains a CFCHART that worked when CF 2023 was on Update 6. However, now that we have updated to Update 7, the CFCHART no-longer works and is instead showing a red X. The CFCH...
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Just patched to CF2021 patch 19 and now htmltopdf does not work. In the logs I am seeing Caused by: java.lang.ClassNotFoundException: coldfusion.document.DocumentScope not found by htmltopdf [
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What are the benefits of migrating from Adobe ColdFusion to Lucee? I hear the migration itself is fairly smooth. Are there other benefits like more hosting availability, cheaper hosting, etc? What are people's experiences and what prompted you to do it? ...
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I wana download Coldfusion 2018, just In my local dont wana make it into the server.Please provide me download link.Its very Important........
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Hello,I am currently working on an S3 integration using ColdFusion, and I'm facing an issue when trying to retrieve all the files from an S3 bucket. I am using the listAll() method, but it seems that it only returns a maximum of 1000 files, and I need to handl...
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Is there any chance this will be updated in the future? I am getting a lot of heat from the security people because the scans keep coming back with log4j vulns.The analytics service is using an old version of elasticsearch that requires log4j-1.2.17.jarDoes anyone know of anyway ...
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Since my latest VS Code update I am getting this error in the output console: [Error - 10:08:39 PM] Request textDocument/documentHighlight failed. Message: Internal error. Code: -32603
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I'm trying to generate a map of tradespeople nearby to the site visitor. I've figured out most of it and am stuck on the final part mainly due to my weakness when it comes to arrays, structures etc. Apparently, the api needs an array that looks like:
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Hi All, After updating my Coldufsion 2021 server to the latest release (18 went from 2021,0,0,323925 to 2021,0,18,330341) to mitigate vulnerabilities CFR reports stopped working and I'm getting the following errors: coldfusion.runtime.report.R...
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In the MemberUpdateForm.cfm, I have the following......<cfFORM ACTION="MemberUpdateActionPage.cfm" METHOD="Post">...........<table border="1" height="350">.........<P><INPUT...
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I've run into a bit of a strange issue. I installed CF 2023 and had everything up and running without issue including the Solr server. I left for the day, and upon logging back in this morning, the ColdFusion Collections page was giving a generic 404 error page and is now just not loading anythin...
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We have a working CFHTTP call in our production code on a CF2021 server which works just dandy. It calls an outside party to get a token and follow up with more specific requests using get & put. As part of our enterprise migration process we have cloned the same code to ou...
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When I import the JSON into ColdFusion, the datasource password doesn't work.The log shows this message:Datasource XXX could not be found. Ensure that you have spelled the name correctly and that the data source is registered in the ColdFusion Administrator Data Sources page.
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Hi,using cfoauth at amazon to access selling portal api.If I hard code my clientid, secretKey etc everything works great I get the access_token. I have a query in the cfc component that gets these but if I use them in the <cfoauth tag the process fails - "invalid_client".&n...
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I ran ./cf-init-run.sh install which created /etc/systemd/system/cf2023.service and created the symlink to run it but it doesn't work cf2023.service has the following which doesn't seem right (sysinit doesn't exist) [Unit]Description=Adobe ColdFusion 20...
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I have a CF page "MemberExpress" like below<cfFORM ACTION="MemberExpressRegActionPage.cfm" method="post">..................<dd><B>My Email:</b><cfINPUT TYPE="text" size="30" name="Email" message="Please enter your email address." requir...
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I started evaluating CF2025 a couple weeks ago. I set it up to function through IISThe CF app we developed works as expected under HTTP, so we decided to get a SSL cert to make the server "legit" - after installing the SSL cert, CFCHART stopped appearing on the CFM page. Other basic CF cont...
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I have an CF 2018 Standard install on a windows server. I set up a new install of CF2018 on Azure windows server. I'm trying use the same license. The current install will not be used anymore so that can be disabled if possible. I don't see any way to disable the license ...
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Would greatly appreciate if someone could comment on this snippet from the external session storage doc:Once a session object is received from Redis, there can be changes to the object within the timespan of a given request. The session is persisted (if modified) back to ex...
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I'm thinking about hosting a CF site at Hostek, starting with shared hosting and maybe moving up to a dedicated setup later. I just want to test the site initially. Just wondering if anyone can share their experience with Hostek. As I understand it, shared hosting doesn't give you access to the C...
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Is Adobe going to continue supporting ColdFusion? I have a potential investor/collaborator who is concerned that we may end up having to rebuild the site in DotNet or something because without Adobe's continued support of the product, security of ColdFusion websites would ultimately suffer. He's ...
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I'm trying to get HTTPS to work for accessing the CF2023 Administrator using a signed certificate. It works fine for a self-signed certificate but I want to use a signed certificate. Self-signed certificate works with this Connector code in server.xml:...
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Hello,I am unable to activate our server. I am working in a closed environment and must use offline activation. I followed the process found here - https://coldfusion.adobe....
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My web server is using CF2021 update18 (Log4j version 2.20.0: jmx enabled default: -Dlog4j2.disable.jmx=false).-When I set metaspace = 256, the memory has nearly 2 million elements of org.apache.logging.log4j.core.jmx.LoggerContextAdmin (watched by jmap -dump).-When metaspace = 512, t...
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