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I've gone through multiple rounds of installing Windows Server 2022 and following the Lockdown guide to install ColdFusion 2025 and AutoLockdown. Just can't get it to work, have lost a lot of time, and losing hope. Initially I couldn't get it to create the service user for me. ...
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Hello Community,I have inheritted some ColdFusion servers (2021). That has been running great so far but recently, I encountered an odd issue with one of the servers. The issue is that the server stopped processing requests on all instances, whether from websites, APIs, etc. I have tr...
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Let me start, I do know about the changes in Update 14 related to "extra" arguments, and this is not the same issue, but I think it might be related. The error is that a paramerter can not be found when making a call to a remote function in a CFC. Here is the ...
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Hi, all. I will be installing CF2023 side-by-side with CF2021 on an important server soon, and I have some questions related to my particular situation that I have not been able to answer by searching the Web: In the CF2023 Administrator, in Package Manager -> Set...
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Hello, everyone. About a week ago, our SA and DBA started a migration from CF2021 to CF2023, we are experiencing a couple of odd issues, and the weird thing is - it's limited to just one project. No other projects are experiencing these issues. The issue is in our c...
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Hi,We are experiencing this cache issue, we have 4 instances and one instance, we have this issue, We manually cleared the cache and uncheck all the cache options and restarted the service but still we got issue, Any help would be greatly...
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I have been trying to download 3023 and 2025 versions of ColdFusion, but have been unable to. The download link takes me to a trial form: https://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/down...
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Hi,The issue I have is that I have a bunch of emails that were undelivered because the password of the email addresse used for CFMail was changed. I was not aware of the problem for a day or so. So, there a bunch of undelivered emails. I am able to update the passwo...
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How can I host a Static coldfusion website for free?
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Hi everyone,I'm trying to better understand how install ColdFusion on Linux as a non-root user.From what I know, ColdFusion shouldn't be run as root for security reasons — instead, it should run under a restricted "runtime user" (for example,
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Subject: Planning CF21 to CF23 Migration in 2026 - Security & Support Concerns?Current Setup:ColdFusion 2021, Version 2021,0,02,328618 (Update 2)Planning to migrate to ColdFusion 2023 in 2026
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Hi,I came across something odd while working with ColdFusion 2021 . I have an array of structs representing student data and I'm trying to build a nested struct using arrayEach. Here's the code:<cfscript>
arrayData = [
{
"name": "...
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First off – thanks for all the fantastic help so far. Just one last issue to resolve. Can I clear down the input fields once the user presses Submit to update the database?Otherwise if they press the submit button again, it add more (duplicate) records to the...
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Been banging my head against this server for a few days now. We are currently working with ColdFusion 2021 on update 21.While using cfcompile, we received an error concerning jsafe not being found. From what I can find, update 14 phased this encryption out in favor of a more modern standar...
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We have recently migrated our Coldfusion 2021 environment to Coldfusion 2023 on Windows Server 2022 using Oracle JDK 17.0.16. We've noticed that on Coldfusion 2023, whenever we restart the server, there is a chance that each instance will generate a JVM error log & dump file in Coldfusi...
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I am trying to run the ColdFusion 2025 Auto-Lockdown on ColdFusion Update 4. At first it was failing with the following error in the application log: Function getAdminSettings does not support adminpassword as an argument in ...CFIDE\lockdown\lockdown.cfc. ...
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Objective------------Creating a new page which allows you to amend dates in a table on the display, which then creates a "change log" in a SQL database table. How it should work--------------------------Page displays a variable list of rows, an...
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Recently we updated our Coldfusion 2021 server to update 22 and are now getting several errors with packages, we followed the instructions from this
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I have a newsletter that gets the title of a post, the first 200 characters, then if there are more than 200 characters, text that says [... more].The title is a link. I'd like the [... more] text to also be a link, but that is coming from a cfset.Here is the title t...
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Cannot use the data entry field on the page (this must be so basic, but I cannot get it to work)In the extract below NEWVALUE field is not recognised Process :The user selects a case and is taken to another page that displays a list of entries linked to a case (so...
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I have a internal coldfusion 2023 application running on Windows 2022 server OS with IIS. We have been using MS SQL authentication to connect to the SQL database but organization recently changed policies to use Windows authentication using Kerberos ONLY. I am able to sucessfully connect to the d...
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Does anyone know if there is a PMT 2023, and if so, where is the installer - i can only find the installer for pmt 2021
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I'm adding service bus integration using the azureservicebus package in ColdFusion 2023 update 16. I can send messages to a queue but I haven't been able to schedule a message for later processing. I've followed the documentation here
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Just upgraded to CF2025 and am seeing this below in the coldfusion-out.log file at random times but almost every minute or more. What is it and what would it be doing. The only thing i could find with "sentiment" in the file name was this..."\\cfusion\jetty\work\jetty-127_0_0_1-8997-solr_wa...
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I understand that bytecode execution limitations were introduced with the Hotfixes earlier this year (2025), but I am suddenly running into new problems with this. I have recently been trying to implement CF Enterprise 2021 Hotfix 22 over a successful install of Hotfix 21, and I have got it worki...
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I have followed the instructions and downloaded the CF2025 package. I unzipped it and put it in an accessible folder on my desktop. Each time that I double click on cfinstall.bat, I get the following 2 messages in the install log:2025-10-08 14:43:05 INFO - Welcome to the ColdFusion Setup W...
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Hi all. I've been asked by a client to upgrade a production server from CF2021 to CF2023. While researching the existing server configuration, specifically what "server profile" is being used for CF2021, I was able to find in the original installation log that "Development Profile" was chosen. I'...
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I just noticed that the Adobe ColdFusion Builder extension for Visual Studio code is no longer avaiilable. Is Adobe moving on to something else?
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Hello, We are currently trying to upgrade fuseguard from 2.4 to 3.6. However , we wanted to see if we can still keep the old one intact and the new one in audit mode or something ,so we just see the logs but nothing gets blocked using ...
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Each time we restart the instance, even without any user traffic at all, cpu will eventually jump to 24-25% and stay there.In some cases this will double, which then makes the site using the instance slow and unresponsiveProblem Statement
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Hi All, I updated Coldfusion 2021 to release 21 which is supposed to have Apache POI 5.41, after a Tenable scan I get a Folder that is named WEB-INF-BUE-bk coldfusion2021/cfusion/wwwroot/WEB-INF-BUE-bk/lib that still has the 3.9 libraries, so I'd like to know if I can...
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Hi all. I have a very pressing iseue I was hoping you could help with, as we have an important UAT server down. I installed the CF 2023 license today. I got a message after license entry that said CF server needed to have access to the Internet to work for certain license types...
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We need to encrypt data using AES/CBC/PKCS7. However the CF encrypt method only accepts AES/CBC/PKCS5Padding. Any idea how to achieve this? We are using CF 2016....
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I keep getting this error: ERROR: transport error 202: bind failed: Address already in use ERROR: JDWP Transport dt_socket failed to initializ...
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I am running a CycloneDX security scan on the latest ColdFusion 2021 Enterprise WAR file for my application (HF22). I am getting 160+ vulnerabilities reported, most of them either Critical or High. I have some questions about these: 1. Most of these seem to be related not to th...
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Hello, We have been using SonarQube for code quality testing of our applications. However, I was wondering what would be the recommended one for ColdFusion files. I know that SonarQube officially doesn't support .cfm or .cfc files(although there is some third party plugin). So,...
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I recently purchased the Adobe 9A0-019 exam practice questions from SkillCertExams while also studying with the official Adobe material. The combination worked really well for me — the official guide helped me understand the concepts in depth, while the practice questions gave me a chance t...
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I will be upgrading an Azure machine from ColdFusion 2021 to ColdFusion 2025. As Windows Server 2025 has been out for almost a year now, I would like to configure the new server with the latest version of ColdFusion and Windows Server. The latest ColdFusion 2025 support matrix ...
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Hi,We use docker locally and have an issue now with latest 2023 version. We are getting the following error wherever a component is called on a page which has a type on cfargument. Removing the type allows the page to load without error. The error we see is as follows
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Current application runs on ColdFusion 2021 using SAML. We have setup up the SP and IDP configuration in CF Admin and it has been working for half a year. Installed ColdFusion 2023 on the same server as ColdFusion 2021. Used the CFSETUP utility to export and import the spconfigu...
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Afternoon folks New build of coldfusion 2025 on Ubuntu. Apache version 2.4.52. On starting the apache service, I periodically get this:Sep 17 16:01:00 intranet01.tectcorp.com systemd[1]: Starting The Apache HTTP Server...Sep 17 16:01:0...
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All, I have an app that's been working _mostly_ flawlessly for over five years. It's a rates lookup table that uses Excel sheets as a read-only database. There are two years of rates per line of business (ie, Air Passenger rates for FY2025 and FY2026).
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I installed 2021 and I am trying to bring up the website and I get this error: "The feed package is not installed". Ok, so I think I can just install it. But none of our servers have internet access. So I see that a local repository is possible. I can't use the "cfpm...
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We recently received a vulnerability report on Apache Tomcat 9.0.106 from our security team and have been instructed to upgrade to 9.0.108. Are there steps to manual upgrade Tomcat within ColdFusion? If so, can you kindly provide guidance?...
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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:
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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?
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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...
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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 ...
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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...
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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.
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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...
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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...
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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...
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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 $CF_2021_DIR/jre/lib/security/cacerts and import them to the new server?Is it the via scripts or can just cacerts file be copied over?
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Hello, I have installed coldfusion 2025 over docker, i have configure everything and import all settings except for one, CUSTOMTAGS it is not working on any way, see image attached, a fresh export cant be imported back, idk if im doing something wrong but it is not even working...
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Hello all, I'm currently working on a project using ColdFusion 2023, and I need to programmatically apply Sensitivity Labels to Word and Excel files. I'm not sure how to do this, and I also don't know if ColdFusion have any native integration with the Microsoft Information Protection SDK. My goal...
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Hi everyone,I'm working on a small food-related project in ColdFusion where I need to pull menu data from an XML feed. The feed has both restaurant names and menu items mixed into one "keywords" field.Here's a simplified version of the XML:<cfxml variable="menu">&...
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Using SendGrid API fails in CF2025: `Error","scheduler-6","08/17/25","13:01:49","","coldfusion.wddx.Base64Encoder$InvalidEncodedStringException: '' Can not decode string "SG". The input string is not base64-encoded.` I did open a bug report:
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On Thursday, the error below began appearing after the last 2023 coldfusion update on my cfindex code that is atleast 10 years old. I found removing the .dot file extension from my extensions list stopped the error from occurring. However, .docx files will not index now. I trie...
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Our internal vulnerability accessment tool has identified a sever threat (Malware alert) in the coldfusion installation path. We are getting frequent alerts. Just need help from the forum to fix this issue. • Threat: Backdoor:PHP/Dirtelt•...
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I'm using Cold Fusion 2016. I know the ODBC DSN works because I can use Excel to connect to the same AS400 DSN using it.As you can see in the screen shot I can also connect via the C:\ColdFusion2016\cfusion\db\slserver54\tools\ivcheckodbc.exe utility.I've tried restartin...
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I have created 2 Javascripts to visualize and hid specific fields. These fields have the properties "hidden" When activating the Java script these fileds become visible, exactly how it should. But when de-activing a Java script the properties of these fields changes ...
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CF 2021 Windows SErver 2022 -- My setting is curring 20 MB i can not change it - i can noty even lower it if i try i get a message that says in admin Important notice about last submissions... BUT it does not give me any notice. If i try to even change 20MB and lower it i get that message. I need...
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Initial Assumptions and Red HerringsThe issue began when an application running on ColdFusion 2023 appeared to stop responding. All signs initially pointed to a .NET or database connection issue. This assumption was made based on the browser developer tools, which show...
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Without going into to much detail, we basically have 0 control over anything at my company. So we're resigned to doing manual Coldfusion 2023 updates on our developement machines. On our actual servers we can use the adobe update site.Manual updates seem to have a lot of quirks, so it woul...
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I have had a nightmare trying for two weeks to get CF2025 installed on a brand new linux server. I spent 2.5 hours on a call with CFSupport and they could not help me, and in fact made it worse. This has been the worst experience, and I do not think I could ever recommend...
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Hello all,With Code Analyzer scanning our files. With all it fines. Is there a way to export all that is found?So you don't have to go one by one through each finding.Thank you....
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How do I go about updating my cold fusion installtion from CF2021 to the latest version if I have purchased through AWS Marketplace?
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Team, I understand new install will go separate drive/folder etc. Also will need run seperate website due to Connector separate instance etc. I know i can share same JDK installation. My question is not clear when documentation says t...
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Good morning, all. Been getting a flood of error emails generated from production. Related to Apache POI, but something I have never heard of, before. com/zaxxer/sparsebits/SparseBitSet
java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError&nbs...
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Hi All,I can't seem to figure this out, so any help would be appreciated. Might be a bug with CF2021. I got 2 websites with cfapplication name AAA & BBB both under same domain, https, using www If I login through one app usin...
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We have been using CF for a long time. Yesterday we had a power cut and after a restart the following is happening (just a test page to identify issues): <cfquery datasource="#mydb#"&g...
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Hi,I administrate a few ColdFusion 2023 servers on windows. I perform an off-line update whenever a new update comes out. I carry out these following steps:1) Download new hotfix and packages from Adobe Website2) copy these files into the Bundles directory of ColdFusion
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Getting the error for all rest services on a subset of our production servers: Cannot resolve PropertyFilter with id 'coldfusion.runtime.Struct'; no FilterProvider configured Appears to be the same error as:
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Hello everyone, I have an error or detail when reloading with reload. I previously added the mapping in REST, but when I run it, it only shows me {} but it doesn't show me if I reload it or any status. I'm using the developer version CF25. Do you know if this is normal or if I need some other add...
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Hi all, I've just purchased a ColdFusion 2025 Standard Edition license, and activated my trial version. From my understanding, it should be valid for one year. However, in the ColdFusion admin panel, the license is showing as valid only until October 20, 2025 whic...
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I got the infamous architecture mismatch trying to set up an ODBC Data Source from Cold Fusion(2011) to an AS400 data source(1st screentshot).Since it took me two days to track this one down I thought I'd pay it forward by showing you how I fixed it in the hopes of saving someone some time...
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