Hello,

I need to bind an existing website (which up to this point did not have any CF files) to an existing ColdFusion instance.

I know how to do that, however, I can't afford to restart the entire web server for the changes to take effect.

There are over 50 websites that can't go down just because one website needs to be added to a CF instance.

My question: is it possible to add an existing website to an (existing) ColdFusion instance without restarting the web server?

Environment:

IIS 7

ColdFusion 9 Enterprise

Windows Server 2008 64-bit

Hi,

I'm running ColdFusion 10 Enterprise on a RHEL 6 server and have come across an intersting behaviour in relation to the scheduled tasks we have setup.

We noticed that after a reboot of our ColdFusion server that the scheduled tasks weren't running correctly.

When I looked in the http.log file I could see that it was trying to execute the correct template

"Information","DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-9","10/25/13","07:18:16",,"Starting HTTP request {URL='...', method='get'}"

But the request never appears to be completed. When a task successfully runs you would expect to see a completed line as well in the http.log file

"Information","DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-9","10/25/13","07:18:21",,"HTTP request completed  {Status Code=200 ,Time taken=4896 ms}"

For some reason after the server reboot the task is triggered, but it never runs and never shows as being complete.

I was playing changing settings in the scheduled task and checked the Save output to a file check box. As soon as I did that and put in a valid path the scheduled task started to run and complete. If I uncheck output to a file the task will continue to run until the ColdFusion server is restarted. As soon as the server restarts it reverts back to not running. However if I leave the output to a file option checked and restart the CF server the task runs and completes as expected!

One other thing I noticed was that the catalina task (check for update/hotfix) would execute and return while the other tasks (quartz) wouldn't.

Has anyone seen anything similar or have any suggestions? For now i'll just make sure my tasks all output to a file, but if there was a way to fix it I would much prefer to do that.

Thanks

Simon

I've been having this problem recently with our server and I've never seen anything like it before.  I'm hoping someone in the community might be able to give me some guidance...

We run a ColdFusion 10 Standard server (recently patched with update 12), which handles about 30 requests per second on average.

Lately, we've been experiencing some very odd performance issues, so I've been leaving FusionReactor open on my screen pretty much all day long.  And what I've noticed is really bizarre.

Periodically, the metrics graphs will show a drop-off in requests from the usual 20-40 to 0.  This last for about 5 seconds, and when the requests come back, they shoot right up to the max (our server set its max at 100).  It's almost as if something is blocking the requests from getting through for those few seconds, and then we get flooded all at once.  Either that, or FusionReactor isn't properly recording the traffic.  At one point this morning this was happening every minute or so, such that our server was just choking on the requests and we were forced to just reboot the whole machine.

Has anyone experienced this before?  Or might be able to point me in a good direction?

Hi,

I am trying to fresh install ColdFusion 9.0.2 on IIS7.5 ( Windows 2008 R2 ).

Options : Enterprise Multiserver configuration.

After install, when  I open CFIDE/administrator or any CF page its throwing error as below :

HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found

The page you are requesting cannot be served because of the extension configuration. If the page is a script, add a handler. If the file should be downloaded, add a MIME map.

Thanks.

I haven't touched ColdFusion in probably close to 5 years and I'm totally lost on how to manage the application server.  I have a friend who's server is getting hacked quite viciously right now.  They have uploaded a shell using a ColdFusion administrator exploit.  They have nicely hidden the shell, so I'm unable to locate it.  Previously I would search for all instances of CFEXECUTE in *.cfm pages and I would find it quickly and remove it.  I would like to disable CFEXECUTE all together, but the hackers have mangled the ColdFusion Administrator to the point that when I go to the security tab, I am redirected out of the Administrator all together.

Is there a configuration setting in an XML file perhaps that I can adjust to disable CFEXECUTE or is the setting in the ColdFusion Administrator the only option?

Thank you for any assistance anyone can offer.

We have ColdFusion10 (update 17) Standard Edition installed on a Windows 2008 R2 server. It has been installed and running fine for a couple years, but in the last few weeks we have had trouble starting the service. After reboot it wouldn't start automatically or through a .bat file that checks to make sure it's started every morning. It also would time out starting from the Server Manager console. We were able to start it from the command line using net start "COLDFUSION 10 APPLICATION SERVER", but now it will not work that way either.

The logs do not appear to show anything unusual as far as I can tell. The only way we have been able to get it started is to run cfstart.bat in the cfusion\bin directory. The websites are available, but the actual service is not running (at least as far as windows monitoring is concerned).

This error is showing up in the server event log when we try to start the service:

One possibility that we have wondered about is that Microsoft .NET Framework updates could have possibly broken it. That was the only update installed before it was broken this past time. The service has taken a while to start up in the past, but never so long that it times out and we couldn't start it from the Server Manager. And we have never seen it fail to start at all multiple times in a row. To be clear, it fails EVERY time, even if you try 20 times in a row.

We are considering rebuilding the server, but I would really like to just fix this one. Who knows if it could happen again. Thanks for any feedback.

We started with a working instance of Windows Server 2007 R2 using IIS 7 with Coldfusion 9 Enterprise Edition installed that hosts multiple sites (in fact its still currently running now).  Made an exact copy of it to a new instance.  It worked just as the old one did though we could only run each site through localhost as the old domains have not been transferred over to point to the new server.  We uninstalled Coldfusion 9 Enterprise Edition and then installed Coldfusion 11 Standard Edition.  This is of course where things started going horribly wrong.

Being a new install using the Coldfusion Web Server Configuration we added all the sites. At first just nothing worked.  500.* errors always.

Multiple tries of removing and adding sites through the config manager didn't work, then we noticed that Coldfusion 9 had not properly uninstalled and removed its vestiges from IIS.  AboMapperCustom was still listed in all the site's Handler Mappings.  Force removed that, one more cycle of the Coldfusion config manager and finally coldfusion files seemed (more on that later) to be properly being served up.

We then started to add the datasources.  Pulled up a site (through localhost) that used one of the datasources and got a 500.* error.  Got an end run around looking on the web for solutions, come to find that not even CFIDE/Administrator wasn't working.  More hair pulling later updated Coldfusion 11 to update 7 (was at 3 if I remember correctly).  127.0.0.1/CFIDE/Administrator started working at least.  Removed and added sites through Coldfusion config manager again. Got the general http://localhost/ to work, CFIDE/Administrator does not work (won't accept http verb post, even though its properly configured to do so everywhere we can figure).  Could not find a good solution for that anywhere so as a test we tried navigating on the site to pull up another page and that is when we started getting .cfm served up as downloads.  These files served this way are neither pure text cfm files nor are they html files with improper headers confusing IE.  These have encoded data that a text editor can't read.

http://localhost/ works.

http://localhost/index.cfm forces the weird download of encoded garbage (5KB file turns into 412KB).

http://localhost/guides/ works.

http://localhost/guides/index.cfm does not.

I have seen zero working solutions on the web for this, which is rare.

Good morning, I am seeing this warning on all instances of ColdFusion on one of our servers. It was patched to Update 7 this morning and those entries were not there before.

Below you will find the excerpts from coldfusion-error.log file before Update 7 was installed and after (I have skipped some lines that show stopping logs for easier readability). After seeing this warning, I did some research that suggested turning on TldLocationsCache logs, which I did by uncommenting this line:

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level = FINE

in:

${catalina.home}/conf/logging.properties file

However, I don't know where to find these logs; they are not in coldfusion-error.log or the coldfusion-out.log files. Can someone point me in the right direction finding those logs? Thank you

Original log file (Nov 12 - last run before Update 7 was installed, Nov 23 Update 7 was installed):

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:30 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init

INFO: Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.33 using APR version 1.5.1.

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:30 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener init

INFO: APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:32 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener initializeSSL

INFO: OpenSSL successfully initialized (OpenSSL 1.0.1m 19 Mar 2015)

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:33 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-apr-8699"]

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:33 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-apr-8099"]

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:33 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal

INFO: Starting service Catalina

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:33 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal

INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.54

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:39 AM org.apache.catalina.util.SessionIdGenerator createSecureRandom

INFO: Creation of SecureRandom instance for session ID generation using [SHA1PRNG] took [109] milliseconds.

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:40 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:40 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 25.60-b23

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:59 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info

INFO: jetty-9.0.7.v20131107

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:59 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info

INFO: Started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler@617d2d63{/,null,AVAILABLE}

Nov 12, 2015 10:51:59 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info

INFO: Started ServerConnector@54144f4a{HTTP/1.1}{0.0.0.0:5517}

Nov 12, 2015 10:52:01 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646

Nov 12, 2015 10:52:16 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor

INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor G:\ColdFusion11\INSTANCENAME\runtime\conf\Catalina\localhost\custom-cfscripts.xml

Nov 12, 2015 10:52:17 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor

INFO: Deployment of configuration descriptor G:\ColdFusion11\INSTANCENAME\runtime\conf\Catalina\localhost\custom-cfscripts.xml has finished in 454 ms

Nov 12, 2015 10:52:17 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start

INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-apr-8699"]

Nov 12, 2015 10:52:17 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start

INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-apr-8099"]

Nov 12, 2015 10:52:17 AM com.adobe.coldfusion.launcher.Launcher run

INFO: Server startup in 48151 ms

Nov 23, 2015 7:10:24 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardServer await

INFO: A valid shutdown command was received via the shutdown port. Stopping the Server instance.

... (skipped some line in the log file here for better readability)

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:06 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent

INFO: Loaded APR based Apache Tomcat Native library 1.1.33 using APR version 1.5.1.

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:06 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener lifecycleEvent

INFO: APR capabilities: IPv6 [true], sendfile [true], accept filters [false], random [true].

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:07 AM org.apache.catalina.core.AprLifecycleListener initializeSSL

INFO: OpenSSL successfully initialized (OpenSSL 1.0.1m 19 Mar 2015)

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:08 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["http-apr-8699"]

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:08 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol init

INFO: Initializing ProtocolHandler ["ajp-apr-8099"]

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:08 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardService startInternal

INFO: Starting service Catalina

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:08 AM org.apache.catalina.core.StandardEngine startInternal

INFO: Starting Servlet Engine: Apache Tomcat/7.0.64

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:14 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig execute

INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:15 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: Starting application services

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:15 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: ColdFusionStartUpServlet: ColdFusion: VM version = 25.66-b18

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:32 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info

INFO: jetty-9.0.7.v20131107

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:32 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info

INFO: Started o.e.j.s.ServletContextHandler@40e1a832{/,null,AVAILABLE}

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:32 AM org.eclipse.jetty.util.log.JavaUtilLog info

INFO: Started ServerConnector@419f3f{HTTP/1.1}{0.0.0.0:5517}

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:35 AM org.apache.catalina.core.ApplicationContext log

INFO: CFMxmlServlet: Macromedia Flex Build: 87315.134646

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:58 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor

INFO: Deploying configuration descriptor G:\ColdFusion11\INSTANCENAME\runtime\conf\Catalina\localhost\custom-cfscripts.xml

Nov 23, 2015 7:59:59 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.TldConfig execute

INFO: At least one JAR was scanned for TLDs yet contained no TLDs. Enable debug logging for this logger for a complete list of JARs that were scanned but no TLDs were found in them. Skipping unneeded JARs during scanning can improve startup time and JSP compilation time.

Nov 23, 2015 8:00:00 AM org.apache.catalina.startup.HostConfig deployDescriptor

INFO: Deployment of configuration descriptor G:\ColdFusion11\INSTANCENAME\runtime\conf\Catalina\localhost\custom-cfscripts.xml has finished in 1,333 ms

Nov 23, 2015 8:00:00 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start

INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["http-apr-8699"]

Nov 23, 2015 8:00:00 AM org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol start

INFO: Starting ProtocolHandler ["ajp-apr-8099"]

Nov 23, 2015 8:00:00 AM com.adobe.coldfusion.launcher.Launcher run

INFO: Server startup in 57486 ms

a few times a day I am getting this error - how do I fix it?

Hello there,

I updated my CF server with the latest update and FCK editor does not work anymore. When page is generated, it has

<script type="text/javascript" src="/CFIDE/scripts/ajax/ckeditor/ckeditor.js"></script>

line, but, I think, it should be

<script type="text/javascript" src="/CFIDE/scripts/ajax/fckeditor/fckeditor.js"></script>

How can this be sorted?

Thank you,

Anton

In order to run the latest and greatest ( and somewhat tweaked) CKeditor version, I had the folder in CFIDE (...CFIDE\scripts\ajax\ckeditor) and used javascript in the  source file to call it rather than the bundled FCKeditor.

I have been applying all the CF updates as they come and never run across this issue before, so posting in case it helps anyone else out.

After running the updater for 12 from the command line -as we have the server locked down- on my Dev box, the folder was no longer there. Interestingly though, the last backup, named  12017ckeditor, was still in the directory.

I figured this was good motivation to get 4.7 up and tested in dev, did so, fixed my other issue (multi-line titles in CFchart), and deployed the update on my production server.

I again saw the ckeditor folder deleted from CFIDE\scripts\ajax. Copied over my new version from Dev and all is well.

My only convern would be if this is a trend in updates to remove unexpected items it will make keeping the bundled components updated a more gruesome task :/

Hi,  I just rebuilt a CF 8 server and after installing and configuring reviewed the server settings.  Below is a part of the JVM Details section.

User Home is set to "C:\Documents and Setting\TEMP".  I want to change this to "C:\Documents and Setting\Default User"  but cannot figure how to do this.   Where/how does CF8 store these values.    I checked all of the .config, .properties and .xml files withing the Coldfusion8 folder that was created during the install.

My server is running as a stand-alone server.

Any help would be appreciated.

We've recently installed CF9 on our primary server and after the install everything was running fine. However after a reboot the server CF9 App Server refuses to start (it's set to automatic startup in Services)and chucks the following error

"Windows could not start the ColdFusion 9 Application Server on Local Computer. For more information, review the System Event Log. If this is a non-Microsoft service, contact the service vendo, and refer to service-specific error code 2"

Reinstalling ColdFusion clears the problem but after any server reboot it returns.

Any ideas?

Thanks

PLS HELP!

Im trying to setup an Apache Web Server for my Coldfusion Site (does that sound right?). Im able to follow a guide http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/setup_dev.html#articlecontentAdobe_numbere dheader
I followed the guide but when i run my site via localhost it wont auto run the index.cfm (i have to click it in order for it to run), but if I place an index.html it will autorun.

Pls. can somebody help me. I need help

This might be a small problem, but im a newbie, ive just started web development a month ago and im kinda lost right now

THIS IS WHATS HAPPENING:

Exhibit A

Exhibit B

Exhibit C

I am trying to use a jdbc/mysql connector. The issue is that the connector is compiled in a later version that what is installed in Coldfusion MX 6.1. I have downloaded and installed the Java 6 SE JDK and installed it. Here is my JVM config file.

#

# VM configuration

#

# Where to find JVM, if {java.home}/jre exists then that JVM is used

# if not then it must be the path to the JRE itself

#java.home=C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.6.0_45/jre

#java.home=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_45\\jre

#java.home=C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.6.0_45

#java.home=C:\\Program Files (x86)\\Java\\jdk1.6.0_45

java.home=C:/CFusionMX/runtime/jre

#

# If no java.home is specified a VM is located by looking in these places in this

# order:

#

#  1) bin directory for java.dll (windows) or lib/<ARCH>/libjava.so (unix)

#  2) ../jre

#  3) registry (windows only)

#  4) JAVA_HOME env var plus jre (ie $JAVA_HOME/jre)

#

# Arguments to VM

java.args=-server -DJINTEGRA_NATIVE_MODE -DJINTEGRA_PREFETCH_ENUMS -Xmx512m -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -Xbootclasspath/a:"{application.home}/../lib/webchartsJava2D.jar" -XX:MaxPermSize=128m -XX:+UseParallelGC

#

# commas will be converted to platform specific separator and the result will be passed

# as -Djava.ext.dirs= to the VM

java.ext.dirs={jre.home}/lib/ext

#

# where to find shared libraries

java.library.path={application.home}/../lib,{application.home}/../jint egra/bin,{application.home}/../jintegra/bin/international,{application .home}/../lib/_nti40/bin

system.path.first=false

# JVM classpath

java.class.path={application.home}/servers/lib,{application.home}/../l ib/cfusion.jar,{application.home}/../lib,{application.home}/../runtime /lib/jrun.jar,{application.home}/../runtime/lib,

I have tried each of the 4 paths and only the last one works. The following is my Coldfusion error log.

Error loading: C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.6.0_45/jre\bin\server\jvm.dll

Error loading: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_45\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll

Error loading: C:/Program Files (x86)/Java/jdk1.6.0_45\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll

Error loading: C:\Program Files (x86)\Java\jdk1.6.0_45\jre\bin\server\jvm.dll

I have no idea why the jvm.dll can not be found as the file is in that directory.

(sorry for the cross post. This is probably the better place)

Hi,

I am trying to make sure that my Coldfusion Server is optomised to the max and to find out what is normal limits.

Basically it looks like at times my servers can run slow but it is possible that this is caused by a very old bloated code base.

Jrun can sometimes have very high CPU usage so I purchased Fusion Reactor to see what is going on under the hood.

Here are my current Java settings (running v6u24):

java.args=-server -Xmx4096m -Xms4096m -XX:MaxPermSize=256m -XX:PermSize=256m -Dsun.rmi.dgc.client.gcInterval=600000 -Dsun.rmi.dgc.server.gcInterval=600000 -Dsun.io.useCanonCaches=false -XX:+UseParallelGC -Xbatch ........

With regards Memory, the only memory that seems to be running a lot of Garbage Collection is the Eden Memory Space. It climbs to nearly 1.2GB in total just under every minute at which time it looks like GC kicks in and the usage drops to about 100MB.

Survivor memory grows to about 80-100MB over the space of 10 minutes but drops to 0 after the scheduled full GC runs. Old Gen memory fluctuates between 225MB and 350MB with small steps (~50MB) up or down when full GC runs every 10 minutes.

I had the heap set to 2GB initally in total giving about 600MB to the Eden Space. When I looked at the graphs from Fusion Reactor I could see that there was (minor) Garbage Collection about 2-3 times a minute when the memory usage maxed out the entire 600MB which seemed a high frequency to my untrained eye. I then upped the memory to 4GB in total (~1.2GB auto given to Eden space) to see the difference and saw that GC happened 1-2 times per minute.

Is it normal in Coldfusion that the Eden memory would grow so quickly and have garbage collection run so often? i.e do these graphs look normal?

Also should I somehow redistribute the memory available to give the Eden memory more since it seems to be where all the action is?

Any other advice for performance improvements would be much appreciated.

Note: These graphs are not from a period where jrun had high CPU.

Here are the graphs:

PS Eden Space Graph

PS Survivor Space Graph

PS Old Gen Graph

PS Perm Gen Graph

Heap Memory Graph

Heap/Non Heap Memory Graph

CPU Graph

Request Average Execution Time Graph

Request Activity Graph

Code Cache Graph

I know this didn't exist before CF9, and a patch for CF8, but I have yet to find where, or any documentation pointing to, where this activity is logged. Where can I find the logs showing failed login attempts to the CF admin?

This issue just started this morning, has never happened before:

• I remoted into my Coldfusion server via Remote Desktop
• I opened IE and tried to log into the CF Admin page
• The browser just kept spinning, page never displayed
• Then I started getting calls from all of my users saying that all the CF sites were down!

To fix:

• I had to reboot the server.

Notes:

• If I try browsing to the CF Admin page, all of the sites go down again?

• If I don't try to browse/open the CF Admin page, the CF sites stay up and run fine.

Specs:

• Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter
• Coldfusion 9
• MySQL 5.5
• IIS 7.5