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ColdFusion 11 cfcontent failing

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:17:52 GMT

I have a stumper. Installed CF11 on our test server. Did some regression testing and am running into an issue. I have a .cfm that downloads information to Excel. It renders fine in CF10 (and prior versions). In CF11, it renders fine in IE10 and in FireFox. It however fails horribly in IE8 and since most of our users are still required to be on IE8, this is a showstopper.

Here is the code that sets up the excel dump - page name is show_table.cfm:

</cfif>

The website runs under SSL. I have already turned off these lines - with no change in the below error:

This is what I expect to happen - IE10 does a similar open/save panel:

here is what happens in IE8:

Note that the filename on the fail is the same as the .cfm page that is trying to do the download. It's like it does not see the cfheader setting it to the expected name (which for this particular download should be er_quality_items_view.xls). I tried commenting out the cfheader to make it take the default, and no change to the error.

It looks to me like this is a bug in CF11....any suggestions on how to get around this failure?

CF8: How do you specify a Proxyserver Port in CFFTP?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 22:07:48 GMT

In order to access a secure FTP site, I need to specify a port (8080) for the proxy. There is no parameter for proxyport. I tried appending it with a colon (i.e., proxy.server.com:8080), but that didn't work. Via WinSCP, I can connect just fine since I can specify a proxy port in that app.

How do you specify a Proxyserver Port in CFFTP?

cfcache template cf10 issue. When I use it thousands ( 15000) of threads remains in process coldfusion.exe until server crash.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:27:08 GMT

Hi,

Using cfcache to cache templates for a short period of time, the number of threads in coldfusion.exe process increase unexpectedly. Moreover, these threads remains in process (view resource monitor). We don't know why. Maybe an xml config file of CF10 take control of these threads?

When I use this code:

....

</cfcache>

</cflock>

Thanks in advance.

Coldfusion 11 cfheader or cfcontent 'failed to load PDF document'

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 21:10:32 GMT

I have a website that worked fine with Coldfusion 10 and now I have updated to Coldfusion 11 and this code doesn't work:

If I type in the URL directly to the PDF file it loads fine, but if I try to get it through this code then I get the message "failed to load PDF document". Even if I change the code to allow me to save the file, I get a saved file but it won't open in acrobat.

I know the code is working code, I tried it with Coldfusion 10 again just to make sure. Something about 11 is stopping it from working. Any ideas?

Help!!!! I am getting a 501 Syntax Error with CFFTP ListDir. I created the file in January of 2014 and today is the first time it has failed.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 18:46:56 GMT

<cfftp connection="MyFtp"

server="#FTPserver#"

username="#username#"

password="#password#"

action="Open"

stoponerror="Yes">

<cfftp action="listdir"

stopOnError="Yes"

name="Files"

directory="/export400"

connection="MyFtp"

CF10 Using background image in cfpresentationslide

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:37:37 GMT

Just wondering if it is possible for a slide to contain a background image and have text appear on top of it?

I've tried many ways and each time, the image is being displayed on top of the text.

Examples I've tried:

<cfpresentationslide Title="FILE BACKGROUND" duration="14" presenter="Paul">

<html>

<body background="file:///C:/inetpub/wwwroot/ppt_test/slide_header.jpg">

<h3>Sales</h3>

<ul>

<li>Overview</li>

<li>Q1 Sales Figures</li>

<li>Projected Sales</li>

<li>Competition</li>

<li>Advantages</li>

<li>Long Term Growth</li>

</ul>

</body>

</html>

</cfpresentationslide>

and

<cfpresentationslide Title="DIV" duration="14" presenter="Paul">

<div style="background-image: url('slide_header.jpg'); width: 960px; height: 124px; color: ##000000; z-index: -9999">

here

<div style="z-index: 9999; border: 1px solid red;">

<h3>Sales</h3>

<ul>

<li>Overview</li>

<li>Q1 Sales Figures</li>

<li>Projected Sales</li>

<li>Competition</li>

<li>Advantages</li>

<li>Long Term Growth</li>

</ul>

</div>

</div>

</cfpresentationslide>

and

<cfpresentationslide Title="TABLE" duration="14" presenter="Paul">

<table style="background-image: url('slide_header.jpg'); width: 960px; height: 400px; ">

<tr>

<td valign="top">

<h3>Sales</h3>

<ul>

<li>Overview</li>

<li>Q1 Sales Figures</li>

<li>Projected Sales</li>

<li>Competition</li>

<li>Advantages</li>

<li>Long Term Growth</li>

</ul>

</td>

</tr>

</table>

</cfpresentationslide>

Upgrading from ColdFusion 9 to 11 Enterprise edition, can we use same licensing key?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 16:17:06 GMT

We will be upgrading from ColdFusion 9 to 11 Enterprise edition. Can we use the same licensing keys or do we need new ones?

Can I install CF11purchased as an Upgrade on a new server

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 13 Nov 2014 02:12:19 GMT

We are upgrading from CF9 to CF11. CF9 is running on an older server under Windows Server 2003. I'd like to install CF11 on a new server under Windows Server 2012 and then shut down the old server. But since we're getting the upgrade price, will I still be able to install it on a new machine that didn't previously have CF9 installed?

Cold Fusion 11 updates (Security fixes)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:46:14 GMT

Hi,

I have installed Cold Fusion 11 in a developement environment.

I noticed that there is an update for a security issue.

I am unable to locate the update (security fix) for Cold Fusion 11.

Does any one know where the update is located so I can download it?

Thanks for your help,

Mike

Having trouble getting CF11 to install under Linux

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 22:26:58 GMT

Hi,

First, apologies if this (or a similar version) ends up posted here twice.

I am trying to install CF11 (ColdFusion_11_WWEJ_linux64.bin) on a Scientific Linux machine and am getting the following, as it craps out:

Preparing to install...

Extracting the JRE from the installer archive...

Unpacking the JRE...

Extracting the installation resources from the installer archive...

Configuring the installer for this system's environment...

Launching installer...

JRE libraries are missing or not compatible....

Exiting....

My java version is:

java -version

java version "1.7.0_71"

OpenJDK Runtime Environment (rhel-2.5.3.1.el6-x86_64 u71-b14)

OpenJDK 64-Bit Server VM (build 24.65-b04, mixed mode)

Do any of you have any suggestions as to what I need to do to get this to install?

Thanks,

Steve

Cold Fusion 11 refresh page image does not appear

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 21:58:14 GMT

Hi,

In Cold Fusion 11, when I first bring up a page the graphic image appears.

When I refresh the page, the graphic image does not appear.

This is not an issue with Cold Fusion 9.

Is there anything in the administration that needs to be configured?

Thanks,

Mike

CF10 Java 7.51 - "Missing required permissions manifest attribute"

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 20:23:40 GMT

Our clients are reporting that after they update to Java 7.51 they are now getting the following error:

"Missing required permissions manifest attribute in main jar: CFIDE/classes/cfapplets.jar"

Is this something Adobe is supposed to fix?

Having my users add an exception to their browsers is NOT an option for us.

thanks!

Could someone please tell me why is < converted to < ;

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:42:38 GMT

I m facing issues in my application because < , > and " are being converted to &lt , &gt and &quot respectively.
Please tell me why this happens and how to prevent it from happening.

Thanks in advance.

Could not connect to SMTP host

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:33:00 GMT

Hello,

We configured with Coldfusion 10 Tasks that send mail using SES (Amazon) with username and password and validated. We launched the task and will manage coldfusion sending emails every x time processing them. In Coldfusion log we are seeing this error is repeated, albeit that finalment eventually send all emails pending queue, "Error", "scheduler-1", "10/23/14", "15 : 05: 19 ",," javax.mail.MessagingException: Could not connect to SMTP host: email-smtp.us-east-1.amazonaws.com, port: 465, response: -1 " A which may be due to this error? because users have reported to us that do not receive emails.

Regards and thanks for yours answers

js files not loading from /CFIDE/scripts folder in ColdFusion 11

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 19:23:10 GMT

We are starting to upgrade from CF 9 to CF 11 and have run across several applications that are not loading the js files that the ColdFusion UI tags use from the /CFIDE/scripts folder. Has anyone run across this issue?

Forum Navigation Question

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 14:32:25 GMT

This might be obvious, but I'm not finding a way to view an archive of my posts. The original forum format had this feature. Anyone know if there is a button to view this?

How to disable Scheduler logging in CF10

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 11:25:07 GMT

Hi,

In the coldfusion-out.log we are seeing scheduler log entries like this:

Nov 11, 2014 20:54:14 PM Information [ajp-bio-8012-exec-127] - Starting HTTP request {URL='http://somesite.com:80/1.2?output=xml', method='get'}

Nov 11, 2014 20:54:14 PM Information [ajp-bio-8012-exec-127] - HTTP request completed {Status Code=200 ,Time taken=313 ms}

Nov 11, 2014 20:55:00 PM Information [scheduler-2] - Run Client Storage Purge

Nov 11, 2014 21:00:00 PM Information [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-1] - Task default.blah triggered.

Nov 11, 2014 21:45:00 PM Information [DefaultQuartzScheduler_Worker-2] - HTTP request completed {Status Code=200 ,Time taken=773 ms}

Quite simply, how can we disable them?

We have no logging enabled for scheduling in CF10 Admin, and yet they are still generated.

Advice appreciated.

Crystal Report 2013

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 12 Nov 2014 04:23:13 GMT

Hi there ,

I was just wondering if anyone has ever come across the needs to run a Crystal Report 2013 report file (.rpt) file from ColdFusion?

I am currently using ColdFusion 9, but it seems that the cfreport tag does not work with Crystal Report 2013?

If anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Ivan.

Cannot get cf8 administrator to run on windows 8.1

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:20:11 GMT

Cannot get cf8 administrator to run on windows 8.1

Data & Services > Data Sources

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 10:17:09 GMT

I'm changing from CF9 to CF11 and I have already purchased licenses. But I can not find the option to set the informix driver that is not in the list of available drivers !!!

sent date value to cfc is TPR_END_DATE = F, j Y H:i:s but not the dmy formated date

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 08:20:06 GMT

I got this error Error Executing Database Query. [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver][SQLServer]Conversion failed when converting date and/or time from character because that grid send the date F, j Y H:i to cfc

Mac OSX 10.9.4 coldfusion 11 standalone server ERROR: HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.NullPointerException

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Tue, 11 Nov 2014 07:11:50 GMT

Hi all.

I have installed the cold fusion server.

at first with mac server, apache..... but after install cold fusion and want to go to the admin page:

HTTP Status 500 - java.lang.NullPointerException

I deinstalled the server from mac and cold fusion..

after a fresh install of coldfusion 11 and use the build in server..

the same error..

does anybody knows the problems?

I Use Java 7 Update 67

A friend of me have installed it .. it runs

greetings thorsten

ColdFusion 8 Download

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 23:01:33 GMT

Figures, my edition of CF8 gets corrupted on my server two days after CF9 launches so when I went to download a fresh copy, I can't find it. Does anyknow know where I can find a download for CF8?

Apache POST flex2gateway never closes or times out, reaches max child processes

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 21:52:32 GMT

We have been trying to pass an external PCI scan, and noticed some server lockups after starting a scan. We are scanning a couple hundred IP addresses, which all resolve to the same servers. The scans are actively looking for vulnerabilities on the box, and one of which is flash remoting. When we look at the apache /server-status page, it shows a ton of long running flex2gateway processes. For instance:

22-4

4466

0/3817/3817

4.07

163840

0.0

57.76

x.x.x.101

WebNode2.ambassador.int

POST /flex2gateway/http HTTP/1.1

As you can see, this POST request has been running for 163840 seconds, or nearly two days. Since it seems these POST requests never complete, even though the client has long since disconnected, they simply stack up until the server's max number of child processes has been reached, effectively killing our webserver.

When I try to restart the clustered coldfusion instances one at a time, these POST requests do not die off.

If I stop both clustered CF instances, the requests complete (or get killed).

If I reload or restart apache, the requests are gone as well.

strace gives me nothing useful:

[root@WebNode1 ~]# strace -p 34025

Process 34025 attached - interrupt to quit

read(185,

pstack gives a little more, but nothing that looks obvious to me:

[root@WebNode1 ~]# pstack -p 34025

Usage: pstack <process-id>

[root@WebNode1 ~]# pstack 34025

#0 0x00007fdd40444740 in __read_nocancel () from /lib64/libpthread.so.0

#1 0x00007fdd33efe2e6 in jk_tcp_socket_recvfull () from /opt/coldfusion10/config/wsconfig/1/mod_jk.so

#2 0x00007fdd33f1b68d in ajp_connection_tcp_get_message () from /opt/coldfusion10/config/wsconfig/1/mod_jk.so

#3 0x00007fdd33f1ceea in ajp_get_reply () from /opt/coldfusion10/config/wsconfig/1/mod_jk.so

#4 0x00007fdd33f20308 in ajp_service () from /opt/coldfusion10/config/wsconfig/1/mod_jk.so

#5 0x00007fdd33ef8f5d in jk_handler () from /opt/coldfusion10/config/wsconfig/1/mod_jk.so

#6 0x00007fdd41b92cd0 in ap_run_handler ()

#7 0x00007fdd41b9658e in ap_invoke_handler ()

#8 0x00007fdd41ba1c50 in ap_process_request ()

#9 0x00007fdd41b9eac8 in ?? ()

#10 0x00007fdd41b9a7d8 in ap_run_process_connection ()

#11 0x00007fdd41ba6ad7 in ?? ()

#12 0x00007fdd41ba6dea in ?? ()

#13 0x00007fdd41ba7a6c in ap_mpm_run ()

#14 0x00007fdd41b7e9b0 in main ()

I dont know what that tells us exactly, but I'm leaning toward the hangup between apache and tomcat.

Any suggestions on where how to troubleshoot this issue?

CF11 web server configuration utility. access denied.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 15:39:17 GMT

I have installed CF11 on my windows 7 PC for development.

I have also installed Apache 2.2

When I try to run the server configuration utility I get the message:

C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Group\Apache2.2\conf\httpd.conf.1 (Access denied)

Why is that ?

I tried to run the configuration utility as administrator, but I get the same result.

I think that running as administrator is useless because this is a java module, so it should be the java engine to be run as administrator...

But I could be wrong.

Please help me because I have to do some developments and I badly need to have a CF11 running here.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Sergio

Is there any oauth2 library exist for ColdFusion 11?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 11:37:46 GMT

I have designed a Restful component using Coldfusion 11. Now I need to think of securing this REST service.After searching for sometime

I found HTTPS + oauth2 is the best combination for securing REST service.

In the official OAuth 2.0 — OAuth page, We have libraries for different languages. But there is nothing listed for ColdFusion.

Any one having any kind of knowledge if we have a library for oauth2 in ColdFusion?

Can I depend upon some Java library ? If yes , any library suggestion?

application.log error

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 06:18:03 GMT

I am getting the following error on the /home/coldfusion9/logs/application.log.

----------------------

"Warning","jrpp-133","11/09/14","22:11:52","CFADMIN","Unexpected characters found in locale."

----------------------

Any idea what is causing it and how can I stop it.

I am using coldfusion9 along with CentOS release 5.10 and plesk 12.

I have protected the CFADMIN directory as a password protected one.

Let us know the valuable thoughts regarding this.

Thank you,

Uninstall CF11 on Mac OS X 10.10 (Yosemite)

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 06:07:12 GMT

I'm trying to uninstall CF11 on my mac but the uninstaller doesn't work.

I ran the uninstall.app under /Application/Coldfusion11/uninstall, it tries to open but closes immediately. So I opened up terminal and ran:

sudo /Applications/ColdFusion11/uninstall/uninstall.app/Contents/MacOS/uninstall

This is the output:

unzip: cannot find or open /Applications/ColdFusion11/jre, /Applications/ColdFusion11/jre.zip or /Applications/ColdFusion11/jre.ZIP.

chmod: /tmp/IA1454124394/jre/bin/: No such file or directory

chmod: /tmp/IA1454124394/jre/lib/: No such file or directory

sh: /tmp/IA1454124394/jre/bin/java: No such file or directory

it tries to unzip but the first one is a folder and the other 2 are non existent files.

I know I can just drag the Coldfusion11 folder to trash but it gives me an uneasy feeling that this is not the only files/folders it added.

I want to manually uninstall it but I don't know what other files it added/modified in my apache settings. mod_jk.conf and the entry of this file in httpd.conf comes to mind but what else?

Josh

Error

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 18:45:33 GMT

What does "Header length too large" mean?

Coldfusion 9 extended support

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Sun, 09 Nov 2014 16:07:03 GMT

Does extended support include security patches?

Thanks,

Rob

Calculate total empoyee days (as of present) that have elapsed for each month in a FY

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 21:27:27 GMT

Hello, everyone,

I'm running CF server connecting to an Oracle (11g) db.

I have a table that keeps track of projects (past, present, future) and need a way to sum the days for each project, for each month, that have happened.

For example.

ID   - Name          -   Start -   Stop - Employees

001 Project A      01-Oct-14 31-Dec-14       8

002 Project B      06-Feb-15 21-Feb-15       9

003 Project C      30-Oct-14 29-Nov-14       3

004 Project D      26-Dec-14 16-Apr-15      21

I'm trying to create an overview where the display will have the months of a Fiscal Year go across the page, indicating the number of employee days for each project that have elapsed. (NOT counting the current day). New requirement: To make matters even more complex, there is a related table for the employees showing what dates they actually started and stopped (not every employee starts on day 1 and ends on the last day.. some start a day or two after the project start, etc.)

I'm not wrapping my head around this, for some reason. Mental block. Any ideas?

Someone in another forum suggested a PIVOT. That's above my paygrade (I have never used PIVOT, don't understand how it works, etc.)

V/r,

^_^

DateDiff confusion

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:33:49 GMT

Hello, everyone,

I'm looping through all the days of the current month, using DateDiff to display the difference in days between the current date and the date of the loop, and I'm getting TWO days showing a difference of 0.

<cfloop from="1" to="#DaysInMonth('01-Nov-14')#" index="ndx">
#DateDiff('d',DateFormat(ndx & '-Nov-14'),now())#<br />
</cfloop>

The output will be

6
5
4
3
2
1
0 <!--- (today, Nov 7) --->
0 <!--- (tomorrow, Nov 8) --->
-1
-2
-3
-4

How can there be two days with a difference of 0?

V/r,

^_^

Is it possible to cancel a CF11 license and get CF10 license?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:26:48 GMT

Is it possible to cancel a purchased CF11 license and get CF10 license?

Cannot create a new site while a VD/code works in Default site. IIS 7.5 Windows 2008r2 64 bit system

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:16:13 GMT

We are moving from CF8 to CF11, windows 2003 to windows 2008 r2 64bit, IIS 6 to IIS 7.5. When I have my code as a VD or placed in the wwwroot, in the Default website, the site works OK but when I create a new site pointing to the code,placing in a different folder, it throws an error :

"The requested content appears to be script and will not be served by the static file handler."

1. All the Handler Mappings are mapped OK.

2. Tried re-installing ASP.NET, iisreset etc.

3. Tried changing the AppPool.

Please reply ASAP.

Thanks & Regards,

Naresh.

ColdFusion 11 Fresh Install Administrator Login Not Working

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 17:09:45 GMT

Am shifting from a machine that had CF9 on it, then the Splendor Beta, now with CF11 and though I've re-installed CF11 multiple times and have tried various methods I've seen in other threads (including the passwordreset.bat and using localhost) no matter what when I go to the Configuration and Settings Migration Wizard after install to get things going I get "Invalid Password. Please try again." Very aggravating as I'm eager to get rolling with CF11 fully and this is such a goofy roadblock.

Share feedback on ColdFusion 11 Update 3 early access build here

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 14:35:42 GMT

ColdFusion 11 Update 3 is available for early access — Adobe ColdFusion Blog

Thanks,

Adobe ColdFusion Team

Where can I download update 2 for ColdFusion 11

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Fri, 07 Nov 2014 12:35:06 GMT

I'm behind a proxy server and I have added the following arguments to the "Server Settings > Java and JVM" in the Administrator

-Dhttp.proxyHost=proxyhostURL

-Dhttp.proxyPort=proxyPortNumber

-Dhttp.proxyUser=someUserName

-Dhttp.proxyPassword=somePassword

I can check for updates, but cannot download them. Where cna I download them from on the Adobe site?

Only 100 connections using CF 11 Standard?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:56:23 GMT

Can anyone explain this statement from: Buying guide | Adobe ColdFusion 11 Enterprise

"** No more than hundred connections can be made using Standard, unlimted on Enterprise"

What type of "connection?" A request? A web socket? Any kind?

Thanks,

- Shawn

ColdFusion did not adjust for Daylight Savings Time change

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 21:08:28 GMT

Both my 8 and 11 machines did not adjust for DST over the weekend. The computer times look ok, but CF times are still an hour behind. We've restarted the server, which did not fix the problem. Any suggestions?

Thanks!

How to use .NET in CF ?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 19:10:19 GMT

Yes. You can use ColdFusion to call local or remote Microsoft .NET assembly classes as CFML objects. ColdFusion applications can use .NET assemblies to directly access and control Microsoft products (such as Word, Excel, or PowerPoint), use existing .NET components, or use .NET assemblies that you create to leverage features that are difficult to use or not available in ColdFusion or Java.

Finding the Oracle datasource...

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Mon, 10 Nov 2014 16:25:25 GMT

I've inherited a ColdFusion 10 application with an Oracle 11g backend; Windows server. I am mostly a DBA and not a ColdFusion expert. In the code for the application, they have the datasource hard coded. This means when I move it to Test I must change the datasource, upload the modules, and test. After a successful test, I have to change the datasource, yet again, upload and have it promoted to production. I seem to remember in the old application I used to support, the code was generic and the datasource depended on what server you were on; if on development, test, or production you didn't have to worry. I don't remember how this was done. What would be the best way to eliminate this hard coding and have it more automated? I know I'm probably missing something, but you all have been very helpful to me in the past few weeks, so hopefully, it's not a completely stupid question. Thank you.

Best Practices Question In Regards to Instancing Multiple CFCs That Need to Talk to Each Other

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:36:54 GMT

Hello CF Fans,

I have a “best-practices” question in regards to how you recommend instancing CFCs that all need to talk to each other in a given project.

Let’s say for example you have a web application that has a bunch of different modules in it:

Online Calendar
Online Store
Blog
File Manager (uploading/downloading/processing files)
User Accounts

Each of these modules is nicely organized so that the functions that pertain to each module are contained within separate CFC files:

Calendar.cfc
Store.cfc
Blog.cfc
Files.cfc
Users.cfc

Each CFC contains functions appropriate for that particular module. For example, the Users.cfc contains functions pertaining to logging users on/off, updating account info etc…

Sometimes a CFC might need to reference a function in another CFC, for example, if the store (Store.cfc) needs to get information from a customer (Users.cfc). There are a couple ways that I’ve been playing with accomplishing this:

Within a CFC, instance the other CFC’s that you’re going to need:

<cfcomponent>

<cfset usersCFC = CreateObject(“component”,”users”) />
<cfset filesCFC = CreateObject(“component”,”files”) />

This approach seems to work for the most part unless some of the instanced CFC’s also instance the CFC’s that instance them. For example: If Users.cfc instances Files.cfc and Files.cfc also instances Users.cfc. I’ve run into problems with occasional dreaded NULL NULL errors with this probably because of some type of infinite recursion issue.

2. Another way I’ve tried to approach this is to instance any needed CFCs inside a CFC’s function scope (this seems to prevent the recursion issues):

<cfcomponent>

<cfset var local = structNew() />

<cfset local.usersCFC = CreateObject(“component”,”users”) />
           <cfset local.filesCFC = CreateObject(“component”,”files”) />

My concern with this approach is that it may not be as efficient because you wind up instancing the same CFC’s multiple times for each function that needs it but it does solve the problem of recursion by isolating the CFCs to their respective functions.

One thing I thought of, based on some things I’ve seen online and articles on object oriented programming, is taking advantage of a “Base.cfc” which uses the “extends” property to instance all of the CFC’s in the application. However, I’ve never tested this type of setup before and I’m not sure if this is the ideal way to allow all my CFC’s to talk to each other especially since I believe using extends overwrites functions if any of them share a common function name (e.g. “init()”).

How do you tackle this type of setup in your own applications? I’d love to hear your thoughts!

Website is slow to load when someone first connects

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Thu, 06 Nov 2014 17:23:05 GMT

Greetings all. I have a strange problem. I recently installed ColdFusion 11 on a fresh test server running Windows Server 2008 and IIS7. Since this is a test server there isn't really any traffic going to it, so it probably doesn't serve pages but when I connect to it.

Now if I try to access a page after having not done anything in a while the browser will sit for about 15-20 seconds before the page loads. After that though every page loads just as fast as I'd expect. If I stop browsing the site and wait a while (not exactly sure how long, 10+ minutes?) it does the same thing.

This is only happening to the sites I have set up as ColdFusion sites. I have a test site that isn't configured via the Coldfusion tool and only has html content and it loads just fine.

I have followed the ColdFusion connector tuning found here: ColdFusion 11 IIS Connector Tuning — Adobe ColdFusion Blog and it hasn't changed the problem.

Anyone else run into this or know how I can fix it?

Thanks!

ColdFusion 10 Enterprise Lincese

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 23:48:25 GMT

I would like to migrate me ColdFusion 10 Enterprise 2CPU license to a new VMware server. The issue is VMware doesn't support multi core processors, so the server built with 8 processors.

Am I allowed to migrate this ColdFusion license to the new server? Do I need to upgrade my ColdFusion License?

Thanks for your help

Regards

Anyone manage to get ColdFusion to work under Apache on OS X 10.10 Yosemite?

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 21:31:06 GMT

Hi all I'm having great difficulty getting ColdFusion10 to work under Apache with OS X 10.10 Yosemite.

Here is a description of what I've faced and a little of what I've done to solve my problem

Problem 1

Apache httpd.conf file gets messed up

Solution: copy original httpd.conf file from /etc/apache2/original/ to /etc/apache2/

Problem 2

No Java Virtual Machine is installed!

Solution: install Java (version 6 or 7 is better) you may only be able to install version 8

Problem 3

ColdFusion doesn't know where your Java installation is so find and update your ColdFusion configuration files

/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/bin/jvm.config

/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/bin/coldfusion

/Applications/ColdFusion10/cfusion/runtime/bin/wsconfig_jvm.config

change the source to whatever your current Java is and where it's located

for example if you have version 7 installed:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.7.0_45.jdk/Contents/Home

if you have version 8 installed:

/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_25.jdk/Contents/Home

Problem 4

INFO: The APR based Apache Tomcat Native library which allows optimal performance in production environments was not found on the java.library.path: YOUR PATH HERE!

Solution:Still working on this one!

32 and 64-bit CD

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 20:03:27 GMT

is there only one CD for ColdFusion for both 32 and 64-bit?

ColdFusion 11 Destroyed My Charts

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 17:15:08 GMT

Surely we can't be the only ones who are disappointed with the newest charting engine in CF11? Yes, ZingCharts can be cool and the plethora of style options gives us total freedom to build the perfect chart. However, that is also the root of the problem! Since CF8, CFCHART has been adequate for our needs. It produced good looking chart images and was just flexible enough for us to produce what we needed while staying simple enough for us to put together quickly and move on in development. This has been true up through CF10....

We just installed CF11 on our test server and it has DESTROYED every chart we produce using the same code we've had in place for years.

Custom chart colors: gone. Readability: hit or miss. 3D angles and depths: changed. Proper fitting of images in pages: gone. Legends specifically told to hide: now showing, and showing incorrectly. Labels: FUBAR.

What the hell?! Who was in charge of the backward compatibility of this charting engine? The least that should have been done was to give us a default style similar to the old one.

Again, we liked the simplicity the old engine gave us. And, while it would be cool to spend some time with the ZingChart Editor creating super awesome charts, we don't have the time to mess with the minutiae of all the little details for these charts. But it looks like I have no choice. So, instead of proceeding with our upgrade to CF11 we have to stop and reconfigure hundreds of CFCHART tags!

Here are some examples of our mangled charts that have had NO CODE CHANGES from CF10 to CF11:

CF10	CF11

OK, rant over. Have to waste time fixing this bullsh*t...

[CF10] CFINPUT custom validation start and end dates

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 16:48:04 GMT

Hello, everyone,

Another developer that I am working with is working with a form that has start and end dates. He'd like to be able to use custom JavaScript validation to make sure that not only are the dates in proper format (that part of the JS is working fine), but that it will also check to make sure that the start date will always be prior to (or equal to) the end date, and will throw an alert if the end date is before the start date.

I've Googled for this, and am finding informative suggestions on just making sure the date is in the right format, or falls within a certain range, but nothing on how to make sure that one date is before (or less than) another.

I'm guessing that data binding might be a part of it. Can anyone suggest how to set these fields so that each has a validateat="onblur" that will check both values?

Also, as a related issue, he has the CF datepicker working as far as entering the dates, but since the field doesn't get/lose focus on this, how do we trigger the function?

V/r,

^_^

cfgrid column results are switching places

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 15:12:21 GMT

We have just moved to a "new" server that is Windows Server 2008 R2. I have installed CF 11.

There are two cfgrids and no code has changed with these grids. Also, when running the grids on my localhost on my laptop I do not get the issue explained below.

One grid has a column "schoolyear" and the second grid has a columns "user role".

The results for these two are showing up under the other's columns. i.e. "school year" shows the "user role" drop down and "User role" displays the "schoolyear" dropdown in the grid.

I thought it was perhaps a java issue and we have installed the latest version of java on the server.

Any help is greatly appreciated.

Thanks,

Brett.

IIS 7 and CF10 Service Unavailable error message config.

forums_noreply@adobe.com — Wed, 05 Nov 2014 12:02:17 GMT

I don't expect much luck at getting a reply here but here goes..

After having problems with one of the CF10 updates running under IIS 7 there was a 'Service Unavailable' (503) error message from the Tomcat server showing on all the sites we run.

What we want to do is set up a system where IIS takes over if CF goes down and shows a nice error message which is different on each site.

Alternatively a way to easilly switch IIS from using CF to point each site to another local site while the CF server is down.

Any suggestions?

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