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ColdFusion has Jumped the Shark

I’ve been programming in ColdFusion for the past 20+ years or so and its time to move on. The Pricing model is ridiculous the support site is terrible. (It was better 20 years ago when you could click on Support and then click on Documentation) What are minor enhancements are now considered major Revisions forcing you to upgrade often even when you pay for support which I think should include free upgrades. If adobe want to keep ColdFusion around they […]

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Using Sub Domains with IIS and ColdFusion 2023

I am struggling to get my websites up and running using sub domains. For example, customer1.domain.com, customer2.domain.com etc. These sites are working in IIS using html… https://customer1.domain.com/index.html opens c:/sites/customer1/index.html https://customer2.domain.com/index.html opens c:/sites/customer2/index.html However… https://customer1.domain.com/index.cfm opens C:/ColdFusion2023/cfusion/wwwroot/index.cfm https://customer2.domain.com/index.cfm opens C:/ColdFusion2023/cfusion/wwwroot/index.cfm This setup is working perfectly on my Hostek CF2018 server but I am trying to migrate to CF2023 on Azure (Media3) and I am just getting lost down a rabbit hole with this issue. I have run the ‘Web Server Configuration […]

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ColdFusion 2018 Lockdown Tool

ColdFusion 2018 Lockdown Tool Issues

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Very old ColdFusion version suddenly adding spaces to CFIMAGE URL’s

We have a site using coldfusion that is supposed to display images that are pulled from a shared drive. Recently these images are no longer displayed properly. When clicked on to open the image URL an error is received- The requested URL /images/building/ 7780A.jpg was not found on this server. We realized the url being passed suddenly has a space before the image name example above is space7780a. We have added new photos making sure there is no space in […]

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Quick Fix for PDFg Service Authentication error after ColdFusion Migration

You may have encountered a scenario where the PDFg service fails after running the migration wizard in ColdFusion and may have noticed the below error message in the logs. Getting Started: [Thread-12] - Error in setting up authentication for PDFg services. at coldfusion.document.PDFgCryptoUtils.processCipherWork(PDFgCryptoUtils.java:482) at coldfusion.document.PDFgCryptoUtils.decrypt(PDFgCryptoUtils.java:376) at coldfusion.document.PDFgCryptoUtils.decrypt(PDFgCryptoUtils.java:195) An easy way to fix this is by copying the “seed.properties” and .prikey from the “lib” folder( \ColdFusionxxx\cfusion\lib ) of the old install and replacing them on the new install. Please ensure you […]

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How to Change the Default Solr Home Path in ColdFusion

Sometimes, there are instances where you might need to customize the default Solr configuration, such as changing the default Solr home path. This blog will guide you through the process of changing the Solr home path in ColdFusion to a custom location. 1. Copy the entire “multicore” folder from the default install(\ColdFsuion2023\cfusion\jetty\multicore) to the custom folder, say for example C:\collections\multicore. 2. Go to the ColdFusion admin page, find the Solr server settings, and update the path to point to your […]

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Getting Started with Adobe ColdFusion (2016 Release)