The original answer that this does work was enough to get me headed in the
right direction. I eventually found a bug in my code; the CFTHREAD was starting
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It seems to me that the CFTHREAD I attempt to start from inside an Ajax routine
(triggered by a CFWINDOW) never runs and doesn't generate any error message.
Can anyone advise if this is a legitimate thing to do?
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For what it's worth, the approach of storing a global data item in the
application scope seems to be legit according to the documentation. Here's what
it said in the CF10 doc:
Application variables are a convenient place to store information that all
pages of your application might need, no
You will need to pass your session variables as a parameter in order to use
them in the CFC, this is best practices anyways.
The difficulty is that there a lot of cfc calls and some of them are in bind
expressions so the chance of making errors is high. That's why I am so anxious
to find one
My app is running in a CF10 system and since I moved my cfc's out of the
document root, they are losing access to the session variables. It seems that
they work for around a day and then can no longer be found. I initialize them
in my application.cfm to a value and I can still cfdump them in a
If you moved your cfc's above the application.cfc (or application.cfm) file,
the session variables will not be accessible. Session and application vars
are accessible from the application file down.
That's what we did.
What other method than session variables can I use to pass a common
Thanx. That's what I think I will do for the time being.
It is hard for me to come up with all the symptoms that we started seeing on
the cfc's now and I don't think I could do justice to any explanation of those
issues. It seemed to me that it was all quite normal stuff. All pages and cfc's
I know this isn't ideal, but it is a live application and the decision to move
the cfc's outside of the doc root was taken because CF was having trouble
finding them (for no obvious reason). Code that has worked since CF7 started
breaking.
So we moved them and this problem began.
I am
For anyone who stumbles across this post, I thought I should add the closure as
I now understand it.
First of all, the duplicate CFID and CFTOKEN was not the problem I thought it
was. It confused matters, but it seems that most browsers can tolerate it, even
though it makes no sense to me.
I
Some more info:
- I have not issued a setclientcookies=yes so assuming that is the default it
should be there.
- the redirect is via an htaccess file which says
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} !^www\.
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.%{HTTP_HOST}/$1 [R=301,L]
- I think the redirect
I did what you suggested and thought that the problem had gone away. I was
successful in getting any traffic to move to the www prefixed name but that
didn't solve the cookie problem. I am having trouble creating the failure but I
am still seeing duplicate cookies with the same CFID and
I am having a problem that from time to time CF10 creates a new pair of cookies
at the domain level, specifically whitevalegolfcub.com
The application runs under www.whitevalegolfclub.com and the CFID and CFTOKEN
cookies are created there, along with several of my own, at logon. But this
I appreciate the feedback received on this and some of the ensuing discussion.
On the technical side, it was a cfajaximport tag on which it failed. But as I
mentioned earlier, it still failed when that tag was removed. Thanx to one
suggestion I got it to work by moving the entire cfwindow up
I'm doing some testing on my new CF10 desktop system and have run into an odd
one that I can't figure out.
This program has been running OK for several years but when I ran it in CF10 it
generated the error message Unable to add text to HTML HEAD tag. It did this
at the end of the page after
So you suggest going back and rewriting a 50,000 line application in order to
resolve the problem? Not a very practical solution, I'm afraid.
Does anyone have a more realistic suggestion?
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I don't dispute that rewriting it might be the best long term solution. And
perhaps doing it in pieces is smart too (although I'd hate to be the person who
had to maintain the application when it is in the middle.)
But I wasn't asking for advice on CF programming strategy, rather I was looking
At the moment I have the Access datasources working. Here is what solved it for
me:
The underlying issue was that message that said The ColdFusion ODBC Server
service is not running or has not been installed. I observed the behaviour of
the ODBC server and realized that it was running fine
Have you rebooted again just to make sure that it doesn't happen again, I
only mention this because that was what you said caused it. Just looking at
making sure this is a 100% fix.
Yes, I have rebooted once so far. And tomorrow I'll probably get my courage up
to apply those updates that were
I have a newly installed CF10 system working on my desktop (developer) machine,
including several working SQL Server datasources. But when I try to get the
Access ones to work I keep running into issues.
I installed the 32 bit version of ColdFusion in order to bypass the issues with
64 bit
The only option is to use the workarounds to get a 32bit ODBC DSN setup.
This also means you will have hosting problems, as Windows is 64bit only
since Server 2008, so you wont be able to setup a CF DSN unless the host is
willing to also do this workaround for you or unless they are still running
Are you able to manually create a 32-bit ODBC connection to your Access
database? If you weren't aware already, you need to run the 32-bit
Windows ODBC data sources applet from inside \Windows\SysWOW64 to access
the 32-bit stuff. If you can do that successfully, then try connecting
to that
Is the service running?
I went into Services and the ODBC service is defined and it set up as
automatic. When I started it, it said it started and then stopped. It indicated
that some services only start when they are needed. I then made it manual and
started it again and received the same
This is going to sound a bit basic, but did you actually install the ODBC
drivers when you installed ColdFusion?
I have no problem with suggesting basic stuff ... I make errors like everyone
else. But the fact that the ColdFusion 10 ODBC Server is in Services should
suggest that it is actually
As with anything it is a process of elimination, what about the other
suggestion it says. I don't recall if you tried that or not.
The other suggestion was the Microsoft Access driver with Unicode. There is no
such driver being offered in the driver list (there was in CF9 but it is no
longer
I started the CF10 Web Server Configuration Tool and it showed one connector
which seemed to be for IIS and all websites. As suggested, I deleted it.
Then I added a connector, specifying localhost, IIS and all websites. The
resulting connector looked very much like the one that was there
I'm happy to update the IIS config but I couldn't find the parameter to change.
I googled for IIS and connector but that didn't help.
I looked into the handler mappings and .cfm shows as being mapped to
C:\ColdFusion10\config\wsconfig\1\isapi_redirect.dll which I think is right.
BTW, this is
For what it's worth (and for anyone in the future who reads this), I concluded
that those IIS config files were fairly large and beyond my capability to
understand/edit them.
So I decided to uninstall CF10 64 bit and try the 32 bit version, seeing as
that shouldn't have any impact on my
I have just installed CF10 on my development machine. I have been happily
running CF9 for several years and decided it was time to move on. The actual
install seemed to go smoothly but at the end when it tells you it is going to
the configuration wizard nothing happens. It simply serves up a
I'm not trying to run CF9 at all. I never ran across an option to set the port
for CF10. Did I miss something?
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CF9 refuses to stop. Even after a reboot and the first thing I did was go into
services and clicked on stop. I noticed that each version has a tool in the
program folder called web server configuration tool and when I ran it for each
version (thinking I might use it to alter what port it was
I appreciate the help. I am primarily a CF application guy but I usually have
enough Windows skills to keep things working OK on my development desktop
machine. (I've done CF6 onwards and kept it going on my desktop.) I am unclear
on connectors and don't believe that I saw or answered any
Sorry to post a second install problem ... I'm feeling like a real dummy today.
I just cleaned out my CF9 development install that had run well for several
years and did a clean CF10 install. I'm running windows 64 bit and did a 64 bit
CF install. It looked good and asked all the expected
Yes, I was able to get CF to issue an error message after enabling that server
and inserting the port in the URL. So I guess that means it is an IIS issue.
Can you suggest a next step...
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No I didn't. How do I uninstall a connector? (Given that I don't really
understand what a connector is.)
I read a post of yours elsewhere also suggesting using the bultin web server.
My rationale for staying with IIS is that I want to test on a system very
similar to what it will be deployed
Dave, you indicated that I should have uninstalled the CF9 connectors before
starting the install. Given that I didn't and that I no longer have a CF9
system, how would I go about removing them? Do I now need to re-install CF9,
remove the connector and then uninstall it? I hope not. I can't
I played around with several alternatives and eventually concluded that the
cleanest solution was to use a single hidden variable with JavaScript
validation which went to a small JavaScript function. The function calls a cfc
which does the database look-up and returns true or false.
This
I have a situation where a CFDIV bind expression needs to complete before the
cfform click takes effect. My assumption was that the Bind could set a hidden
variable that would trigger a CFINPUT error routine when the cfform's button
was pressed. But it turns out that the variable doe not
Have the form call a custom function onsubmit and check the values in your
form fields before it allows form submission.
I'm probably missing something here but I need to lookup data in a database
after the email address and password are provided. I was using a cfc behind the
scenes to do that
Why don't you use a javascript submit interception, then the Javascript
could check the results returned in the div and allow the submit or not?
I think that solution has the same problem. Because the bind is asynchronous,
it doesn't necessarily finish execution when you are in the submit
I have a bilingual website and on the French side I need to send out a standard
email that includes some accented characters. I have tried several techniques,
including using the HTML notation (e.g., eacute;) and just letting the
characters be imbedded in the body, but it doesn't look right
I discovered that I had not properly coded the type=HTML on the cfmail. When
I corrected that and used the b; notation it seems to work. Thanks for the
tip but it turned out that I didn't need it.
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I am still trying to code a regex pattern for my cfinput that accepts the usual
accented characters you find in languages such as French. I need something that
allows people to enter their names when they contain accented characters. I
realize that names can be even broader than this but I am
I think I just answered my own question from another post I read. I am now
using this
pattern=^[a-zA-Z\u00E0-\u00FC'\-\ ]{1,50}$
and it seems to do the job.
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OK, I think I tried what you suggested--here is exactly what I did:
Added this to the page: cfprocessingdirective pageencoding=utf-8
Made the cfinput: cfinput type=text name=FName required=yes size=30
validate=regex pattern=[:alpha:] message=Please enter a valid First
Name
This now
Did you try setlocale on the string as per previous example?
Sorry but I'm not clear on how I would use that, so please help me understand.
For background information, this is a form field coming in to a CFFORM that I
am checking with CFINPUT regex validation. I don't want to force someone
did swapping [:alpha:] for \w in the regex expression work or not? if not,
what
version of cf?
No, it started rejecting all names when I did that. I am running CF9.
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I've read a whole bunch and tried many things but I can't seem to get my regex
pattern to allow accented characters, which will occur in people's names. My
cfinput currently looks like this:
cfinput type=text name=FName required=yes size=30 validate=regex
pattern=^[\w'\-\ ]{2,50}$
Regards
Russ Michaels
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Most if the stuff in that post refer to more general regex processing, not the
ColdFusion implementation. When I tried his syntax, CF failed with errors
because it doesn't appear to be recognized.
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When I use this pattern=^[[:alpha:]'\-\ ]{2,50}$ nothing validates. Is that
what you meant?
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I can disable a submit button using javascript
(onclick=this.disabled=true;return true) but this occurs before the
ColdFusion input field validation.
The problem is that if the form does not pass validation, you cannot resubmit
it after the errors are corrected because the submit button is
Looks like using CFINPUT with validate=submitonce solves the problem. I
didn't know that existed!
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I have a strange bug where this code works on IE9, FF, Opera, etc. but fails on
IE8. It appears to be trying to execute the href and ignores the function that
creates and opens the window. I realize that this may be a JavaScript issue in
IE8 but due toe the CF involved I doubt that it will be
I tried changing the function to this:
function makeWin(x,y,z,num,title) {
ColdFusion.Window.create('ImageWindow'+num,title,'Image.cfm?ID='+z,{x:150,y:y+80,height:640,width:840});
return false;
}
unfortunately it still fails to execute.
I've done some further isolation and deleted a lot of extraneous code. By
adding a hello world alert I found it it is actually executing the function.
I ran the debugger on IE8 and it gave me an invalid argument from ext-all.js,
line 7 character 54203.
This seems to me to suggest an IE8 bug
Actually, I'm not really looking for advice on what to do on a Win 7 freeze,
I'm trying to determine why CF9 is generating these errors messages in the
windows log when I reboot.
ColdFusion 9 ODBC Agent@LOCALHOST,ErrorCode=430,ErrorMessage=Failed to
open event trace file because the file
I'm struggling with a problem in my Win7 system that just started today. It
freezes on me and requires a reboot so I'm trying to get to the bottom of what
might be causing it.
When I open the windows event log, the first error message after a boot is this:
The description for Event ID 0 from
I am testing my application on an IE8 system running Win 7 and CF 9. I do not
know if any of these are relevant but the problem does not occur on Firefox or
Chrome.
Essentially, IE is not passing the FORM.Submit to my post-back form processor.
It passes everything else, including Submit.X and
Normally when you click on an image button inside a CFFORM, the coordinates are
passed to the form processor. This is a simple way to support multiple buttons
from a single form because you can use the presence of a coordinate to tell you
which button was pressed.
I couldn't figure out why
Great, thanx for the explanation. I use firebug for CSS and errors but hadn't
understood how the other tabs worked.
When I click on the call and then open the response tab, here is what it shows
(I can deduce what parts of it are there for but this is a bit beyond what I
have done before):
That's not the code I wrote ... I set focus in the source.
So does this look like another CF9 bug, that it doesn't call my function? My
source code is above in this thread so I won't repeat it.
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I too am trying not to get frustrated. I appreciate that you are trying to help
and I suspect we are caught in semantics based on different technology
experiences.
In any event, I have learned more about what Firebug can do and the statement
that should trigger the focus is in the code being
You may have to lead me into what exactly you'd like to see, but here is what I
have coded and I'll be happy to view source and get you something else ...
There are any number of pages that could force a login, and the do it from this
sequence:
a
Here is the view source from when the window has opened ...
!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC -//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01//EN
http://www.w3.org/TR/html4/strict.dtd;
html
headscript type=text/javascript/* 
