Alert listers (or those with altogether too much time on their hands) will no doubt recall that over the last couple of weeks I've had a problem with permissions, pages showing "page not able to be displayed" messages, and a custom tag (CFX_CSVtoQuery) not working properly. There has been some traffic back and forth on this list about it and I've finally got it solved. Thought you might like to know what had happened.
Thanks to some 'beyond-the-call-of-duty' help from Dave Watts, we finally isolated the cause to permissions in one or more folders underneath C:\CFUSION. This meant that the ColdFusion server had the rights to do most of what we wanted it to do (which was why it worked away happily for a couple of weeks), but when a certain function was called, the ColdFusion server didn't have sufficient rights to execute that dll or whatever it was and crashed. The cure was to set the permissions correctly. I did this by going to explorer on the server console, and setting all the folders and files under C:\FUSION to have the same rights. Does anyone see any security problems with doing this? Is there anything that resides under C:\FUSION (it's a default installation) that shouldn't have the same rights as everything else? I'm most grateful to Dave Watts and I reckon everyone ought to get their wallets out, tip the contents into an envelope and mail it to Dave for his untiring help and endless good sense for us all. Cheers, Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP WebWorks ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
