One thing to keep in mind, if you do not have a *unique *ApplicationName on your server, then the variables could be shared w/another application--which is especially dangerous on shared hosting.
I've seen people roll out an application w/a common ApplicationName like "MainApp" and have issues w/their App scope being shared w/another application that also used a name of "MainApp". Same thing happens if the Application.cfc/cfm doesn't define a ApplicationName. IMO, the safest thing you can do is name define ever ApplicationName with a hash of the current directory path: <cfset this.name = hash(getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())) /> That way you can use the same code w/every Application.cfc, but your virtually guaranteed to have a unique ApplicationName. -Dan On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 2:55 PM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > I think I can see one possible cause of your problem Dave. > You may actually have 2 applications running. > > one on yourdomain.com > and another on www.yourdomain.com > > So if someone goes to yourdoamin.com and then www.yourdomain.com they will > NOT be seeing the same application. So perhaps most people go to > www.yourdomain.com, but every so often someone visits > yourdoamin.cominstead, which would restart the application if it was > outside the timeout > period. > > To avoid this you need to add a redirect, so that only 1 domain is in use. > either redirect www.yourdoamin.com to yourdomain.com or vice versa. > > And also change your code to explicit to avoid this problem > > if CGI.SERVER_NAME IS "blah.com" > > else ... staging > else ... dev > else redirect to blah.com > > > On Mon, Mar 28, 2011 at 7:46 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > To confirm my understanding, are you saying that on a very busy site, > > it's possible that OnApplicationStart might never run again once the app > > > has started? (server admin and restarts aside.) > > > > That's exactly correct. > > > > > Since the app is running fine for months and then all of a sudden > > switches configs, something else then must trigger a call to > > OnApplicationStart > > > but with a screwy environment. (I'm going to add logging to track this > > down but I can't predict when the problem might happen again.) > > > > It's entirely possible that (a) the server is stopping and restarting, > > which will cause all applications to stop, or (b) there's an explicit > > call to onApplicationStart somewhere within your code - this is > > actually pretty common. > > > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > > http://www.figleaf.com/ > > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:343361 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
