Re: CFMX Admin: made easy-breezy

2003-06-15 Thread cf-talk
Geoff, Very good presentation! I'm going to recommend it to several lower level techs I know that always call me up asking about ColdFusion admin settings and what they do, etc. -Novak - Original Message - From: "Geoff Bowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent:

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Carabetta
> Hopefully that will get you to here: > >> In the JMC, drill into the cfmx server instance and the ColdFusion > >> Application and change the context root to / - it should redeploy > >> successfully. > > Again, sorry I missed out that key step... No problem at all. And I can't thank you enough fo

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Jim Davis
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 1:42 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CF Compatability > > What's the incentive to give away CF, the test suites or the language to > New Atalnta and others? I'm not sure

RE: CFMX,BD... the question on many minds...

2003-06-15 Thread Jon Hart
> Therefore, if you follow best security practices as recommended by Macromedia (everyone > does, right?) then the question of auto-escaping single quotes within CFQUERY is a non- > issue. If you're not following best security practices, well... Id like to use cfqueryparam, however, Im composing

RE: Problem with CFC

2003-06-15 Thread Cameron Childress
I believe you have misspelled "returnVariable" as "returnVarible" in your CFINVOKE tag. -Cameron - Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc. --- cell: 678-637-5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > -Original Message- > From: Jake McKee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >

Problem with CFC

2003-06-15 Thread Jake McKee
Help! I am trying to write my first CFC, and am having quite a time with what has to be the most basic CFC possible. Every time I run the code below, I get this error: Attribute validation error for tag cfoutput. The value of the attribute query, which is currently "showResu

Re: CFMX installer (was: Installing MX for JRun with no context r oot & other threads)

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
| Unfortunately, in the less-pleasant world I inhabit, I suspect that this is | a goal that can't be reached without compromising other, equally important | things. It's a simple fact that every hour that the MM guys spend working on | the installer is one less hour spent working on something else

RE: CFMX,BD... the question on many minds...

2003-06-15 Thread Vince Bonfanti
Of course, Macromedia recommends that you *always* use CFQUERYPARAM within CFQUERY; from the CFML Reference for CFMX (the exact same wording is in the CF5 docs): "Macromedia recommends that you use the cfqueryparam tag within every cfquery tag, to help secure your databases from unauthoriz

RE: which version of MDAC and C++ runtimes do I have?

2003-06-15 Thread Vince Bonfanti
Windows XP ships with MDAC 2.6, and with a more recent version of the C++ runtime, so you're OK. Vince Bonfanti New Atlanta Communications, LLC http://www.newatlanta.com > -Original Message- > From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 10:38 PM > To: CF-Tal

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Rafael Alan Bleiweiss
Dave, I do appreciate your desire to understand, however this email, as in the last one, has come across as judgementally attacking with a foundation based in a very limited undedstanding. Intended or not, that's just how it comes across. Poor business management how? Because an individual c

RE: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Watts
> I have been unsuccessful in configuring the connectors to a > specific site for CF administrator functions, and yet have > CF available to the other sites for "normal" operations. I've done this without any trouble. No matter where you specified the web root directory to be during the CFMX ins

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
I only use Apache on Linux - no problems there I use IIS on Windows I have been unsuccessful in configuring the connectors to a specific site for CF administrator functions, and yet have CF available to the other sites for "normal" operations. == Stop spam on

RE: CFMX installer (was: Installing MX for JRun with no context r oot & other threads)

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Watts
> If the software company claims to support the platform, then > the installer should be configured for it. no compromise here. Last week, I configured someone's Win2K Pro laptop to run Apache 2.0.46, IIS 5, and CFMX simultaneously. I did this for a very specific, and kind of odd reason which isn

RE: DBAs/SQL Server experts?

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Watts
> I'm still confused on this. I upgraded to MX and most of my > datasources were to a SQL Server using windows authentication. > When I installed all those datasources failed to copy over. > Then when I tried to access them through the CFMX Admin it > hung the server for like 5 minutes. I ended

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Calvin Ward
Apache installs very nicely on windows. But that aside, you can certainly do a standalone install, run the connectors and use IIS, and still not have the default IIS running. - Original Message - From: "Doug White" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June

Re: CFMX installer (was: Installing MX for JRun with no context r oot & other threads)

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
| > In my opinion, there should be no middle ground for installer | > packaging. I think that statement is merely a cop-out. I do | > not agree that people "do not want" a comprehensive installer | > package. If the software company claims to support the platform, then the installer should be conf

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
| | Well, I use Apache and handle everything through that. We are talking about Windows installations here, not apache. I have not had an instll problem with Apache, either on a single or multi-homed server. | I don't understand you - the default install lets you access CF Admin | from any mach

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Chris Kief
I've read the whole thread and sorry, I'm just not following your argument. Can you please clarify?? Damon's original post to which you responded concerned competitors while you seem to be addressing customers. So that leaves me slightly confused... chris >-Original Message- >From: Dou

RE: CFMX installer (was: Installing MX for JRun with no context r oot & other threads)

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Watts
> In my opinion, there should be no middle ground for installer > packaging. I think that statement is merely a cop-out. I do > not agree that people "do not want" a comprehensive installer > package. > > I am a firm believer that the installer package should address > every configuration that

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Sunday, Jun 15, 2003, at 09:55 US/Pacific, Dave Carabetta wrote: > I think the problem is that I'm exploding the cfusion.war file > into the root directory of the server (which, without MX and the > default-ear > directories, only has the SERVER-INF directory) Yes, you need to create a cfusio

RE: SQL Server Using JDBC DTS

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Watts
> > You can create a DTS package using the tools built into > > Enterprise Manager, > > I was trying to find, if there was a way to use JDBC with > SQL Server Enterprise manager. I guess not.. Our current > back end is U2(UniVerse) Multi-value Database... was trying > to see if it was possible to

Re: CFMX Admin: made easy-breezy

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Tangorre
Very informative. Good job. Mike - Original Message - From: "Geoff Bowers" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 6:51 PM Subject: CFMX Admin: made easy-breezy > Folks, > > Finished up some training on CFMX administration a few weeks ago. I

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
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RE: CFMX Admin: made easy-breezy

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Watts
> Finished up some training on CFMX administration a few > weeks ago. It struck me that there is very little in the > way of admin information for CFMX bar a few technotes -- > so I put together a humble little Breeze presentation to > run folks through server settings and their nuances: > > C

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Sean A Corfield
On Sunday, Jun 15, 2003, at 12:56 US/Pacific, Doug White wrote: > What do we do to install the product anywhere but the web root, which > requires > that the default web site be always running? This exposes the server > to the > constant spew of unsolicited probes and attacks. I never install

CFMX Admin: made easy-breezy

2003-06-15 Thread Geoff Bowers
Folks, Finished up some training on CFMX administration a few weeks ago. It struck me that there is very little in the way of admin information for CFMX bar a few technotes -- so I put together a humble little Breeze presentation to run folks through server settings and their nuances: CFMX Adm

RE: which version of MDAC and C++ runtimes do I have?

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Watts
> I'm about to install some software, and the install notes > tell me I have to have MDAC2.6 SP2 installed, and Visual > C++ 6.0 runtimes. > > The notes also refer to MS Knowledgebase articles about them > but I can't make head or tail of them. I don't know if I > have these components install

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Chris Kief
And there is a FREE trial download of CFMX...what's your point? chris >-Original Message- >From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 3:27 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Re: CF Compatability > >perhaps a better choice of words should have been "customers" > >Tria

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
perhaps a better choice of words should have been "customers" Trial versions and free limited versions have been a part of the software business all along, right? This is how you introduce your product, especially if it introduces new technology to a market that has not used it before. =

CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread dcooper
Hmmm...interesting, but how does that work into a business model? ~| 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:

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
Of course not - I was referring to products such as ColdFusion Express Not the full product line. Geez! == Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com ISP rated: http://www.forta.com/cf/isp/isp.cfm?isp_id=772 =

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
I can appreciate those that have experienced many "trouble free" installs. I have no quarrel with those that are interested in only installing the server product on a single-homed box. Those installs appear to be what the current installer is designed for. But. What to we do to install the pro

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Ken Wilson
By "new implementers" do you mean someone who would be competing against MM for server sales? Ken -Original Message- From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 3:23 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: CF Compatability Among others, Introducing the technology to new

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Chris Kief
Huh? You believe they should give the fruits of their hard work to others for free? You're kidding right?? chris >-Original Message- >From: Doug White [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] >Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 12:23 PM >To: CF-Talk >Subject: Re: CF Compatability > >Among others, Introducing

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
Among others, Introducing the technology to new implementers, provide a pathway for a start up to build experience and follow an upgrade path that will be profitable. == Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosting solutions http://www.clickdoug.com I

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Carabetta
> CFMX also comes in two flavors: Server and "for J2EE" editions. And CFMX for J2EE is a Sun "J2EE Verified" certified J2EE application itself. > > I think copying *.cfm files is an acceptable and familiar task to J2EE app server administrators and would probably not be considered overly complex.

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Joe Eugene
I am not sure why one would want a Completely backward compatible platform.. Is .Net compatible with Classic ASP? There is a reason why MS doesnt claim it to be compatible.. Completely different architecture. Its a great that MM has made CFMX "almost" compatible with legacy CFML code.. but this d

CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread dcooper
What's the incentive to give away CF, the test suites or the language to New Atalnta and others? ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cf

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Carabetta
> CFMX also comes in two flavors: Server and "for J2EE" editions. And CFMX for J2EE is a Sun "J2EE Verified" certified J2EE application itself. > > I think copying *.cfm files is an acceptable and familiar task to J2EE app server administrators and would probably not be considered overly complex.

Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Damon Cooper
CFMX also comes in two flavors: Server and "for J2EE" editions. And CFMX for J2EE is a Sun "J2EE Verified" certified J2EE application itself. I think copying *.cfm files is an acceptable and familiar task to J2EE app server administrators and would probably not be considered overly complex.

RE: CF-Talk: Digest every 6 hours

2003-06-15 Thread Damon Cooper
Thanks for the feedback guys. I agree this should be simple, easy and automatic for CF customers. Fixed. --- On Friday, Jun 13, 2003, at 13:08 US/Pacific, Dave Carabetta wrote: > I have installed CFMX for J2EE for JRun many times using "cfusion" as > my > context root. Howeve

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Sean A Corfield
Doug, You had a bad experience with CFMX on Windows. I had, mostly, great experiences on Windows, Solaris and Mac OS X - with probably the best part of a hundred installs. I'm sorry that our experiences differ. That said, calling it "crippled" and "dumb" and saying "all of [the configuration a

RE: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Jim Davis
My main problem with all of this is that we're still only comparing implementations, not specifications. Having a real CFML specification (instead of just usage documentation) would make so many things so much easier, I think. Jim Davis President, http://www.depressedpress.com Webmaster, http://w

CFMX,BD... the question on many minds...

2003-06-15 Thread dcooper
Checking it out... ~| 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

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Carabetta
See comments in-line below > Dave, it sounds like you have a residual install somewhere or you tried > to rename the server instance: Well, to be honest, I tried replacing the reisse calls in my post with a more generic mysite, but missed that one. Nonetheless, I blew away the server and fo

Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Damon Cooper
Coudn't agree more, at least on JRun. It's our stuff and should be easy. Fixed. ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subsc

Re: CF Compatibility

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
Finally, a web site up and running on CFMX/ Windows2003 Enterprise. I am using the IP as the link as the DNS is still updating. http://66.139.91.36/brcfug/ Host is in Texas, group is in Sao Paulo Brazil! == Stop spam on your domain, use our gateway! For hosti

CF Compatibility

2003-06-15 Thread Damon Cooper
My compatibility concerns could be interpreted as bias, but we do possess a signficiant arsenal of quality assurance test suites here that we've made a massive investment in over the years, and I know how important small incompatabilities can be to customers. There's a lot that goes into bein

Re: CFMX,BD... the question on many minds...

2003-06-15 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Damon Cooper wrote: > What's the issue you're seeing with CFQUERYPARAM in CFMX? All 4 queries below should return the same value, but the last one returns a string with 2 quotes. SELECT '#string#' AS test SELECT '#trim(string)#' AS test SELECT AS test SELECT AS test

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Lyons
my god I wasn't canning you! Trying to understand how how you guys do it. looks like poor business management to me - Original Message - From: "Rafael Alan Bleiweiss" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 7:49 AM Subject: Re: CF Compatabi

CFMX,BD... the question on many minds...

2003-06-15 Thread Damon Cooper
What's the issue you're seeing with CFQUERYPARAM in CFMX? (I posted this in the other thread as well, but it's appopriate here in answer to your comment): --- The reason for my post was to point of the difference between being "substantially compatible" with ColdFusion CFML, and bei

CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread dcooper
The reason for my post was to point of the difference between being "substantially compatible" with ColdFusion CFML, and being "compatible" with ColdFusion CFML for CF4.5 and CF5 customers. Increasingly, thread after thread of legitimate user and community discussion here and elsewhere have b

CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Damon Cooper
The reason for my post was to point of the difference between being "substantially compatible" with ColdFusion CFML, and being "compatible" with ColdFusion CFML for CF4.5 and CF5 customers. Increasingly, thread after thread of legitimate user and community discussion here and elsewhere have b

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Rafael Alan Bleiweiss
At 04:58 AM 6/15/03 -0400, you wrote: >If you're free-lancing things are only marginally better. You don't quite >have to multiply by 3, since you don't have the overhead, but you do need to >multiply by 2.5 since you'll be paying all the FICA taxes, insurance, etc There's a LOT more to it... Let

RE: OT: which version of MDAC and C++ runtimes do I have?

2003-06-15 Thread Mike Kear
Thanks Jochem. I came up a positive on both. In fact I have MDACv7.1 so I'm well clear. Thanks. Cheers, Michael Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia AFP Webworks. -Original Message- From: Jochem van Dieten [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Sunday, 15 June 2003 9:24 PM To: CF-Talk Subject:

Re: CFMX,BD... the question on many minds...

2003-06-15 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Rafael Alan Bleiweiss wrote: > > OK - so after all that I've read, I still sit here with a fifty fifty > issue, EXCEPT - Did I read correctly? BD's CFQUERY does NOT natively allow > escaping single-quotes? Yes. This is about as bad as it can get for developers. CF MX breaks with cfqueryparam

Re: OT: which version of MDAC and C++ runtimes do I have?

2003-06-15 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Mike Kear wrote: > I'm about to install some software, and the install notes tell me I have to > have MDAC2.6 SP2 installed, and Visual C++ 6.0 runtimes. > > The notes also refer to MS Knowledgebase articles about them but I can't > make head or tail of them. I don't know if I have these componen

RE: Microsoft Site Server

2003-06-15 Thread Mike Townend
One of the other guys here has been looking into it more thoroughly as im swamped, and he says we can ldap into it for this kind of authentication... Thanks Mikey -Original Message- From: Dave Watts [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, June 14, 2003 16:38 To: CF-Talk Subject: RE:

Re: Installing MX for JRun with no context root

2003-06-15 Thread Doug White
In my opinion, there should be no middle ground for installer packaging. I think that statement is merely a cop-out. I do not agree that people "do not want" a comprehensive installer package. I am a firm believer that the installer package should address every configuration that the software a

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread John Quarto-vonTivadar
> What I don't get is how some of you guys work for shops that charge over > $100 an hour but are only making 40k a year or so. > so lets say 40 hour week that's 2080 hours a year @ $100 an hour = 208k a > year. If you took home 1/2 that's 104k a year. That's a decent living, even > in NY. > If yo

Fwd: Re[2]: how to ask for the correct title in cfif ?

2003-06-15 Thread cf-talk
Hi Isaac, thanks a lot. We don't use any form. We get the data, where to eMail to from the customer. And this is the reason, we oversaw that it was "Mrs " instead of "Mrs". Instead of: Dear Mrs Miller it was Dear Miller in the eMail. :-) What I have thought to do is to write a check routine to che

Re: Re[3]: how to ask for the correct title in cfif ?

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Lyons
I'd give ya 2 suggestions. 1) trim your form fields or 2) make the title field a menu with Ms. Mrs., Mr. as the choices then you won't have the problem to begin with :) dave - Original Message - From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Sunday, June 15, 2003 3:5

Re: CF Compatability

2003-06-15 Thread Dave Lyons
I hear ya:) but maybe I'm missing something if you already have coldfusion its only $649 to upgrade right? or download the trial & you have a developers edition and find a good host to send your clients too & you are good to go. or http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=361292

Re[3]: how to ask for the correct title in cfif ?

2003-06-15 Thread cf-talk
Maybe, I just wrongly translated it for understanding-reasons from the german word: anrede which is not reserved :-) It should be adresses I guess. Uwe DL> isn't "title" a reserved word? DL>> - Original Message - DL>> From: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DL>> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> DL>>

Java CFX "cfx_cfx"?

2003-06-15 Thread John Quarto-vonTivadar
hi folks, I was succesfully using a Java CFX and today needed to reinstall it. After re-starting the service, I started getting the error Error processing CFX custom tag "CFX_CFX_xmlParse". so then I rebooted the server altogether. still the same problem. what's with the sudden "cfx_cfx" ? A sear

Re: base64 encoded email

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Well, it looks like the few minutes I used to create a solution could easily been used to read this article on CF variables. It had the answer right in it: http://www.macromedia.com/devnet/server_archive/articles/using_cf_variables.html > Just a small thing I found while adding more features to m

base64 encoded email

2003-06-15 Thread Michael Dinowitz
Just a small thing I found while adding more features to my spam-watcher. To decode a base64 encoded string (as found in email for example), the following code can be used: ToString(ToBinary(string)) ToBinary() turns the base64 encoded string into ascii text. Unfortunately, CF still thinks that thi