I could use some brainstorming help please to sort out this issue. A disclaimer
is I'm attempting to get our sys admins to hook up the apache sendfile into iis
6.x, however the timeline might not help me here.
We have two racks with a CF 8.x app server, file server, db server. They all
run on
Fine tuning the JVM really does fix a lot of issues. We used to get crashes a
lot back in the day when I didn't know much about JVM tweaking, especially the
heap size stuff. Ever since I updated the JVM and tuned it we rarely ever have
a crash anymore.
We used to run into the same exact thing
I've never really used the admin api until today. I'm having a problem catching
a bad login. I tried wrapping the instantiation/login in a try catch, but it
seems to be ignoring the catch. Is there any easy way to catch a bad admin api
login? I'm not seeing anything in the docs or examples I've
Thanks fellas. That was pretty silly. I didn't think hard enough about it I
guess haha.
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Like Mark said, I'd first look to using the year() function if its available in
your dbms.If not you can also use a BETWEEN.
i.e.
where createdDate BETWEEN createODBCDateTime(startdate) AND
createODBCDateTime(enddate)
Another option I guess (I think depending on dmbs as well) is to use the =
I've used hostingatoz for CF in the past and like CJ said it's fine for goofing
around or non-commercial use, and pretty cheap. They were fairly reliable and
responsive in all my experiences with them. In fairness that was 2 yrs ago
though.
For my personal laptop I use the 17in MBP and its incredible. I had some issues
initially configuring CF 8 + Apache but once I overcame that hurdle it works
great. I've never encountered a slowdown or any hangs.
For work we stick with the Dell D series. If you put enough ram in, they've
worked
I believe there are 6 items in the mmc you need to give that user, including
run as service. If I remember right, one was the batch process one. Lemme go
see if I can dig up the MS KB article. We have to do this all the time, and it
ends up being a pain!
yeah 812614 lays out the IIS permissions for the box. We also had to apply some
of these to a custom user running CF 8.x in order to get some things working
right
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/812614/en-us
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You said the command works fine when you run it as your user then fire the
runas right? Is your user a local/domain admin?
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I know this exact issue has been a problem since CF 6.x. I've always thought it
was a permissions problem, but to be honest I've never used cfexecute. We're
just not allowed to =\
Is your CF install running as local system? If it's running as a specific user,
you could try making the user
I've setup a multiserver using the built-in initially for a test project,
without a problem. It worked like a champ.
This almost sounds like a permission issue, but I'm not sure. Are you running
any OS hardening tools on the boxes before installing CF? Did you have a
previous CF install on
I have a dynamic cftree that loads off a cfc. The cfc just fires off database
queries to get the layout structure. I want the tree to retain state using
session variables if the user hits the back or navigates to an intermediary
processing page.
I've been pounding my head against the wall
Couldn't you scale those down by setting a var up top with the script, img etc.
Also set a var so you don't have to repeat the lcase(). Then use a few
listFindNoCase()'s ?
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As others above mentioned MAC addresses can be spoofed to whatever you want
with minimal effort. It would be as futile as monitoring IP addresses. That
being said, does the average user know/care to do that? Probably not, unless
they were tryign to scam the system.
You could probably try to
cfexecutue enabled on production gear is something I've never been allowed to
do =\
I really wish they would come up with a better (built in) workaround and close
that item out finally.
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Similar to what Andy said you could make a 1x1 flash movie using the same color
as your bg and use the built in flash tools to preload other movies onload.
There's another method you can use with javascript writes but that takes more
time then just doing the 1x1 flash movie. You could probably
This is really good. Thanks for sharing it. I honestly had no idea it existed.
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Every time this has happened to me, it was a caching issue. Try to remove
caching from the datasource, if that doesn't work reboot the database machine
or restart the db services. After that restart CF and see if its all better.
This thread is kind of heavy handed. My personal opinion with anything like
this is your mileage will vary. There are simply too many factors to heavy hand
a this is the only way to do it. Everyones configurations, staff, resources,
technical knowledge etc etc vary. You use what works, simple
I had the exact same issue once on a laptop. CFEclipse worked fine everywhere
else but this one machine. Europa fixed the problem in this case. I have no
idea why, never bothered to figure it out hah. Good luck!
p.s. the same machine slowed to a crawl the first time I put aptana on there.
Seeing code solutions to this is cool. but imho its best left to your
router/firewall to handle. I'd contact the provider to have them put some
better controls in place. These are scenarios that almost delve into why cisco
has the zero day features on their gear..
I ended up solving this, well the problem anyhow...
If I move the administrator back under the web root and access it via the
actual ip and not the local loopback the monitor works again like a champ. It
doesn't explain why it initially worked when I moved the administrator out of
the web
This does what you want:
http://mkruger.cfwebtools.com/index.cfm?mode=aliasalias=cfmail.msoutlook
Like it says, it is only reliable in outlook, and does not always work in your
email reader of choice =\
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I'm having a problem with the CF 8 server monitor today, and maybe someone here
has some thoughts or an idea.
Firstly, our administrator sits outside the webroot under its own IIS site that
only responds to the local loopback (127.0.0.1/localhost)
I ran the server monitor 2 weeks ago without a
No one else is getting this? :o
This is scaring me!
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I noticed the CF Server list wasn't really linked on the site anymore, so I'm
posting this here.
I ran the 8.01 patch to our CF 8 install (a fresh install and a hotfix 3
install) and we are suddenly getting odd sandbox security issues. First, CF is
being denied access to the CustomTags/
Dave,
While the hethttprequestdata does indeed split them into seperate fields, it
produces another issue of sorts. There are now two of each field however they
all have the same field name. Its not possible to differentiate which field B
goes with which field A. heh. Still an excellent
ah excellent thought. I was focusing on the pdf side of things! I had found the
presubmit() method in livecycle and was twiddling with trying to get it to do a
bulk replace of commas with some other delimiter.
I can't imagine this hasn't come up somewhere before. I searched for awhile
and
We have a PDF form we take an HTTP submit from and process in CF and I'm having
a heck of a time updating someone else's PDF form as someone who has never used
Livecycle Designer. I'm hoping maybe someone on here has some insight.
The form has a row of 3 form fields that all accept user text
I think the main thing in the end is the scope of the project and personal
preference.
If the site will maintain heavy load, especially the images section, then you
may want to consider a file server for uploads and just store the filename with
your record. This can take the strain off a
is the data source setup as a native sql driver or ODBC? I've run into speed
problems in the past when we had to use the ODBC instead of the native sql one.
also, if you go into the mgmt. studio and run the same query in the query tool
is the response immediate and much faster? If not, maybe
I actually have a LOT of experience with this issue. I myself experienced it
with IE6 for 3 months until an un-related Windows update corrected it.
We see a pretty fair amount of logged in users daily coming in with undefined
session variables that we catch. The vars are defaulted
well one simple solution is to only do updates during a scheduled maintenance
period daily. During that time you have the services bounce for CF and SQL. Its
not pretty but its effective.
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from: http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms181055.aspx
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Certain changes in a database can cause an execution plan to be either
inefficient or invalid, based on the new state of the database. SQL Server
detects the changes that invalidate an execution plan and marks the plan as not
you can use DBCC DROPCLEANBUFFERS to clean the execution buffers and DBCC
FREEPROCCACHE to free the stored procedure cache.
warning! it clears all the plans and may have detrimental effects on your
production gear if people are actively doing stuff etc etc usual disclaimers!
hi,
jquery has some plugins to do dynamic dropdowns. The footprints for jquery and
the plugins are fairly small, and the ramp up time to use it in production is
insignificant.
http://jquery.com
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are you using cfqueryparam's on your query? It should escape them on its own I
would think.
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I realized today I've gotten a bit 'tool stale'. I'd love if everyone shared
their applications that are off the beaten path, but they can't live without. I
figure most of us must be able to find 1-2 new ones from others lists that will
probably change the way you work.
I made a blog post
Hi, this is a heads up to anyone in central Illinois. I've resurrected the CF
user group around here (champaign-urbana vicinity), and while there is still
loads left to do with the website. our first meeting is tentatively
scheduled for July 19 2007.
Please feel free to visit and become a
I know someone posted this solution on here awhile back, but I can't find it in
the search. Where are you hiding mysterious person :o
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I had a problem with my mapped drive and now my project had to be setup again.
I lost all my tasks, and I'm too lazy to open all the files to get them back,
there must be an easy way I'm just not seeing. Can someone please enlighten me?
Thanks!
This is going to sound weird but I've seen two issues nesting a trim() inside
other functions in the past. When I moved it above the function and cfset to a
temp it fixed the error. May not apply here but its only a 15 second test :)
We were getting this on 6.x and they posted a hotfix at one point early on in 7
or late 6 to correct it. We still saw it sometimes where the task would run
multiple times over night, and there was a post on the adobe forums pointing to
use the daily at option instead of every x hours.
bah flip that (SORRY!) use every x hours vs daily at and see if it still
happens. When we changed that we never ran into this trouble again =\
We were getting this on 6.x and they posted a hotfix at one point
early on in 7 or late 6 to correct it. We still saw it sometimes where
the task
I'm the only one accessing my development equipment at the moment (only one in
2 days to have as well), and the below code shows 3 connected sessions.
Julio,
There is a much easier way to count sessions, here is some simple code
=)
cfapplication name=your_application_name
cfscript
How many indexes do you have setup on the table? I had a table with about 6
million records that I inherited and it only had an index setup on the primary
key. It caused about 300-3000ms overhead on any page that accessed it. It took
me a couple days but once I found it and added the indexes
ok now that I'm a bit more coherent.
if you go to gaiaionline.com/forum you can see the msg board counts etc without
needing to register.
- Gaia has 998,523,683 articles posted with 6,899,737 registered users.
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still having the problem eh? You're not alone :)
Here are most good topics on it:
Sun Developer Network - Tomcat workarounds to holding IE sessions::
http://forum.java.sun.com/thread.jspa?threadID=702395messageID=4073475
post on using apache as proxy vs using Tomcat directly and session
while there are a lot of things you can do there is a reality than Internet
Explorer 5.5 through version 7 has some bugs and features that hamper pure
session functionality without the use of cookies unfortunately.
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If you are properly configured and indexed on your SQL machine it won't be as a
big a problem as you may think. For some good insight visit http://go-gaia.com
and phpbb.com. The founder of that site posoted some mysql tuning tips but they
can apply to other Dbs as well. Go-Gaia is a roleplaying
sorry for the typos, I've been under the weather all week lol. anyhow the url
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not discounting those things but I see the exact same functionality, as do a
few others, without frames and Ajax =\
We actually do have support with CF 7.x and I should put in a call on this soon
myself. If I find anything I'll let you guys know.
I could be forgetting but I believe that using basic authentication isn't a
great option in general. If you're site is not running SSL I think password and
usernames are sent as clear text.
I can tell you on several security checklists I've had to read in my day
they've all required the
I've had this issue for quite some time as well and here is a good wealth of
information for youto do more research on! :)
1. track the CFID and watch it change when this occurs. IMHO thats one of the
easiest ways to see this happening, I can re-create this almost flawlessly on
some machines
oh I forgot some other little things too. If you are using SSL, check how your
users enter the site. If its not being handled correctly by the certificate
this can cause issues sometimes. An incorrectly configured certificate can
cause session problems if the user references the site as
Thanks Tom! I'll try that later today with one of the problem users and see
what happens. A lot of times the reality is they have no control to set
anything and have to get their IM staff involved to even modify trusted
sites/cookie settings (aka sigh...). When we run into this it tends to be
I'm seeing the same thing a couple times a day now in error emails. I contacted
a user about it and they said they had no troubles opening anything etc =\
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eh let me browse where I wish to. If I was done with your site and wanted to go
to my home page I'd hit the conveniently placed button in my browser. I hate
sites redirecting me or trying to js bookmarks etc. my .02 anyhow :)
theres a ton of great resources already available to jumpstart your layout then
learn from them. A lot are done by the web standards zealots etc. good stuff.
Heres a few:
free 2 and 3 column layouts
http://www.bluerobot.com/web/layouts/
http://glish.com/css/
free layouts
one side note: you have multiple id's referencing the same identifier which
technically makes it a class instead.
Off the top of my head it looks like a box model issue with sizing, but I
didn't have time to scrounge through the css atm. :)
yeah, id categories and topnav are referenced multiple times. Technically an id
on an element should be unique to the page. Its a minor point to be honest.
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look at the actual code on the page. It references ID's multiple times. That
what I was referring to. Enjoy :)
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You can reference it in your inserts by adding a select. There may be a better
way, and this may not be kosher but it works
insert into yada()
values blah;
select thisId = @@identity
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yeah in the jvm.config there should be a line java.home. Modify that to point
to the updated JVM and restart CF services. You'll know right away, typically,
if it blows up :)
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Theres another list on houseoffusion.com :
http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-jobs/
You may also want to post it up there, since its focused on that kind of thing
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like someone said it looks like its collapsing margins and the box model.
If you want some other articles on it::
pain inducing w3c article:
http://www.w3.org/TR/CSS21/box.html
Box Model Hack:
http://webdesign.about.com/od/css/a/aaboxmodelhack.htm
Original Box Model Hack by Tantek:
One of the reasons to password protect your DSN in code vs administrator is on
a shared host the ability for someone to compromise your administrator if the
host isn't diligent about it. Another reason is to not allow someone else on
your virtual host to maliciously access you data source
are you on a co-locate, home network, virtual hosting etc?
Normally I would just put blocks at the router/firewall level to not allow the
SQL machine (if its seperate form the web server) to communicate to anything
outside the domain, or more specifically only to the web server (depending on
a decent reference from microsoft on securing SQL Server:
http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/aa302434.aspx
(I was looking for it before but my bmarks have become unwieldy :o )
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If the site is designed with web standards in mind you can typically render a
mobile version with minimal effort. A lot of times, depending on the site, you
can simply provide a mobile device alternative stylesheet that essentially
hides the more advanced stuff from the device ... but still
did you try the docs that came with model glue unity? There was a folder of
documentation, if you run the index.html it has a nifty quickstart guide. I
just tried it on my dev server and got it and a test app setup in under 5
minutes :)
I updated to _11 yesterday on a machine and it took immediately after I
rebooted (I know I only needed to restart the service but...).
I knew about the _13 thing but I had thought Adobe only supported _11 and using
anything else may void service etc. I needed to call them today and find out
I initially tried tzupdater on win2k3 and 2k and it didn't take on 2k. I ended
up having to upgrade the JVM.
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Last yesterday afternoon I deleted all the tasks and set them back up form
scratch. Today they are working fine again. darn hiccups =\
anyhow thanks for the info, at least I learned about the insane spaces in the
time field (lol btw)
- dk
http://www.imified.com/
IMified is build on top of Coldfusion and lets you interact with your basecamp
account through any instant messenger service (except yahoo atm). pretty cool
stuff. they also tie in to rememberthemilk and probably a dozen or so others.
I don't think the API they use is
yeah like I said, I don't know if they will/have released their code to do it
since the project is currently free /shrug.
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I'm currently integrating Adobe's Spry form validation into most of my sites
and its been wonderful so far. There's no need to have windows beeps as you
call em when theres far more graceful notifications to the user that can be
done.
Also, providing client side validation is great for you and
I honestly hate that kind of attitude from a good portion of the CF community.
Web Standards are a reality. If you are running a shop and putting out web
products eventually you will run into this where you're app won't validate and
theres nothing to do but simply stop using the feature.
And what do you tell a customer who wants to see a shiny w3c button on their
page like so many other web sites? They don't want to usually hear oh sorry
ColdFusion can't do that if you I any one of these dozen tags etc /shrug. It
gives a bad impression on both the language, and the developer in
Suddenly yesterday after four months all my scheduled tasks have gone bonkers
and are running up to 8 times a day at random times with no logical interval.
All of the tasks were set up as recurring tasks running daily at x:xx. When I
go into each task now the time for daily at is blanked out.
Yes you guys were correct it was a matter of about 15 spaces being on each side
of the time.
Sadly, it still doesn't explain why it ran 5x today when its set to recurring
daily at 5am. It ran at 5am, 7:30am, 10:00am and 10:30am =\
The built in script protection has a secunia vulnerability posted against it
stating there is a method to circumvent it. You can find it here:
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Simply checking the domain submitting is the referral etc is not always fool
proof as we've found individuals on
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