Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Hey Paul, Thanks for your reply. When I add the tag below: cfprocessingdirective pageencoding=utf-8 and exactly after it I use the cffile tag, then the string is stored correctly in the file, however when I do not include the cfprocessingdirective tag then the second Æ character is

Re: Windows 2003 + CF8 = 401.3 Error

2008-09-22 Thread Andrew Scott
This may seem obvious to some But Windows 2003 (32bit or 64bit), if 64bit are you using the 64bit version? These are known issues when trying to install a 32bit version onto the 64bot O/S Apart from that not 100% sure with plex, but there were some questions asked in another group about plex

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Just to emphasize something. When I type the character directly with the CHR function, then it gets printed as expected in the file. However, when I type the character directly in the string (without the CHR function) then it gets printed as something else. Joseph. Hey Paul, Thanks

Re: Windows 2003 + CF8 = 401.3 Error

2008-09-22 Thread Gus Denton
32 Bit not 64 bit is where we are at What is Plex ? How do I find out about that ? This may seem obvious to some But Windows 2003 (32bit or 64bit), if 64bit are you using the 64bit version? These are known issues when trying to install a 32bit version onto the 64bot O/S Apart from that

Re: Sessions and more info

2008-09-22 Thread Gus Denton
No No cert server, and no wildcard cert for the institution though I am told that this has been under discussion for some mind numbingly extended period.. I am working in a uni and we have multiple sites (on the same Your university might have a certificate server. This would let you get

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Hastings
Joseph Bugeja wrote: function, then it gets printed as expected in the file. However, when I type the character directly in the string (without the CHR function) then it gets printed as something else. well what are you using to edit the cf page?

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Hastings
Joseph Bugeja wrote: Could this be related to the default Java encoding which is Cp1252, and the default locale of en_US. The ColdFusion version used is 8,0,0,176276. no, cf is in it's own little world--actually we prefer setting up our cf boxes like that even if they'll be serving thai,

Re: Windows 2003 + CF8 = 401.3 Error

2008-09-22 Thread Andrew Scott
Plesk is a control panel, are you the person who made the original question? Because the original question mentioned plesk! On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 6:12 PM, Gus Denton [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 32 Bit not 64 bit is where we are at What is Plex ? How do I find out about that ? This may

Re: Windows 2003 server CF 8 Installation issue

2008-09-22 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
If not IIS, then what webserver are you connecting it to? Apache? Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _ http://blog.cutterscrossing.com Gus Denton wrote: Sorry for posting twice but I am a bit of a newbie at

Temporary Tables

2008-09-22 Thread Robert Rawlins
Guys, I'm looking to run a query which creates a SQL Server temporary table. This has got me a little confused as the SQL requires to have a # in the midst of it to create the table. What's the correct syntax for this? Do I use a double ## or a triple ###? For instance, if I have a

Re: Windows 2003 server CF 8 Installation issue

2008-09-22 Thread Gus Denton
Doing a standalone installation using builtin webserver available with the installation If not IIS, then what webserver are you connecting it to? Apache? Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _

Re: Windows 2003 + CF8 = 401.3 Error

2008-09-22 Thread Gus Denton
Sorry no I made a posting on this thread before I worked out how to start a new thread !! Which I did with an apology for multiple postings Plesk is a control panel, are you the person who made the original question? Because the original question mentioned plesk!

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Joseph Bugeja
Thanks for your suggestions. As you suggested, the file 'neo-runtime.xml' has the UTF-8 encoding as default character set. The strange thing is that when I input the below code in a new file: cfprocessingdirective pageencoding=utf-8 cffile action=write file=C:\sample.txt

Re: Windows 2003 server CF 8 Installation issue

2008-09-22 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
Gus, I don't know that you truly can deploy multi-server without a web server. I do know that it's not suggested to use the built in, outside of single instance dev. On the swing side, I connect to the built in nearly every time I'm accessing the one of my instance CF admins. Just out of

RE: Temporary Tables

2008-09-22 Thread Dawson, Michael
For each #, you will need two ##. So, you need CREATE TABLE for it to create your temp table. The easy way to determine is to look at the data dictionary in your database server. Use CFDBINFO, for example, if you have CF8. Mike -Original Message- From: Robert Rawlins

Re: Windows 2003 server CF 8 Installation issue

2008-09-22 Thread Gus Denton
I have IIS 6 and CF6.1 On a dev server I want to experiment with 8 without pushing the sites we are currently developing and that also are running under 6.1 on the production server through 8. CF 8 runs the JRE 1.6 whilst CF6.1 uses java 1.4.2 For 8 to co exist it must run on it's own Jrun

Re: Google for Domains, mail not being sent

2008-09-22 Thread J.J. Merrick
Chuck, I think you may be confusing your MX records for google with the SMTP server. You are able to connect because the MX server does listen on port 25 and will respond but will not allow you to relay email through it. Your settings in CF Administrator need to be: server: smtp.gmail.com

Re: Problem with reading and writing UTF-8 characters

2008-09-22 Thread Paul Hastings
Joseph Bugeja wrote: characters using the CHR function. This is a bit strange. Can you identify why? your editor, whatever that is. So what I am saying is that I must explicitly set the cfprocessingdirective you should be using this tag religiously, including any files via cfinclude. the

RE: Sessions and more info

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
No No cert server, and no wildcard cert for the institution though I am told that this has been under discussion for some mind numbingly extended period.. As long as all your own sites are within a single subdomain, you could just get the wildcard cert yourself for that subdomain. Dave

RE: Windows 2003 + CF8 = 401.3 Error

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
Here is a little more information.. The server already has CFMX6.1 installed on it in a directory c:\CFusionMX\ CF8 Installer creates a c:\JRun4 directory and proceeds with the installation in this directory... Curiously the point where the error (in the log)occurs the installer

RE: Windows 2003 server CF 8 Installation issue

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
Gus, I don't know that you truly can deploy multi-server without a web server. I do know that it's not suggested to use the built in, outside of single instance dev. On the swing side, I connect to the built in nearly every time I'm accessing the one of my instance CF admins. Sure you

RE: Windows 2003 server CF 8 Installation issue

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
I have IIS 6 and CF6.1 On a dev server I want to experiment with 8 without pushing the sites we are currently developing and that also are running under 6.1 on the production server through 8. CF 8 runs the JRE 1.6 whilst CF6.1 uses java 1.4.2 For 8 to co exist it must run on it's

Re: New SQL Injection

2008-09-22 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Saturday 20 Sep 2008, Al Musella, DPM wrote: A new type of sql attack is hitting my server since about 2 am this morning. It's not new. It's just another minor variant. There should be no need for a big song and dance by now. -- Tom Chiverton Helping to evangelistically maximize

RE: coldfusion 8 application server not starting automatically

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
we have a computer where the coldfusion 8 application server is not starting automatically but the start type is set to automatic. we have done searches on the web and found somewhere that suggested it may be timing out, and also gave us instructions on how to increase the timeout but

RE: New SQL Injection

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
Tom Chiverton Helping to evangelistically maximize fifth-generation sexy partnerships You know, that tagline makes you sound like a pimp. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized instruction at our training

cfgridcolumn

2008-09-22 Thread John Bliss
I have a cfgrid bound to a cfc. It'll have one (and only one) editable column, ActiveStateID, which will be a select box on each row. My attempt to do this includes: cfgrid selectmode=edit format=html [snip] cfgridcolumn name=ActiveStateID header=State select=yes display=yes

Re: New SQL Injection

2008-09-22 Thread Judah McAuley
CF could use more pimps. I just got bought and am now a new division within an existing company, all of whom are .Net Things are just settling in and its fine for now, but as we sit down to discuss strategy and bringing resources on under me, I know that conversion conversation is coming. Judah

Re: cfgridcolumn

2008-09-22 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
This works like any normal select field, passing you the actual value of the selected item, not the display value (unless they're the same). Steve Cutter Blades Adobe Certified Professional Advanced Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 Developer _

Securing session

2008-09-22 Thread heath stein
The current application that I'm working on was required to have a security and vulnerability test from an outside consulting firm. The only issue that they had was that we needed to harden session cookies and offered to two solutions below. 1.They recommended that the HTTPONLY (stops client

RE: Securing session

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
The current application that I'm working on was required to have a security and vulnerability test from an outside consulting firm. The only issue that they had was that we needed to harden session cookies and offered to two solutions below. 1.They recommended that the HTTPONLY (stops

Re: Upgrade From 7.0.2 Standard to 8.0.1 Enterprise

2008-09-22 Thread Andy Allan
To go from Standard to Enterprise, and take advantage of multiple instances you need to do a full install. Andy 2008/9/20 Matt Quackenbush [EMAIL PROTECTED]: To be clear, I am going from a standard installation (e.g. C:\ColdFusion7\) to a JRun installation (so I can run multiple CF instances).

Re: Windows 2003 server CF 8 Installation issue

2008-09-22 Thread Dana Kowalski
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

Re: cfgridcolumn

2008-09-22 Thread John Bliss
I'm not sure what you mean. When I did what I described, the column in the cfgrid did not contain select boxes (as it should per docs: values - Formats cells in column as drop-down list boxes). Instead, column contained only integers. This works like any normal select field, passing you the

Re: Securing session

2008-09-22 Thread heath stein
Thanks Dave, Do you think encrypting the cookie values would be acceptable way of securing the session? Heath ~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial

Logging to db vs txt file

2008-09-22 Thread Nick Gleason
Hi folks, We are planning on logging various actions (e.g. certain errors generated in our application) and need to decide whether to log to a db table vs. a text file in the web server. Are there any clear best practices on this? Thanks! Nick

(ot) Subclipse - merge branch into trunk, files get skipped

2008-09-22 Thread Andy Matthews
I've got a branch containing brand new code. Branch name: /Coupons Files: /com/Coupons/coupons.cfc That's all that's in the branch, and neither the folder (or file) exists in the trunk. The branch creation revision was 242, and I want to merge all changes from 242 through 329. - I make sure my

Re: Logging to db vs txt file

2008-09-22 Thread Shannon Peevey
What about using log4j? It come with Coldfusion ( ./lib/log4j-1.2.12.jar with CF8), and abstracts your logging methods. (The target of the log output can be a file, an OutputStream, a java.io.Writer, a remote log4j server, a remote Unix Syslog daemon, or many other output targets.)

Re: Logging to db vs txt file

2008-09-22 Thread Shannon Peevey
I guess I didn't really answer your question :P I have always seen text files used for high-volume sites. On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Shannon Peevey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What about using log4j? It come with Coldfusion ( ./lib/log4j-1.2.12.jar with CF8), and abstracts your logging

Re: Upgrade From 7.0.2 Standard to 8.0.1 Enterprise

2008-09-22 Thread Adrian Moreno
To be clear, I am going from a standard installation (e.g. C:\ColdFusion7\) to a JRun installation (so I can run multiple CF instances). While I've done lots of the JRun installs from scratch, I've never moved a standard install to JRun in production. Hence my iffiness on the topic. ;-) You

RE: Logging to db vs txt file

2008-09-22 Thread Nick Gleason
Shannon, Thanks for your response. Log4j looks interesting. But, is that usable with IIS? The (brief) research I've just done on it seems to focus on apache. Nick -Original Message- From: Shannon Peevey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, September 22, 2008 5:44 PM To:

RE: Securing session

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
Do you think encrypting the cookie values would be acceptable way of securing the session? No, because the values don't contain any meaningful data in the first place. They're just tokens. So, if I grab the encrypted tokens, they're just as good as the unencrypted tokens. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig

Re: 'Coldfusion' is undefined if using cflayout,cftree in cf8

2008-09-22 Thread Deepender Singh
The same code that use cflayout(type border),cftree is Do you have your web server configured to include the virtual directory /CFIDE? If you navigate to that URL in your browser, does it resolve properly? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides

Re: 'Coldfusion' is undefined if using cflayout,cftree in cf8

2008-09-22 Thread Deepender Singh
The same code that use cflayout(type border),cftree is Do you have your web server configured to include the virtual directory /CFIDE? If you navigate to that URL in your browser, does it resolve properly? Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides

importing data into a database

2008-09-22 Thread Toby King
Hi there I have a MySQL database setup with a table called members. Basically the structure of the table is Memberidvarchar 25 Firstname varchar 40 Lastnamevarchar 40 I have received the members list in an excel spreadsheet - approx 5,000 names. Had the Memberid column been

Warm up CF8 service

2008-09-22 Thread Don L
Ok, what I meant is, cf8 seems like a car, one needs to start the engine first then turn on the heat then in a little while the car would be warm, so by then your girlfriend or wife can step in... The girlfriend/wife in this case is a main app, so, could we have cf8 application server

Re: Logging to db vs txt file

2008-09-22 Thread Shannon Peevey
It is a Java library which is available inside your Coldfusion installation, so doesn't rely on IIS at all. Here is another article which has Windows specific examples: http://coldfusion.sys-con.com/node/42122 Good luck, speeves On Mon, Sep 22, 2008 at 5:48 PM, Nick Gleason [EMAIL

Re: Securing session

2008-09-22 Thread Al Musella, DPM
Dave, That is one of the scariest things I ever read :) Heath - If I am reading this correctly, encrypting the cookie doesn't matter. They can just get your encrypted cookie and use it as is, they do not need to unencrypt it. Thanks Dave, Do you think encrypting the cookie values would

RE: 'Coldfusion' is undefined if using cflayout,cftree in cf8

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
yes i have the cfide configured as virtual directory. But it appears the template is picking up the concerned javascript I don't know what you mean by this. Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software http://www.figleaf.com/ Fig Leaf Software provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized

RE: Warm up CF8 service

2008-09-22 Thread Dave Watts
Ok, what I meant is, cf8 seems like a car, one needs to start the engine first then turn on the heat then in a little while the car would be warm, so by then your girlfriend or wife can step in... The girlfriend/wife in this case is a main app, so, could we have cf8 application server