for a game, but not
for a server product, where lost time is money.
Al Musella, DPM
President
Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research Information
virtualtrials.com
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I run a few large lists on egroups.com. Cost about $50 a year and
absolutely no headaches. It is so cheap that it isn't worth your time
configuring your own email server anymore, or paying for an internet
connection for it. Very rarely are there any problems
Al Musella, DPM
Musella
ot to have it.
thanks
Al Musella, DPM
Musella Foundation
i know one of the items that makes me very uncomfortable is the apparent
code incompatibility on the locking issues. i.e. code written for CF server
4.5.1 locking doesn't easily work on 4.0 and
I am no sql expert, but I had the same problem, and solved it by using the
export wizard. Just highlight the database in sql server and right click -
select export... then follow the wizard and select the new sql server as
the destination. Went quickly and easily. (assuming both are
Also check your hard drive space on your system partition. Running low on
space screws everything up, and this is one of the signs.
Al
Keep getting an Error Code s1001 (Memory Allocation Error) on our CFServer
... Access97 driver is running out of memory ... anyone know what causes
this or
To kick out the first user:
When someone logs in successfully, create a UUID that is stored in the
database and pass along with the user ID. Then in application.cfm, I check
the that the UUID and user ID match in the database. IF they don't they get
kicked out to the login page.
IF someone
I would think a better way to separate it would be to have the sql
server by itself on one box, and the webserver with asp and cold fusion on
the other box.
It would get too complicated the way you said.
Also - code the path for all graphics using a variable in the
application.cfm
A script that has been working great for years under cf3, then cf4 then
cf5 now MX started throwing the error:
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Sorry - here it is again... (I must have used the line that Michael uses
to check for the start of the footer:)
A script that has been working great for years under cf4 then cf5 and MX
for a few months, then it just now started throwing the error:
. . . .
An
A long time ago, I made a really stupid mistake that results in deletion
of all data from a table... almost embarrassed to admit this in public, but
it might apply here.
There was an admin page with a list of all of the records in the table,
along with a link to delete or edit each
I also now put a confirmation page between the link to delete and the
actual delete page.. this confirmation page has a form where you have to
actually type the word DELETE into a form field and hit the submit button
to do the deletion, so a web crawler can't trigger it.
At 09:30 AM 2/5/2003,
I moved 2 websites from my server, which was running CF 4.5, to a new
server running CF MX. (on windows 2000)
Of course, everything was fine when we tested, but when the DNS changes
went live, about a week ago, everything appeared ok at first, but we just
noticed something very strange:
if
Thanks guys! Everything works now.. I should have read the manual first..
but it was panic time:)
I guess they want to pad their tech support hours by leaving a gotcha
like that in there!
Al
I don't write installer code, but at least ASK the user if they are
using IIS with multiple
I think it is more that they expect people to read the manual. Why
bother making a manual otherwise?
True.But I actually did read (maybe skimmed should be more like
it:) the release notes.. Perhaps wording it differently would have made it
stick in my mind.. telling us what would
I am trying to display results from a survey...
When I create a bar chart for a frequency distribution of the
responses, the Y axis displays how many times a response was selected, but
the labels are not whole numbers. they appear as, for
example: 01.4 2.33.9 etc.. I want
No - the data is already integers.. it is just the labels that are scaled
wrong..
At 07:42 PM 8/13/2002 -0400, you wrote:
use the #int(variable)# function will return the smallest whole number
matt
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I may do things the hard way, but the approach I take is to put a
comment in the files that I do not want indexed, like:
! DO NOT INDEX!!! --
Then, when indexing them, I use cffile to list the files in the
directories, and cfhttp to read them. I look for that comment, and if not
What I do is set up a site-wide missing template handler (In the cold
fusion admin) that points to a file that contains the following script:
===
cfif isdefined('http_host')
cflocation url=http://#http_host#/404.cfm; addtoken=No
/cfif
I have made a few mistakes on this topic in the past - from both sides
of the fence. I won't bore you with the details, but my thoughts for the
next try:
1. It is worth a try to spend a small part of your time on something like
this, because you are never going to get rich working by the
I am working on something similiar here - printinout out information onto
medical forms - and think I got the easiest answer:)
Just print it out using plain html and style sheets to exactlly position
the fields where they have to be on the form. In testing, it looks like it
will work on many
I have to put together a proposal for a medical office management
application which will be used in an ASP (application service provider -
not the MS language:) model.. one of the requirements is that the
application has to be hosted in such a way that a major disaster (natural
or
This actually looks like a great business opportunity for some of the
ISPs on this list to work together on. I got private email from a bunch of
people offering to handle the hosting.. but none of their websites actually
mention something like geographic redundancy.
It could be a new
This might not be applicable in your case, but a technique I use instead of
emailing private information (I deal with medical information, where there
are strict new rules coming out for how you handle it.. HUGE fines for the
non-compliant!) is to allow doctors to log in to a website using
Most of my database files are in SQL server, but I have a few left over
that are in access tables. Every night I run a combination of batch files
and automated tasks that:
1. copy all access files to a temp directory (the files can be copied from
within a dos batch file for some reason,
Hi.
I am trying to write a function to check POP mailboxes and delete all
bugbear viruses..
it appears that cfpop with getHeaderOnly does not tell you the name of the
attachment. Is there any other way to get the names of the attachments
without downloading the message?
Al
a1webs.com
Unfortunately no, I don't have access.
This worm is getting to be a pain in the neck.. How is everyone else
handling it?
Al
At 10:22 PM 8/23/2003, you wrote:
Do you have physical access to the machine with the mail? If so, get the
CFX_OdsMime tag from coolfusion.com. Do a CFDIRECTORY on the dir
I do this all of the time with straight HTML.. Use style sheets to
format the pages nicely and to display the letterhead part, and just use
cold fusion to insert the variables at the right place. Make sure they set
the browser to not print a header or footer. I have a button on a page
? I'm still using
CF 4.5.2...is what you're doing possible with that?
I've created printable forms using CSS and CF variables,
but only as single documents, not as multiple printouts
from a mail merge...
Rick
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From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent
In the old days, Allaire used to always donate CF (and studio) to my
nonprofit brain cancer support organization.. but macromedia no longer
does. They did donate dreamweaver and Flash, but I am stuck on CF 5 :(.
Al Musella, DPM
President
Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Research
I tried Blue Dragon when it was first released and it didn't support a lot
of the things I use.. but I will check again.
Al
At 10:13 AM 4/9/2005, you wrote:
Is Blue Dragon an option?
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Hate to say, but how about moving back to the old servers, to give you time
to work on the new servers and figure out the problem?
I would then re-format the drive on the new server, and install windows and
cf again.. then run diagnostics on the new disks.. then test it for a few
days to see
I am about to upgrade a cf 5 server to cfmx6.1. (running on windows
server 2000 and IIS)
I tested everything on my laptop, but am worried about surprises. I
have a few webistes on the server, and IF there are problems, I need a way
to back out to the current version quickly while
Mike,
Are you looking for ideas to show off the Central concept?
A perfect example of it's use would be a medical office management system:
Central could help organize all of the different modules needed.. for
example:
the doctor could use a handheld device with Central just displaying
I just started doing something interesting and thought I would share it:
A customer was complaining that he was missing some emails from his
website recently, probably getting lost in a sea of thousands of virus
emails...
I always stored the information in a database as well as email it to the
Hi.
My brain is fried... was working on this all night.I am not into
networking..
A friend has a network set up using a windows 2000 domain controller
to control the entire network, except for 1 stand alone computer that is
not part of the domain.As I said - it is my friend's network. I have no
For this 1 time project, you could also just download the trial version of
sql server
http://www.microsoft.com/sql/
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My brain is fried... this should be easy:
3 tables:
Contacts:name and contactID(one entry for each doctor)
Trials: Has List of clinical trials.TrialID, DateUpdated(each trial can
have multiple doctors, each doctor can have multiple trials)
ContactDetails: ContactID, Trial ID(for many to many
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Sent: Friday, March 12, 2004 3:09 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Need sql help
My brain is fried... this should be easy:
3 tables:
Contacts:name and contactID(one entry for each doctor)
Trials: Has List of clinical trials.TrialID
Hi.
I want to create a .pdf that contains multiple pages with forms filled
in with data from cf.
I found how to create a pdf with a single form with filled in data
using an .fdf file, but I can't find the syntax of the fdf file format
(you have to pay to get the adobe documentation on
Why do you want to cluster? If it is for reliability, then that is ok.
But if you need speed, you may be best off just putting the IIS/CF on one
computer and the MSSQL2K on the other computer, since you already have one
license of each. The computers are cheaper than the licenses. If you do
Hi.
What a horrible weekend.. the ISP I co-locate my server at had to change
the IP range that we use.. (they changed providers)
I got everything working, except for some reason, I can't get cfmail to
work. I am using cf 5.0.0.0 enterprise. It was working fantastic for years
until the change
I have another clue!
New emails go right through the system..It is only the old ones. (There
are about 4,000 of them) that are stuck.
I cleared out the coldfusion/mail/spool directory (I moved them to a temp
folder) .. thentriggered an email from a feedback form, and it worked
perfectly.
I
Thanks.
I found a utility that does search and replace on a lot of files.. took
about 5 minutes and everything went out.
Just file this as another gotcha in case you ever have to change IP
addresses!
Al
Either you can grep the files and replace the address of the smtp server
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It works ok for me with IE5
Could someone take a look at the following link and
please give me any suggestions they might have? TIA
https://www.seacrets.com/secure/reservation.cfm
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I have to program a letter writing campaign to senators and
representatives.What is the best way to look up the names and addresses
of the senators and representatives?Is there a web service that can help?
There is a way to look it up at
The obvious thing is to make sure you can access the cobol server from
the cfmx server.Log into the cfmxserver with the credentials cfmx runs
under then see if you can navigate to the cobol server.
Maybe somebody changed permissions or installed a service pack or firewall
that screwed things
You could add a flag for transactions that are not uploaded to the
server yet. When they add a new transaction, the flag is set.
When they connect to the server, run a script that finds the ones with the
flag set and upload them, and reset the flag
At 03:00 PM 10/28/2004, you wrote:
I've
I did that a few times.
One problem is keeping the databases in sync.. if you run them both
overlapping, some data will be entered into both servers- how do you
reconcile that?
What I did is set the TTL value in the dns of the old web server to a
low value, so when the change is made,
One other thing to speed up the process... temporarily turn off your
virus and/or spam filters on both the cf server and mail server while
sending these.
Since you don't really want to turn it off on the exchange server, set
up the IIS SMTP server on the cf server and use that.
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Providing lists of id numbers that they have to look up on paper is over
doing it..but I wouldn't post protected private health information on a
shared server. There is no way to secure it. The techs at the ISP have a
password and physical access to the computer and can browse all of your
If you want to keep this email for houseoffusion mail only, just set
a filter or whitelist/blacklist to delete mail to that email address
except if it comes from 64.118.74.249 .
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One of my clients is a law firm.. on the 4th of July, someone broke
into their office and stole the server as well as all of their computers.
Luckily they had a good backup plan, so they didn't lose any data
from the server.
The problem is that a lot of private information like names, social
I don't suppose they used Vista with Bitlocking on the HDD? That
would make any info on the HDD virtually useless.
They were still on windows2000 server. That would have been smart.
I will recommend it for the new system..
Boy was this aggravating.
This might be a stupid question.. but if the server encrypts the
hard drive, would every user have to enter the password whenver they
need access? Or just the first user after the server boots?
How about for a web server.. when it reboots will it refuse to work
until someone types in the
I handle it the same way - with a little twist.
The user starts the process going. The actual emails are sent out by
a scheduled task which runs every 5 minutes - sending out the next
xxx messages waiting to be sent.. the user then is redirected to a
status page which shows how many of the
Hi
I am on CF7, with multiple websites on multiple IP addresses. When
I send mail using cfmail, I want the IP address in the headers to say
it came from the IP address of each website.
For example.
Website 1 is at ...100
Website 2 is at ...101
The headers from mail
No - that part isn't the problem.. it is one step lower.. the
bottom header is the cold fusion server.. not the mail server.. here
are the headers:
Received: from mail.mymailserver.com (mail.mymailserver.com
[xx.241.156.98]) by rly-mf08.mx.aol.com (v119.12) with ESMTP id
The problem is that when you do a reverse dns lookup on the email
message, it doesn't come back as the domain name that the mail was sent from.
I send newsletters from a few websites, and they have been getting
rejected by a lot of major ISPs. My spf is set to all mail from the
correct ip
, .108 is the domain of my web site, .98 is my mail server)
It doesn't sound right to me. They did mention I could pay to
make sure my email gets through. Sounds like they are randomly
blocking email to extort me? Does anyone else get seemingly random
blacklisting?
Al Musella, DPM wrote
Thanks.
I will try changing the mailer from coldfusion to Eudora. (That
is what I use and my mail always seems to go through!).
I am thinking it is an extortion attempt. They want to force us
into paying for email.
Jochem van Dieten wrote:
Can you send an email directly to me from
First make sure you have java installed.. go to java.com and install
the latest version..
If that doesn't work, go into IE's tool menu, then internet options,
then advanced and allow the java stuff!
At 05:03 PM 11/26/2007, you wrote:
How can I get IE7 to stop protecting me from my CF
If you aren't familiar with Java, You may want to use a different
tool.. you can create a simple windows program in something like
powerbaisc (powerbasic.com) that can easily read a com port and
process the data and save the lat/lon to a database. It is really
simple syntax. Then your cold
I have the same problem...
I handle it by setting a path variable in the application.cfm.. if the
SERVER_NAME=localhost then set path to '/whmedia/' if not, set it to '/'
then whereever this problem pops up, use:
#path#image.gif
Al
At 02:30 PM 4/27/2006, Aaron Roberson wrote:
You
Is it possible that you are mixing files from different versions of cf?
At 10:19 PM 4/28/2006, you wrote:
On 4/28/06, brian wood [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Thanks for the help.
Sorry I forgot to mention if the files differ. It seems that they do:
-rw-r--r--1 01157894 mkpasswd
I am sending a daily newsletter to 7000 people. I used yahoogroups
to send them for years , but they changed the format so now I am
using cf to send the emails..
I switched over to using cf last week, and had a lot of complaints. I
resolved all except for 1 who is still not getting it (I told
He checked his spam filters and called his ISP - they are not filtering it.
The ISP was wrong.. they were filtering it out into a black hole.
We bumped it up to a higher level of support - because this was an
important email - and if he wasn't getting this, he might be missing
other stuff
http://127.0.0.1:8500/cfide/administrator
To view the website:
http://your_IP_address_or_DNS_name:8500/
to go to administrator:
http://your_IP_address_or_DNS_name:8500/cfide/administrator
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I do it with a scheduled task that runs every 5 minutes around the
clock. It checks for newsletters that have to be sent and if there
are some to be sent, it sends the next 500 and marks those as sent.
works nicely so far... I have an status page that refreshes itself
every few minutes
I meant an elegant way of sorting a list of email addresses so that
all mail to AOL (and att, yahoo, gmail) is evenly distributed
throughout the batch - the reason I do this is not because of page
timeouts.. but because when I send too many messages to AOL, Yahoo
and ATT, they go into a
I don't know how this could possibly happen...
on 2 of my websites, someone hacked into the admin areas and
changed hundreds of things by clicking links. I log every action
taken, along with the ip address of who did it and traced back the ip
to googlebot.
I was using IIS basic
You hit it..
it was the web accelerator.
I now know that I should not let a simple clicked link change
anything. Both of these sites were written in cold fusion version 2
and 3 when I didn't know better:) WAY too many pages to go back and
change them now. I thought since it was password
Actually, in my defense:)
the web accelerator is not supposed to follow a link that has a
query parameter... and it worked correctly for a long
time.. apparently a recent update to it introduced a bug where it IS
following links with query parameters. I reported it to google.
It
I had the strangest thing happen... My server was working fine with
no crashes for over 2 years..no reboots except for patches..
after the last round of updates, the server slowed way down, and
occasionally got so slow it wouldn't serve any pages.
My monitoring software reported it was down
I implemented something like that a few weeks ago ( checking time to
post and also the referrer) and it does help a lot... most of the bots
somehow set the referrer to be the action page.. but some set it to
the original form page also.. but the time never looks
right.. usually either 0
I had the same problem once...
I know you aren't supposed to do this, but I had to make a fast
change to a database table and opened up the live sql table in
enterprise manager.. I made the change fast, then got distracted and
left the table open.. I got a bunch of complains about the entire
One thing that I have done that helped tremendously:
I run a brain cancer web site. The feedback form would usually
get about 50 real responses a day - and about 500 spams a day.
One problem I have is that there is no tolerance for false negatives
- these are very important messages.
I
I posted an interesting video on my website and it got so popular
that it saturated my server's internet connection...
so I turned to google and posted the video on google - for free, then
embeded it in my webpage.. works great!
My question - is there a catch? any reason NOT to use google
If the problem isn't solved, a band-aid fix might be to just
redirect domainname.com/ to www.domainname.com/in your application.cfm
Sessions work fine when someone is on http://www.domainname.com.
However, the Flash developer added a link to an ad on the home page
that uses
When my rss feed became too much of a resource hog (generating it on
every request), I just made my blog software generate a new static
rss page every time I added a blog entry.
A few days ago, I decided to put the last 3 blog entries on those
pages, using the rss CFC just like I do on my
the only other thing I would add is a counter of bad log in attempts.
if 5 attempts failed, I would lock out the account for a minute. If
more than 20 attempts, I lock it out until I reset it.
I have one very important page set up so that the user has to log in
with the same set of credentials
You have 13 items in the field names and are
trying to insert 14 values. you probably have an extra comma someplace
At 01:39 PM 2/12/2008, Adkins, Randy wrote:
Is WEIGHT specified as a numeric field or varchar?
If varchar, you need the '' relating to null.
the same for ShipBase.
Other than
The funniest ones are the people who want to have shared hosting for
less than $10 a month with multiple domains - then they complain the
servers are overloaded:)
What I was addressed was the nearly continuous arguments that run like this:
Poster 1: Hey guys, what's a good host?
Poster 2: My
One of my websites got hit.. I always use
cfqueryparam - at least for the last few years,
but some old code (this website started with
version 1 of CF) was still hanging around that
was unprotected. I used that scanning tool and it
found about 20 unprotected querries out of about 20,000...
That may help with this particular attack, but I already have seen 2
versions of it today.. Both happened to have the EXEC(
but there are variations that use other key words.
The correct way (which unfortunately I found out through failure:) is:
1. Run a scanner like:
My thinking is:
The way it appears, a zombie will hit about 2 -12 pages on my web
server - over the course of a few seconds - then leave me alone..
On the first page they hit, if I ban them, then the next 1 to 11
tries will not succeed even if they happen to find a vulnerable file
Ben,
Seeing as how this type of sql injection attack is succeeding so
much (even my favorite fishing website has been down for days due to
it (it is a .cfm site))...
how about changing cfquery so that by default, only ONE sql
statment can be sent. Let us override that with a parameter in
OK.. You are right.. drop my request..
but I would request 3 other enhancements to dreamweaver to make these
changes easier:
1. Put the sql queryparam on the main CF toolbar..
2. When you right click the file name in the Files area you can
select PUT.. I would like to add that functionality
I won't mention names but a few popular websites I use have been
hit.. one was down for 3 days now.
Recently I set up an annonymous ftp server.. I needed a few people to
send me files and I thought that would be the easiest way. the url
was private - not published anywhere.. 2 days later
I set up a scheduled task to check my database every 15 minutes. It
looks for my entry in the users table, and compares my email address
and website address with what is in the database. IF it differs, I
get an email. I did the same thing for 10 different tables.
If I do find any
And on top of that there is a story since Monday about DNS that is much
scarier and much closer to home to most readers.
I am surprised we are not hearing about this on the list.. just in
case you haven't been getting the MS alerts or other news sources
telling you about it: there is a new
I would not use both database at the same time. Just forward people
from the old website to the new one.
If you have a static ip address on the new one, it is easy. Just do
a meta refresh on the old site to bring you to the new IP
address.. you can delay it and post a message about the move..
I use google checkout for a non-profit organization - they do not
charge any processing fees for nonprofits - at least until the end of 2009...
they have been excellent so far.
At 09:10 PM 7/27/2008, William Seiter wrote:
I get the feeling that Paypal is a bad choice.
I have had some runins
I am still on an older version of cf, but does cf
8 have a restrict debug output to specified
ips? Check that your ip address is specified.
Maybe there is something in the CF code that is suppressing the debug
output...?
On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 2:54 PM, Alex I [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I have the same problem on cf 7. It happens about once a month.. on
a site that I volunteer for - just hadn't had the time to debug the problem..
I have to manually delete the directory, then recreate the
collection, then repopulate it.
It happened to me again.. a verity collection disappeared..
Any ideas on how to approach finding the cause?
On my server, version 7,0,1,116466 . there are 12 verity
collections. 3 are flaky.. they all belong to the same website and
randomly disappear for no apparent reason. The other 9
Your database contains all its object names in metadata tables, which can be
queried directly.
It was mentioned last week, but just to re-iterate:
You should set the permissions on the system table so that you can
not read or write to the system tables. There is no need for it, and
by
I meant to say: Set the deny permission on the system table to the
user that you use to access the database from cf
At 07:27 PM 8/7/2008, you wrote:
You should set the permissions on the system table so that you can
not read or write to the system tables. There
Here are my top 50: Note that the top 1 is in the same subnet as your
top 1. I had 134,993 attempts that I caught..
IP (times)
203.160.1.52 (705)
203.162.3.160 (373)
203.160.1.76 (325)
61.164.132.230 (325)
59.15.212.125 (258)
210.112.177.244 (252)
70.189.143.59 (219)
221.253.217.138 (204)
times. Users are starting to
complain.. it is going on for too long.
Now look at how many of those are from Asia Pacific Network Info Centre
..:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.:.
Bobby Hartsfield
http://acoderslife.com
http://cf4em.com
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From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED
I heard back from the FBI.. a live agent, not an automated response
like I was expecting:)
They don't seem to care, but suggested that I report it to CERT at
https://www.cert.org/reporting/incident_form.txt
Perhaps if a few of us reported it to CERT, they will investigate.
By the way - I hit
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