What permissions (I am using windows 2000 server) does cold fusion
require on directories that contain .cfm files?
Al Musella, DPM
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I would love to see them combined. Add studio's code editor to the UD
WYSIWYG editor - how can you beat that combination. Make it seemless to
switch back and forth! I never could get Studios design mode to work right
- just replace it with UD!
Al
At 03:02 PM 5/5/2001 -0700, you wrote:
Deleting that many records could tie up the server for a while, because
each individual delete is being logged.
If you used truncate table, the deletions are not logged, and would cut
about 99.99% of the time off of the operation.
As to counting the records, don't select them to count them,
Another possibility, assuming you are using sql server, is set up a trigger
on the database that creates the text file that you need,
P.S. The background page is performing several queries. The query results
are then used to create a text file. We don't want the user to have to wait
for
Internal server error sometimes means that the permissions are messed
up. Try allowing everyone full access to the page, and try again, then
work backwards and see how high you can set the permissions and still have
it work..
Does anyone know what permissions have to be set for cf to
?? This
way we could all help raise money to fight cancer, without it costing us
anything!
Al Musella, DPM
President
Musella Foundation For Brain Tumor Reseach And Information
virtualtrials.com
And while we are at it, Instant ColdFusion will be out soon as well. It
is now available (pre-order
I have to create a medical website that communicates with a program that
uses the HL7 protocol. I never heard of that, and I have to talk to
their programmers tomorrow and don't want to look that stupid:) Anyone
know what they are talking about?
Al Musella, DPM
virtualtrials.com
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From: Al Musella, DPM [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 4:08 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Anyone hear of the HL7 protocol?
I have to create a medical website that communicates with
a program that
uses the HL7 protocol. I never heard of that, and I have
Strange problem:
I send out a newsletter occasionally. I wrote the scripts about 2 years
ago, and haven't changed them. They worked perfectly until recently. Now,
whenever I send a newsletter, 2 copies get sent to each recipient. The
only difference is that the list is growing. I now have
are co-located,
and do not even have MS access installed.
I do use MTS packages to copy the database to my home computer a few times
a day.. would that exclusively lock the table and cause problems?
Thanks
Al Musella, DPM
A1webs.com
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If you just need simple pie charts or bar graphs, the java applets that
used to come with CF work out fine..
Take a look at survey results I just did for someone:
http://a1webs.com/pm-news/graphs.cfm
the survey is at:
http://a1webs.com/pm-news/
(don't look at the ugly colors - it had to
I don't think it would be practical for general use, but for a specific
function that is often used and too slow now, it may do the trick. The
easiest approach would be to use something like Delphi to handle the
complicated interface stuff, then use inline assembly (Delphi allows you to
I have another solution:
I send out a newsletter every day and it was starting to get too
big - it would really slow down performance doing it all at once on the server.
Every night, I backup a copy of the live database onto my home computer.
So now, I use my home computer -
, then copy the files back to the new server, and voila!
Al Musella, DPM
Musella Foundation
At 01:25 PM 12/8/2000 -0500, you wrote:
I need to replace my aging NT 4.0 / CF 4.0.1 Pro server with new hardware,
Win2K Adv. Server, and CF 4.5.1. At Verizon, we can only perform this kind
of change during
Most DTS tasks require the full version, not the desktop version. The full
version won't run on windows 2K pro.Are you running W2kPro?
If not, try installing the SQL server SP2.
If that doesn't work, try service pack 3 beta.
I don't think you can completely uninstall sql server... the only
I have been getting this error message a lot lately.. I have no idea where
the problem is.
When it happens, I have been rebooting the cold fusion server and sql 7
server. Then it works for a while and then stops.
ODBC Error Code = 37000 (Syntax error or access violation) [Microsoft][ODBC
s Lomvardias
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400 E. Pratt Street, Suite 300
Baltimore, MD 21202
(410)539-3737 x1722 voice
(410)539-7302 fax
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I just went through this also.. first thing to check is the setting of the
saved file. There are many different formats, but the real producer is
finicky as to which it reads. Try saving as an uncompressed avi, and play
around with the settings.
Next go to the mgisoft.com site and download
a large dataset being cached and
what happens when it expires.. the next page to hit it has to re-run the
query. While that query is executing, other pages are still reading it.
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One of the "smaller" issues is backing up..
if the images are stored in the database, they will also be backed up
every time you back up the database. If you have a lot of graphics, it
will greatly increase the costs (time, media and slowing down the website)
to do your daily
for the new version.. is
anything like that available?
thanks
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a1webs.com
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I tried again, didn't work.. I think the versions are different..
can someone who has forums running on sql server 7 generate a script for me
to create the database? (from enterprise manager, just select the database,
then all tasks, then generate scripts..)
Al
I ported the database
That happens if you use cfform...
I avoid cfform for that reason..people using a slow connection sometimes
don't realize that the java applets are downloading and just leave, since
it takes so long.
Al
a1webs.com
At 09:08 AM 1/12/2001 +0700, you wrote:
When someone enter a page in my site
I can second that.. I had nothing but problems with the ONCR tag.. and
since using the allaire tag - not a single problem:)
I wonder why they took it down?
At 02:18 PM 1/16/2001 -0500, Michael Dinowitz wrote:
As someone who has worked with both tags and who doesn't want to bad mouth
Go to brainjar.com
they have a nice one that works only on ie5.5 and netscape 6.
(you can let cf select your current menu for the older browsers:)
Be careful you get one that is NN6 compatible. There are a lot of
scripts
out there and only a few I have seen that work with any degree of
I haven't been having problem with the old cybercash tag.. Is there any
compelling reason to upgrade to this new version?
Al Musella, DPM
Musella Foundation
At 10:08 AM 1/23/2001 -0500, Sam Coe wrote:
Yes, the original Allaire CFX_Cybercash component from Allaire was withdrawn
about two
Make sure you are logged on as an administrator!
Al
We are having difficulty removing a the clients registry key under:
HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE/SOFTWARE/ALLAIRE/ColdFusion/CurrentVersion/Clients
We have gone so far as disabling the CF Apps and rebooting to stop any
locking however it
You could use a frame at the top or side of the page, which refreshes
itself every minute (using a meta refresh tag), and has a count-down
displayed.. when it his 0, change the color to red or something, and then
delete his session variables.
Al Musella, DPM
a1webs.com
We have a need
Also throw in that they would have to buy another $5,000 copy of cold
fusion for the development machine, and it would just be cheaper to buy
another server - one for cold fusion (move cold fusion off the other server
onto the new one), one for asp and to let you run the cold fusion server.
The first thing I would try is to reformat the drive, reinstall Windows,
the web server and cold fusion..
Inetinfo shouldn't crash no matter what you do to it. A lot of times there
are .dll version conflicts that cause it.
Do not put anything else on the server.
Al
a1webs.com
At 10:36 PM
If you decide to co-locate, you may want to start out with just 1 server,
and put cold fusion, web server and SQl server on it.. then if your
performance isn't good enough, THEN move the sql server to it's own machine.
You can let the ISP take care of your mail - it is cheaper than
l require moderation ( a moderator would have to approve anything they
send to the list) for their posts. On the second infraction, put them on
moderation - until they get a string of "good" posts through.
Al Musella, DPM
Musella Foundation
At 08:36 PM 2/17/2001 -0700, you wrote:
I mentioned this a while back, but it bears repeating
you can not rely on the backup process without testing it... once in a
while: open the backed up tables on your development machine, and make
sure that:
1. There is data in each column.
2. the number of records is the same as the
You can cheat a little..
create a table that holds the cfid and cftoken. Add a field that is a
unique ID. Fill it with createuuid()..
Pass that unique ID to the payment processor, then when it returns, look up
the cfid and cftoken.. then cflocate to whereever you want.
Al
I am trying to
Have an autoincrement field in the database.
use it as the key to get each group. For example, on the first round, you
would do:
select whatever from whatever, where
ID N1 and ID N2
Pass N1 and N2 back and forth between templates, and have a next group,
previous group manipulate N1 and
trials.com/links.cfm for it in action!
Al Musella, DPM
A1webs.com
At 01:06 PM 3/13/2001 -0600, you wrote:
Hello,
For our Web site, I use a ColdFusion redirect page to display a legal
disclaimer when linking to external sites. To have this redirect text
appear in the template before the user leaves
ction error.
IF I try:
cfhttp url="http://208.206.10.16/braintumorusers.html" method="GET" port
= "8000" resolveurl="false"
/cfhttp
The page redirects to the chat page itself.
has anyone ever tried this with chatspace?
Thanks
Al Musella, DPM
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Check that the VB app is not updating the record in SQL2000... if it
is, it will fire the trigger in an endless loop.
Also check that 2 instances of the vb file aren't trying to write to the
same text file at the same time.
Al
An application we are designing is behaving rather strangely.
The easiest thing to do is look at the current box, and see how much RAM is
being used.
Most likely, that is how much you will be using on the new box.. maybe less
when cf 5 comes out:)
My server has 1 gig of ram, and so far the most I ever used , and I have
sql server on the same box along
by pointing out that the UUID is "predictable" are you saying that using it
for security purposes is not recommended?
UUIDs are not predictable.. take a look at this sequence I just tried. I
can't find the pattern.. can you?
038E0B1C-CF53-4F06-A646367FD3CBC92F
I have no experience in this at all - but see nobody else answered..
I would guess that their "access token" is just a cookie.
I would think you could use cfhttp to log in, and then read the cookie,
then use that cookie in a CFHTTPPARAM
tag when you have to get other information from the AOL
available, and when you click to get the details - the
record is no longer there, so it generates an error.
So - how do you clear the cache? Hopefully with cfcode without having to
restart the CF server?
Al Musella, DPM
A1webs.com
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Structure your
For each dropdown box or checkbox, have 3 choices:
Y = Yes - I need this
N = No - I do not want this
D = Doesn't matter
When you go to set up the sql statment, do something like:
Select col1,col2,col3,etcfrom amenities
Where (1=1)
cfif hottubs is not 'D'
And ( hottubs =
If it is that busy, you may be able to turn it into a business. Don't
just stop at getting your expenses paid. Turn it into your part time job,
and look into co-locating your own server.
If you don't have the time and or money to get started, look around for
someone to partner with.
I voted 5 few times, and it seemed to accept my vote.. the vote counter
went up by one each time.
At least no error messages!
Also - you may be better off using a regular form instead of cfform. Even
with a high speed cable modem, it took a lot of time to download the java
.. on a slow
You could also just test in the application.cfm.. if the server
variables are not defined, make one up! If you rely on a scheduled task,
there will always be a chance that a page could execute before the variable
is declared and trigger an error.
Al
he domain name will not change in
There may be a much simpler way:
For each ad, just have 1 field that specifies what % that ad should have.
Whenever you add / edit an ad (maybe use a trigger), have it then fill in
(or update) 2 more fields, call it N1 and N2, with the numbers from 0 to
100 which represent that fraction
ew average. This ensures that if a buyer purchases
100,000 impressions for 30 days, that is exactly what they get.
Chris Terrebonne
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From: "Al Musella, DPM"[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: banner ad weighting
Date: Thu, 13 Apr
Hi.
There was talk about this error a while ago - has anyone ever found out
how to fix it?
I am using Windows NT4 service pack 6a, Cold fusion 4.5.1(Preview
release) and IIS4 on 1 server, NT4 SP6a and SQL Server 7.0 SP2 on the db
server.
Is this problem occurring on the web server or
You can hide it within a frameset.
Check using javascript to see if you are in a frame, if not, pop yourself
back into a frame. This prevents people from right clicking a link on your
page and selecting open in another window.
Al
If I have a url link as:
a
I had this problem and came up with a slightly different fix:
In the form that submits the data, I get the next record number, which is
the primary key for the table (I use a separate table to generate the next
id for each table - because in the old days you couldn't count on SQL
server's
Try disabling any automated maintanace tasks... it may be that it is
putting the db into single user mode to process the task, then not
completeing successfully, so it never gets to removing the single user
mode. Check your error logs for problems relating to automated maintanace
tasks.
At
if that text is in the page.
If not, I add it to the verity index.
Al Musella, DPM
A1webs.com
At 04:33 PM 10/3/2001 +0100, you wrote:
Ok,
I have been trying to think of ways to create a static copy of a site for
Verity to index properly. At the moment it is built from loads of includes
etc
just reinstall cf!
Al
At 10:15 AM 6/2/2000 -0500, you wrote:
We just had to reinstall MS IIS, and now our CF pages are coming up as text.
Any ideas? Happy to send more information.
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I had that happen on a laptop once also. It was a bad video driver. Go to
the website of your computer's manufacturer, and check for the latest video
driver.
If that doesn't fix it, in your display setting, turn off hardware
acceleration.
Al
a1webs.com
Greetings!
I have a strange thing
dex the database, so I can
use the title field. There has to be an easier way?
Al Musella, DPM
virtualtrials.com
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Thanks for the response. i will try #2..
I do #3 now, but it takes too much time:)
Better to spend the time once a day in the middle of the night than all
day long for each search!
Al
At 03:43 PM 6/17/2000 -0700, you wrote:
The issue is that the file you want indexed does not contain
I hate to say this, but if ALL session reads and writes should be
locked, why can't cold fusion just do it for us automatically. It's like a
throwback to the old days when we had to worry about garbage collection and
memory allocation.. if we wanted to do that we would write our web apps
Just ran into a problem with my backup system
my server is co-located at an ISP, so I have to backup over the internet..
I have an exact copy of the website on my local server, which is backed
up to CDs. I am the only person who writes code for this server.. so I
know I have all of
It looks like downloading it with PCanywhere without first zipping it may
do the trick it is going very fast... thanks.
As to what is in it, mainly the archives of a mailing list I am sure
this list's archives are many times that size already!
Al
I understand that, but 1.2 GB
the easiest way to tell is to try to lead a html page. IF it works, the
problem is with CF, if it doesn't, the problem is with IIS.
IF it is a cf problem, try re-installing it.
IF you are connected to the internet, and didn't apply the code red patch,
you are probably infected.
Al
At
until it finds something. By using 2 UUIDs,
that would be impractical.
Al Musella, DPM
At 07:56 PM 8/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
A simple solution to this URL truncation problem may be to create a
table in your database to use a storage repository for the WDDX packet,
insert the WDDX
Also - you have to worry about the new patches from microsoft that cut off
long URLs.. as well as firewalls that are now looking for long URLs.. it
might make sense to stay away from long urls from now on..
Al
At 07:45 PM 8/17/2001 -0400, you wrote:
First Template
cfwddx
Check that the TO and FROM address are valid email addresses your mail
serve might be rejecting ones that don't have it
To check, go into the undeliv folder and open up a few of the messages
If you see most of them have bad email addresses, just check before you
create the message - and
Ask to join the NEO beta you might not have to read books about web
services maybe just a paragraph or 2:)
There are a number of books that deal with web services, but nothing that
involves Cold Fusion (where web services is the primary topic of the book)
I'm sure the NDA on Neo has
Not sure if this would apply to your case, but what I do in a situation
like that is to create a custom field with the information that you want
displayed.. and add that to the verity index ..for example,
cfoutput query=listAll
cfset title2 = title ' - ' dateformat(pubdate,
Wouldn't it be easier to just make the link go to a page on your website
that can then record the click, figure out where to go and then redirect to
whereever you want to go?
The downside to using the idea below is that it will slow down the
original page from loading especially when your
My experience... I was having a nightmare of a time until the updater
came out.. but since then, mx has been working great for me. I haven't had
to reboot since I installed the updater.
I was in the beta program, and by the end of the beta program, all of
my code was working fine on
I would give them 3 prices:
1. Create a new site that works correctly and is well organized
2. Fix existing site so it works. Make this 75% of the cost of #1
3. Upgrade from #2 to #1 - maybe 50% of the cost of #1.. (so you would
do #2 first, then #1, and make 125% of the cost of #1)
Is it possible that there isn't enough free disk space?
The problem is, the CF index has quit working on this database. I
have
not changed a single line of code. The CFQUERY prior to the
CFINDEX
used to retrieve the db records works normally.
Does anyone happen to have code to lookup a zip+4 code given the street
address?You can get the zip+4 off the post office website at
http://www.usps.com/zip4/ but I am having problems using cfhttp to post
the request...
Al
stuff there.
Al
On 2/25/03 7:47 PM, Al Musella, DPM [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Does anyone happen to have code to lookup a zip+4 code given the street
address?You can get the zip+4 off the post office website at
http://www.usps.com/zip4/ but I am having problems using cfhttp to post
I know - they made it difficult, but there has to be a way:)
This is for a non profit brain cancer website.. so that people can look
up their senators and representatives.
Al
note what they say about their web tool...
ZIP+4 Lookup is intended for interactive use, not automated script
I think you are forgetting situations like mine, which is probably very
common..
my website is co-located at an isp. They also provide me with incoming
mail for my email account. All of my DNS stuff says that
virtualtrials.com 208.206.10.19 (or something like that:) is the mail server.
One possible solution is to convert the current date to a julian
date, mod 5 and that is your week number.
Al
Query 1.
5 separate ads that run for a week each and rotate each Monday morning. I
need to run ad 1 for a week, then ad 2 for a week, ad 5 for a week, and
then recycle to ad
oops.. messed that up.
something like:
julian date / 7 mod 5 I think will do it..
At 01:37 PM 12/5/2002, you wrote:
One possible solution is to convert the current date to a julian
date, mod 5 and that is your week number.
Al
I never saw that message, but the first thing I would do is check the
hard drive. It may be a sign of impending hard disk failure. Run
diagnostics on it and listen to it to see if it is making strange noises.
It could also be a sign of a problem with the controller or cable.
First run a
and convert it to a list. Any ideas?
As an added bonus, it would be nice if the list was delimited with "br"
instead of "," :)
thanks
Al Musella, DPM
Musella Foundation
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The problem with this approach is you lose the ability for search engines
to index the content of your pages.. most won't go into a frameset, because
if they index a page in a frame, they have no way of loading the frameset
then inserting the desired file into that frame.
Frames have their
For things like datasource names, wouldn't it just be easier to define
it in application.cfm as a local variable? Why add the overhead of
locking / checking if it is defined then setting it, etc... at all?
cfset DSN = 'mydata'
instead of
cflock ...
cfif
I might not follow this correctly, but loginname will ALWAYS be equal to
LoginName.. sort of like:
cfif 1 != 1
Al
A1webs
cfif LoginName IS NOT LoginName
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I found a simple way to "crash" CF.. just include a file in itself..
or an endless loop.
I think that uses up all available resources until cf can't function anymore!
For example: in header.cfm
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...
cfinclude template = "header.cm"
...
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I am not a guru - but may have a work-around until someone gives you the
best answer:)
Set up the text file as an odbc text datasource, and let CF read it in one
at a time, then update the sql database.
OR
bcp it into a temporary table, then use that table to do the update of the
live
No problem at all. All links need to pass an id. To make sure users
don't fiddle with it, I send a userID and a unique id (CreateUUID())..
then in the application.cfm, I check if the userid and unique ID match. If
not they get bumped out to the login page again.
I use that technique on
Bud,
If you went through all of this trouble already, why not just get rid
of all session / client / application variables all together. I don't
really see the need for them. You can create your own database, and your
own clientID and password, and pass them along to each form This way
I assume you mean a "read-only" table?
I use a separate database with the same table structure as the live data,
in sql server, where I upload the data over the internet. The information
is stored in my local computer, but has to be "massaged" into a format to
make it faster to display on
I took a look at the site - nice look! (I love fishing!)
I think I see your mistake.. it is a very common error with newbies to
cf.. you are using at least 2 sets of headers...
go to the site, select view source, and you will see (removing extraneous
stuff and brackets)
html
head
/head
There is a much simpler way: Something like:
cfquery name="search" datasource ="db"
Select ID, Descr from table 1
where 1=1
cfif colum1 is not '''AND f1 ='#colum1#' /cfif
cfif colum2 is not '''AND f2 ='#colum2#' /cfif
cfif colum3 is not '''AND f3 ='#colum3#'
I have a small home office with 5 computers hooked up to a network. I
have a cable modem ($29.95 / month) that goes into my file server which
runs windows 2000. Windows 2000 has the software built in to allow
connection sharing among the entire network. Took about 2 minutes to set
up. The
What I do is set a variable in the application.cfm called path, and then
whereever you need a mapping, just use:
#path#
for example, instead of dev/images
you set #path# = 'dev/'
then call:
#path#images
I actually use a little conditional logic in the application.cfm to
automate it.. I
It would also include StatusEnglish, StatusSpanish,StatusFrench, where
the status is bad if the phrase wasn't checked, and good if it was checked,
so that volunteers can be presented with phrases that weren't checked before!
I also have a table for each page - with status in each language.
One other thing to look for.. which caught me once... was a cfhttp that
was waiting for another website that was too slow..
search your entire webroot for the phrase cfhttp and then check the logs
to see how often pages with it are run.
Al
I might be seeing this wrong, but it looks like using regular strings
would work.
PlantA=''hdr // sinxe you said the header never changes, they all start
with it, right?
Plantb=''hdr'
Plantc='hdr'
Plantd='hdr'
then loop through each line of the input file, figure out which plant it
belongs
Strange problem. I just created my first flashmx remoting application. It
works perfectly inside the flashmx enviorment, using a cfc that resides on
my live server under cfmx.
If I open the .swf file in a browser, it also works perfectly.
If I publish it to an html file, and just open the
How bad would it be to just use a long password as the encryption key?
Require the password be over 10 characters and a mix of upper/lower case
letters and number.
This way they never have to copy and paste it in, they could just remember
it.
Al
I personally store it on my computer at
I meant for the owner of the website... when he wants to decrypt a credit
card number that is stored on the website, instead of entering the private
key by copying and pasting, just use the password.
Al
At 09:09 AM 6/21/2003 -0700, Matt Robertson wrote:
At that point wouldn't it be easier for
or cfcontent.
You can also use hard to guess filenames by prepending a UUID to the
filename.
Al
At 12:36 PM 9/10/2000 -0400, you wrote:
Of course, this opens the directory to nosy people trying random file
names to see movies that haven't been "given".
If that's a security problem, then
IF all reads and writes of memory variables have to be locked, why do we
have to be concerned with it? Why can't cold fusion just automatically lock
them? Has Allaire ever responded on this issue? Maybe we could all email
the request to allaire?
I have thousands of templates that were
I think that stock prices are VERY much affected by the internet these
days. Investors go to the website of the company , and check out newsgroups
and mailing lists. (I am sure many investors are watching this
list:)... to see what problems the company may be having. It is the only
source
I read that paper, and still would like to have an option for automatic
locking. Maybe add an attribute to the cfapplication tag: automatic
locking: on |off
The development time saved on it will more than offset the cost of a
faster processor needed for the 2 or 3 microseconds added
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