[ACFUG Discuss] CF 8 RDS help needed
Help! I'm transferring this question thread from the Flex discussion group over here. Trying to get CF8 RDS to let me in. Any help is appreciated! Thanks, Andy _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Childress Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:47 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Flex 3 - CF 8 path help You might try connecting to that machine's RDS by IP. At this point you might also post this question on the ACFUG (http://www.acfug.org) list for more help from the rest of the ACFUG group. Alot of those people are on this list too, but you'll probably get help from more people than just me on that email list. -Cameron On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 2:39 PM, Fox, Andrew J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alas, the RDS sections already exist in the xml file and are not commented out :-( I was able to add our CF7 development box to the RDS server list and it comes up fine. I just re-read my original post and saw what might be a significant typo. Flex Builder throws back a Cannot contact the RDS server 'petra'. Andy _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Childress Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 2:04 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Flex 3 - CF 8 path help Heh - whoops, I love it when this happens. I did a quick google and found a blog post about what looks to be your exact problem. Um... written by... me... two years ago. I just forgot about it, or I would have pointed you to it sooner. Check it out and see if it helps... http://tinyurl.com/642ow4 -Cameron On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:53 PM, Fox, Andrew J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: This is our development box so we did request RDS be set up. I do see the RDS section under Security and have re-entered the password just to make sure. It says Server has been updated successfully after I submit the change, so I guess it IS installed. Is there another place I should look to make sure? Andy _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Childress Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 1:48 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Flex 3 - CF 8 path help Well, unless there is a good reason to have RDS running, I would hope that the sysAdmin who set it up actually didn't install RDS at all. Did you setup this box? Are you sure RDS is actually active? You should be able to tell by looking in the administrator under security. -Cameron On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 1:40 PM, Fox, Andrew J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Thanks for the warning Cameron! I've backtracked a bit and discovered my Flex Builder 3 isn't able to connect to CF8 RDS (neither is my Dreamweaver CS3). I can access the CF administrator pages from my PC so I don't think it's a firewall issue. Anyone else had issues getting set up using CF8 on a solaris platform? This should be easy! Thanks, Andy _ From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Cameron Childress Sent: Tuesday, May 13, 2008 10:32 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [AFFUG Discuss] Flex 3 - CF 8 path help I've never used the import wizard, but I assume you are importing it as a CF based Flex project? If so you might try importing it as a regular project and just configuring that stuff later. When I first started using FlexBuilder 2 I had a ton of problems getting CF typed projects to setup properly, so I just started setting them up as generic Flex projects and configured the CF stuff later. Much, much easier. Also, as a side note, the abbreviation FB3 also has meaning in the ColdFusion world as the framework FuseBox 3. FB3 may be a common abbreviation for FlexBuilder too, but be aware of that when you are posting questions about CF and Flex in the same posting. I did a double take when I first read your email. :) -Cameron On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 8:07 AM, Fox, Andrew J [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I've got an application that was written in FB2 with CF7 that I'm trying to move to another server running CF8 and I'm now using FB3. I exported the app to a Flex Project Archive and am trying to import to a new project in FB3. My problem is that the import wizard is asking me to update the path variables for CF_FLEX_SERVER_ROOT but doesn't like my answer. I've tried both the mapped path as well as the full unix path and neither is accepted. \u1\cfmx8\wwwroot\WEB-INF\flex and everything back to just \u1\cfmx8 Also s:/cfmx8/wwwroot/WEB-INF/flex Any tips on what exactly it's asking for? I tried searching the documentation and Google for CF_FLEX_SERVER_ROOT but got nothing. -- Cameron Childress Sumo Consulting Inc http://www.sumoc.com --- cell: 678.637.5072 aim: cameroncf email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - To unsubscribe from this list, simply email the list with unsubscribe in the subject line For more info, see
Re: re[4]: [ACFUG Discuss] showing image from network share..how to?
Hi, Sorry for the delay in my response. I was busy fixing things. Mischa -- thanks for the browse suggestion in IIS. I kind of used that to solve this problem. The admin had just entered username for the virtual directory in connect as dialog box. So I entered the password as well and it works fine now. Finally, about my original solution not working for you Mischa, I am using the same FF version 2.0.0.14 and it worked. The solution which worked for me is the one where I use img src = img2.cfm code. Let me know if you still have problems in FF. Douglas thanks for the suggestion. I didnt check it but a very good point to remember about IIS should run under a domain acccount. *Acccepted Solutions Important Points to remember:* 1. instead of cfincluding the img.cfm, do a cfif fileExists(theFile) img src=...*img2.cfm* /cfif 2. Use browse feature in IIS to see if you can view the file/image to narrow out CF/Browser issue. 3. IIS should run under a domain acccount 4. Use CFContent cfcontent type=image/GIF file= \\servername\nameofshare\clientname\CF_Chart_Share\testimage.jpg Thank you everyone. Ajas. On 5/12/08, Douglas Knudsen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: yeah, to point IIS to a share, IIS needs to run under a domain account that has access to the share. DK On Mon, May 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM, Mischa Uppelschoten ext 10 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: : browse. The browser window opened and i got page cannot be displayed screen : : There is a problem with the page you are looking for, and it cannot be : displayed. : : Please try the following: * Contact the Web site administrator to inform them : that this error has occured for this URL address. HTTP Error 500 - Internal : server error. : Internet Information Services (IIS) : what could be wrong : Either: - allow Everyone to browse that share - Run IIS under a domain account or more exotic solutions like replicating your files to the webserver, setting up a webserver on the box that hosts the image files, using CFFILE to have the CF server read it etc. BTW, I duplicated your starting situation (use IMG tag to pull in image file from share) and interestingly enough, that does not work with Firefox (2.0.0.14), but it does work with IE 6 (SP2). FF simply does not show the image, but it is available allright through Tools - Page Info - Media... - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserformhttp://www.acfug.org/?fa=login.edituserformFor more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com- -- Douglas Knudsen http://www.cubicleman.com this is my signature, like it? - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserformhttp://www.acfug.org/?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink http://www.fusionlink.com/ - -- Ajas Mohammed / http://ajashadi.blogspot.com No matter what, find a way. Because thats what winners do. You can't improve what you don't measure. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
re: [ACFUG Discuss] CF 8 RDS help needed
: Help! I'm transferring this question thread from the Flex discussion group: over here Trying to get CF8 RDS to let me in. CF8 setup on Windows is not smooth, RDS does not seem to be installed properly at all. Have you checked like Cameron suggested that ide.cfm exists? It didn't for me, and manually creating it solved the problem. - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
Re: [ACFUG Discuss] How Load Files from Outside the Web Directory?
After a delay, I finally got back to my client's server to try your suggestions, and they worked perfectly. Security was the whole problem, and it was solved simply by going to Control Panel Admin Tools Services and giving Cold Fusion an id with privileges to the shared network discs I wanted to connect to. It turned out that my website's much earlier problem of not being able to read FoxPro data via ODBC (circumvented by making nightly copies of the relevant data to a directory I could reach) was solved in the same way: once ColdFusion had an id with the correct privileges, it could get to the FoxPro data with no problem. Interestingly, in both cases the error message I had received was 'File not found'. Could that be somebody's idea of an extra layer of security? To confuse people about what the real problem is? Many thanks to all! Peyton -Original Message- From: Mike Staver [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Apr 25, 2008 1:55 AM To: discussion@acfug.org Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] How Load Files from Outside the Web Directory? Good point Shawn. I suppose as long as you have the proper security in the first place, it isn't much of an issue. shawn gorrell wrote: Mike, There are usage scenarios when you might want to serve content from outside of the webroot. For example, let's say you have an application that serves PDF files, but you want to ensure that only authenticated users can get at the file. If you put it in a /pdf directory under the webroot and then provide a link to it directly, then someone can copy that link and send to another user who can get it without authentication (assuming you aren't using integrated authentication). For times like that, I'll put a directory outside of the webroot and have CF present it via CFCONTENT (file.cfm?fn=mypdf.pdf). That makes CF the intermediary so that you can ensure only authenticated users get it. - Original Message From: Mike Staver [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: discussion@acfug.org Sent: Thursday, April 24, 2008 4:18:46 PM Subject: Re: [ACFUG Discuss] How Load Files from Outside the Web Directory? In windows land, you access network shares like so: \\servername\sharename Or in dos with the \'s as well, like cd C:\ I can't remember what CF will do that off the top of my head. Working with file systems in linux, it's a forward slash. Web URL's are also forward slashes. So, I would think if I was on a windows box working with the file system, such as with cffile, I would use the native OS preference. If I was doing something with cflocation or cfcontent, I would use forward slashes since it will be displayed through a web browser. I think as others have said though, you can serve up content from outside the wwwroot directory - but it's my personal preference not to just based on a security stand point. I get a warm fuzzy feeling knowing that any content being served up is coming from inside the web directory and nowhere else, but it's a personal preference. Thanks Mike, I'll try that next time I'm at the client's place of business, after making sure I can get it working localhost. I do have a question about it though: I'm never clear when to use forward slashes vs. backslashes, but I do know that in writing web apps I've had much better luck with forward slashes. So by \\servername\sharename did you mean //servername/sharename? - Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com - - Annual Sponsor - Figleaf Software http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink http://www.fusionlink.com - -- -Mike Staver [EMAIL PROTECTED] - Annual Sponsor FigLeaf Software - http://www.figleaf.com To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com - - To unsubscribe from this list,
Re: re[4]: [ACFUG Discuss] showing image from network share..how to?
On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Ajas Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. instead of cfincluding the img.cfm, do a cfif fileExists(theFile) img src=...*img2.cfm* /cfif What does img2.cfm do? Does it return/output the web accessible path to the image file? 4. Use CFContent cfcontent type=image/GIF file= \\servername\nameofshare\clientname\CF_Chart_Share\testimage.jpg In your production code are you matching the type attribute to the actual file type? In your example here you are telling the browser that the file it is about to receive is a GIF but then you actually give it a JPEG. As the configuration of what this affects is in the browser you can't actually know if it will matter or not but I think it would be better to err on the side of caution. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. - Jeff Atwood - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
Re: re[4]: [ACFUG Discuss] showing image from network share..how to?
Hi, img2.cfm has this code below, thats all... cfcontent type=image/GIF file= \\servername\nameofshare\clientname\CF_Chart_Share\testimage.jpg Thanks for Gif vs jpg catch... I didnt notice that. I have type set as gif and image being shown is jpeg in production and it works in both firefox and IE. I will change it now that I know. Thanks, Ajas. On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 9:44 PM, Howard Fore [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, May 13, 2008 at 4:15 PM, Ajas Mohammed [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 1. instead of cfincluding the img.cfm, do a cfif fileExists(theFile) img src=...*img2.cfm* /cfif What does img2.cfm do? Does it return/output the web accessible path to the image file? 4. Use CFContent cfcontent type=image/GIF file= \\servername\nameofshare\clientname\CF_Chart_Share\testimage.jpg In your production code are you matching the type attribute to the actual file type? In your example here you are telling the browser that the file it is about to receive is a GIF but then you actually give it a JPEG. As the configuration of what this affects is in the browser you can't actually know if it will matter or not but I think it would be better to err on the side of caution. -- Howard Fore, [EMAIL PROTECTED] The universe tends toward maximum irony. Don't push it. - Jeff Atwood - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by FusionLink http://www.fusionlink.com - -- Ajas Mohammed / http://ajashadi.blogspot.com No matter what, find a way. Because thats what winners do. You can't improve what you don't measure. Quality is never an accident; it is always the result of high intention, sincere effort, intelligent direction and skillful execution; it represents the wise choice of many alternatives. Live as if you were to die tomorrow. Learn as if you were to live forever. - To unsubscribe from this list, manage your profile @ http://www.acfug.org?fa=login.edituserform For more info, see http://www.acfug.org/mailinglists Archive @ http://www.mail-archive.com/discussion%40acfug.org/ List hosted by http://www.fusionlink.com -
