Can Ruby Gems be installed without conflict along side of Coldfusion 8
on a Windows 2003 Server? thanks!
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Hi Dave, All we want to use Ruby for is to compile SASS into CSS for use with
Zurb Foundation pages used on our Coldfusion websites. Can this be done using
the same IIS? If not, what is the problem that occurs? Thanks.
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We're going to move to CF10 later this year but would like to improve our CF8
Verity search engine. Specifically, we've not been successful in using
suggestions based on other spellings of words in Verity. For example if someone
types in Steven Smith but it's really Stephen Smith, no results
We occasionally have a slow running request for no apparent reason. We have
Fusion-Reactor and can see that there is no heavy traffic on the server. The
same query run at a different time, runs just fine. The SQL db queries (as
shown by F-R) are running very fast. I/O is also fine at the time
Is there a CF plugin or CFC that will automatically sense which country a user
is coming from and then use the appropriate affiliate code for that particular
country's closest Amazon website for ordering, assuming the item's order number
is the same? Thanks.
We're caching parts of some key pages, but unfortunately some of the data has
to be live. When the bots start hitting us, our CF8 server can't keep up and we
get long running threads.
Is there an easy way to throttle url page requests? Perhaps throw up a note say
that the server is busy,
Does anyone have any experience with using Media3 for CF 10 in the cloud? If
so, would love to get some feedback about their service from someone who
actually uses them. Thanks! Rick
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How can I determine what causes a coldfusion 8 page to be fast loading
sometimes and other times, extremely slow? The server seems to have enough
memory and the traffic is not high. The db query part of the page is fast
according to Fusion Reactor. I don't see any leads in the Fusion Reactor
Is anyone using Amazon's Coldfusion 10 AMI? If so, how are you liking it? Can I
load balance between instances within the one AMI? Thanks! Rick
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We have 4 different websites running on CF8 Enterprise. Each website has 2
instances that are load balanced. Thus there are 8 instances on the CF8
Enterprise dedicated server which has 16 gb of memory.
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I want to pull pages for individuals from Wikipedia and insert them
into a
website. Has someone come up with a way to do this with Coldfusion?
Thanks
Thanks Ray. Has someone come up with a parser of the content that formats it
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I want to pull pages for individuals from Wikipedia and insert them into a
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Client variables being stored in registry?
Paul
On 03/10/2012, at 8:32 AM, Richard Steele r...@photoeye.com wrote:
We have a problem with one of our CF8 Enterprise instances. Almost
daily, it hogs the entire cpu of the server and the service has to be
restarted. Over 2.5 gb
Client variables being stored in registry?
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We have a problem with one of our CF8 Enterprise instances. Almost daily, it
hogs the entire cpu of the server and the service has to be restarted. Over
2.5 gb of memory is dedicated to this instance. It reaches that ceiling within
several hours of use. Perhaps garbage collection can't keep
Are you logging long-running requests?
How do we log these?
Any requests hanging?
All requests start to hang at 97% cpu usage.
Can you correlate the memory/cpu spike with site traffic or spiders?
We think it may be spider related.
Like Wil said, it's probably the code in a certain request /
Perhaps code is the issue. Perhaps a custom tag is the issue. Details
are needed before anyone can give any sort of reasonable answer.
It's always on the same instance of a multi-instance, load-balanced cf8 server.
How much traffic is the site getting? requests/second?
We get about 6,000
look at the request activity graph and activity logs to see what was
running at the time the issue occurred.
Again, F-R can't be viewed during this time as 97% cpu hog prevents anything
from working.
Have you setup crash protection to kill long running requests?
We had set this up before, but
Thanks to everyone for their thoughts on this. Very good advise and ideas here!
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Today we had Google + 3 or 4 other spiders hammering our multi-instance server
at the same time. Is there a way to control these bots to prevent them from
submitting request after request? How do most high traffic servers handle this?
Thanks!
We offer a template-based, self-administered solution for hosting websites and
have a CF8 Enterprise server with two load-balanced. Yesterday, for the first
time in 6 years of offering hosting services, we had a bizarre user login
problem event. A user logged into to administer their hosted
We host websites using a content management system we developed in CF8 and
would like to detect whenever a user changes anything in their website
template. If changed, code would run that would delete their cached pages.
Changes are recorded in a SQL Server db. There are 12 different tables
We can't get imageGeEXIFMetaData (or its counterpart imageGeIPTCMetaData) to
work properly in CF8.
ImageGeEXIFMetaData does return jpg metadata if the file is NOT Saved for Web
in Photoshop CS4.
However, if the file is Saved for Web, no metadata is returned, even if
METADATA is set to ALL
We've been getting these Missing Huffman code table entry error on write
calls with cfimage for certain jpgs:
javax.imageio.IIOException: Missing Huffman code table entry at
com.sun.imageio.plugins.jpeg.JPEGImageWriter.writeImage(Native Method) at
Thank you, while we've kept up with the cumulative updates, this hot fix was
evidently not part of those updates. We'll get that done and report back if
this is still a problem. Richard
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Ok for all of those following this thread, we resolved our hanging instance
problem!
It was an Efflare imageCR3 service (an image tag alternative to cfimage), that
was getting hung. As a result, it caused any pages that called the tag to hang.
Restarting that service solved the problem.
Yes, we use Fusion Reactor and can view the vitals including which threads are
hung (essentially all threads). Other vitals don't point to anything suspect.
However today, we had a different problem. Only one instance hung and it was a
CPU problem. The entire server memory was being used by
Right, couldn't even get there as the mouse was not responding since the cpu
was at 100%. Was only barely able to restart the service.
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Thanks for the info. Java Garbage Collection seems to be working fine as
always. Rebooting the services doesn't free the network sockets and it
continues to be a problem until the server is rebooted.
1. Use Java Garbage Collection
Modify the JVM.CONFIG file and and append the following
We're starting to get CF8 Enterprise hung instances every 3=4 days or so at
different times. For no apparent reason, requests don't complete on two load
balanced instances. Restarting both instances does not help. The instances
become hung again very quickly. Restarting IIS for these instances
Does the CF8 CFImage tag support ICC sRGB color profiles or does it strip the
profile out. If it doesn't support it, wouldn't it be crazy for an Adobe
product not to support the web sRGB standard?
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Well I tried J2EE sessions and we are getting the occasional but unacceptable
Session is Invalid error even after changing the web.xml of each instance to
be longer than the session timeout in the application.cfc. It seems that there
may be numerous causes of Session is Invalid in CF8 from
Thanks Peter, that's helpful. Any thoughts about the Session is Invalid
problem? Richard.
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Have you tried enabling J2EE sessions? Is this CF9?
This is CF8 with the most recent service pack.
How easy is it to switch to J2EE sessions? Is there additionally programming
involved?
Many thanks!
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We are dealing with two different applications. For example, there are calls to
an image server from within the application and that image server is cold
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And uncheck either of the other two below it?
Enable Application Variables
Enable Session Variables (when unchecked, CSRF protection)
Nothing needs to be changed in the third party F5 LTM Load Balancer?
Thanks so much!
There are duplicate CFIDES and CFTOKENs session variables when a person uses
IE8 browser. Other browsers seem fine. We can't figure out why duplicates are
being included. So, we are trying to delete those session variables with no
luck.
cfcookie name=CFID expires=now /
cfcookie name=CFTOKEN
Our application works fine in all other browsers tested by over a 1000 users.
One should never be able to plant identical session cookie variables for the
same domain (we confirmed they were the same domain). And if you could, you
surely should be able to delete them. The user that has this
Thanks. We've had 3 people report this problem with IE8.
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We have one server running ColdFusion 8 Enterprise. It has two applications
with each application having two load balanced instances. Both applications are
called within one website.
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Should we be using jsessionids instead? Are there any problems in switching to
them? Thanks so much.
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We're encountering the following issue with some percentage of IE users
(Definitely but not necessarily limited to IE8 8.0.7601.17514 windows 7).
Basically their SESSION is failing the same way it might if they're cookies
were disabled, however, we are able to set cookies manually using
I'm concerned that at some point Adobe will pull the plug on CF as free PHP
continues to grow its user base. I know that there is an open source version of
CF, but I'm not sure if it has Enterprise features such as the ability to
create load balanced multiple instances. What's the general
Sorry, not predicting its imminent death, just was concerned, that's all.
Somehow when I googled it I didn't see any Coldfusion 10 references other than
wish list items (must have misspelled it in the search).
Ok by me if we kill this thread. Sorry!
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That worked! Thank you so much! Is it because both the program Webshot and
ColdFusion were installed under my user account?
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I can run a screen capture program executable from a Windows Server 2008
(32bit) cmd line and it captures a flash website fine. However, when I try this
from cfexecute, it says no flash player is installed. Latest Flash Player has
been installed for IE 8 32 bit. Please advise. Thanks.
I can run a screen capture program executable from a Windows Server
2008 (32bit) cmd line and it captures a flash website fine. However,
when I
try this from cfexecute, it says no flash player is installed.
Latest Flash Player has been installed for IE 8 32 bit. Please advise.
Thanks.
Hmmm... This runs via cfhttp
url=http://www.myserverdev.com/ipi_grabber/get.cfm?w=#xWaitDocTime#s=#lcase(attributes.website)#
result=grabResult /. So the caller is on a different server than the
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I'd appreciate any guidance about sizing instances that are load balanced in
CF8 Enterprise. Right now we have instances that are allocated 1.5 GB of RAM
for each. I want to add memory to our server and am not sure if I should add 2
more instances for a domain and/or give more memory to each
Hi Russ, It's 64 bit windows. Load balancing is between instances (only one
physical server). It's a Xeon L5410 Process which I believe is 4 cores. Each
instance has CF8 Admin set for a max of 10 requests. We definitely want to add
another pair of instances for a new website we are finishing
Hi Russ, It's 64 bit windows. Load balancing is between instances (only one
physical server). It's a Xeon L5410 Process which I believe is 4 cores. Each
instance has CF8 Admin set for a max of 10 requests. We definitely want to add
another pair of instances for a new website we are finishing
Hi Dave, We do have that setup in the load balancer. I've just discovered that
while FusionReactor doesn't show the IP in the main screen (it shows the load
balancer IP instead), it does show it in the header detail screen. Thanks so
much.
How do I handle the following situation?
User clicks a link to a CF page. The page is, for whatever reason, slow to
respond. User becomes impatient and clicks the same link x number of times in
secession hoping to get a response from the server. Now there are x multiple
requests that are
We have thousands of links on our website, so I don't think we can do that. Is
there not some sort of system level way to discard multiple identical clicks
from an individual's IP address?
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tags into the head of each requested page.
Carl
On 6/28/2011 8:58 AM, Richard Steele wrote:
We have thousands of links on our website, so I don't think we can
do that. Is there not some sort of system level way to discard
multiple identical clicks from an individual's IP address
Hmmm... do you have an example of the code to include? I'm worried that it
would mess with other javascript that we use and in particular our
sophisticated light box application where users click forward and back buttons
on images to call the next and previous images, etc.
Yes, for sure in an ideal world. However even though we have CF Enterprise,
we can only have two instances for this particular site due to hardware and
budget constraints. When traffic increases due to some link to the site going
viral (which is unusual), it would be impossible for the
ng-ext-js-3-2-for-building-dynamic-desktop-style-user-interfaces/book
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On 6/28/2011 12:33 PM, Richard Steele wrote:
Yes, for sure in an ideal world. However even though we have CF
Enterprise, we can only have two instances
The best way to predict the future is to help create it
On 6/28/2011 12:33 PM, Richard Steele wrote:
Yes, for sure in an ideal world. However even though we have CF
Enterprise, we can only have two instances for this particular site
due to hardware and budget constraints. When traffic
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Ok, I have a page that loads most of the time. However, occasionally it gives
an error:
Error Executing Database Query.
[Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]Value can not be converted to requested
type.
In verbose debugging the query that fails should be no problem whatsoever and
in fact in
Ok, we have a program that we are running using cfexecute. It requires the
license for that program to be placed in the folder that holds the program that
calls it. Right now, the program doesn't run since cfexecute is the calling
program. In this case, thus I assume I'll need to place the
Ok, we have a program that we are running using cfexecute. It
requires the license for that program to be placed in the folder that
holds the
program that calls it. Right now, the program doesn't run since
cfexecute is the calling program. In this case, thus I assume I'll
need to
The program is a batch screen capture program. Got the cfexecute to work by
putting the license in the jrun folder. So that worked! But now it fails to
load the flash plug-in that accompanies IE 8. It works like a charm if run by
clicking on a batch file that resides in the folder that has
We need to capture the home pages of thousands of websites using a batch file.
We've tried Webshots with mixed success. Can anyone recommend a different
program to try?
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I'm trying to save a text file that has foreign characters.
Here's my code:
cfset xOutput = République
cfheader
charset=utf-8
name=content-disposition
value=attachment; filename=test.txt
#xOutput#
When I open this file up it looks like this:
Râ©publique
How can I retain the proper
I tried this:
cfheader
charset=utf-8
name=content-disposition
value=attachment; filename=#xFileName#
cfcontent
type = text/html; charset=utf-8
reset=true
variable=#ToBinary( ToBase64(xOutput) )#
/
Still no foreign characters.
Hi Alan, closer, but now I get R?publique. Any other ideas would be greatly
appreciated.
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No, I get this:
R?publique
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That odd, it totally worked for me...
http://alan.rotherfamily.net/demos/utf8/
cfprocessingdirective pageencoding=utf-8
cfset xOutput = République
I get RÈpublique when I click your link. not République.
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That's totally it. Apple Chrome, Safari and Firefox show RÈpublique when I
click your link. IE 8 and Firefox PC show République. It shows it this in both
Word 2011 and Text Edit on the Mac. Plain text endcoding is set to Automatic
for Plain Text in Text Edit and utf-8 for html documents.
Meant to say Firefox for the PC. Thanks again.
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If I downsize an image to make thumbs using cfimage, it seems to automatically
oversharpen some of the images. Others seem fine. When I try ImageCR3 from
Efflare and I don't have this issue. Is there a way to prevent cfimage from
automatically sharpen when it downsizes?
Thanks in advance.
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Is there anyway to catch coldfusion programming errors?
cfoutput#999sdflkjsdf;lk#/cfoutput is caught by my error handler.
But cfoutput#alsdk;fjlkj#/cfoutpu
is not.
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I saw a utility to do this once, but have not been able to find it now that I
need it.
Here's what is needed...
http://forums.adobe.com/thread/546788?tstart=0
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Found it! http://www.cflib.org/index.cfm?event=page.udfbyidudfid=760
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How do you get the session ids for each instance? What would the url look like
that targeted a specific instance? Many thanks.
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Well, I'm wondering if I can access the instance using an external, website
address. Our developers don't necessarily have access to logging into the
server.
So, I'm hoping we could do something like this.
http://www.website.com/index.cfm?CFID=x where x is the id of an instance.
How does one refresh application.cfc application variables without restarting
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I've changed the code in application.cfc that creates application variables for
error checking and I need to test it (without restarting coldfusion 8
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Is there an easy way to export SQL query data into a tab delimited or CSV
format? I know I can do this with a loop and variables, but it seems like there
should be an easier way. (my query has 100+ column names!). Thanks in advance.
I'm getting the following error message after a new cf8 server install.
C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war image format is not
supported on this operating system.
It's a windows server 2008 machine.
What might I be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Ok, sorry. I
I'm getting the following error message after a new cf8 server install.
C:\JRun4\servers\cfusion\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war image format is not supported
on this operating system.
It's a windows server 2008 machine.
What might I be doing wrong?
Thanks in advance.
Has anyone been successful in setting up multiple CF websites with separate
domains on an amazon EC2 windows server 2008 machine? I can add multiple
websites in IIS but since there is only one elastic IP address from Amazon, I'm
not sure how to route the traffic from each domain to their
What should the settings be in the webserver configuration tool for coldfusion
8 I'm getting the following error message:
The service is unavailable.
Server Error
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Is there a way to access particular instances that are running on a load
balanced CF8 Enterprise server? If so, how is that done?
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I've successfully installed Filezilla server and it connects to our EC2 Windows
2008 Server 127.0.0.1. However, Our public ip address assigned by Amazon's
elastic ip , works for the website, but not for ftp. I've added Filezilla to
the Windows Firewall exception list. Not sure what else to
I don't understand how the Debugging options with a specific IP Address works.
If I check the Enable Robust Exception information on a production server (we
have no development server) and include only a specific IP Address, our website
still shows the Robust Exception information to ALL
Our error handler captures information about a page not found.
For example, it logs the following:
Referrer:
Query String: id=3273MoreImages=1
Browser/version: Mozilla/5.0 (compatible; YandexBot/3.0;
+http://yandex.com/bots)
How can I tell the actual page that was requested?
Thanks in
Hi, Does anyone have experience (good or bad) with setting up an Amazon EC2
Windows 2008 Server? We had a Gogrid Server that just disappeared one day.
Gogrid had no clue as to why it happened, nor were they willing to
troubleshoot.
Thanks in advance.
Did you find a tutorial on how to set up a Windows 2008 server? There's one
online for a non-windows server, but I haven't found one for a Windows 2008
server.
Also, I know that Amazon has different levels of guarantee for their s3
storage, but it seems like having it backed up to a
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Ok, great. I've got my Windows Server Instance up and running! Now I'm
downloading the CF8 Developer's Edition.
Can I install both CF8 and CF9 Developer's Edition? Our current production
server is CF8, but would like to test our code in CF9 before upgrading.
I'm testing some error checking stuff and don't understand why the
application.cfm doesn't abort before an error is found in a file.
Here's the application.cfm
cfabort
Here's the index.cfm
cftest
When the index.cfm is run, it shows the error information (Unknown tag:
cftest). I would think
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