Installing Add-on installer for ColdFusion

Recently, we saw few queries where, PDFg service manager was not starting, post installation. Installing an Add-on installer resolves the issue often. However, installing an Add-on installer can be a bit tricky sometimes. Let me walk you through the steps involved: Firstly, we recommend that you take a backup of your ColdFusion Installer. Uninstall the Add-on services from Add/Remove Programs panel within the Control Panel. After the uninstallation is complete, ensure that there are no residual files/folders in \ColdFusion2016\cfusion\jetty\. Download the Add–on […]

Understanding various types of memory and tuning in ColdFusion

Memory management is the process of recognizing, when allocated objects are no longer needed, deallocating (freeing) the memory used by such objects, and making it available for subsequent allocations. Since ColdFusion is an application server, ColdFusion requires memory management for effective performance improvement.

Migrating CF Admin settings from ColdFusion 9 or 10 to ColdFusion 11

Since we have been getting lot of calls/queries around migration these days, I thought it would make sense to make a blog post on it. Now, since Migration is a very broad subject we need to keep in mind the Technology, Hardware, Operating System, Settings, Application Server, Web Server, Code compatibility.

Migrating from ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11 can be done by more than 1 way. In this article we will discuss ways on how to migrate from ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11.

There are 2 ways to migrate from ColdFusion 9 to ColdFusion 11

   

Suggested workaround if .Net objects are corrupt or are not working post install

When using .net objects with ColdFusion 11 with cfobjects, it sometimes throws the following error:   This following error occurs when .Net framework is not installed on the server or it is corrupted. We need to install an updated version of .Net framework matching the bitness of server i.e. if the server is 32 bit you would need to install .Net framework of 32 bit and if the server is 64 bit then you would need to install 64 bit […]