There is a bit of confusion whether to use JRE or JDK with ColdFusion when you want to use an externally installed one. This blog entry clarifies on whether to use jre7 or jdk7. Note:Unless there is a specific reason, it is generally recommended to use the latest patched JRE/JDK of major Java version supported. As of 8th March 2013, for Java 1.7 the latest patched version is Java 1.7 Update 17. The decision on whether JRE or JDK should […]
ColdFusion 10 featured a Hotfix Notification and auto-installation facility from ColdFusion administrator.
This
eases the hassle of manually applying, misplacing the Hotfix files, or
mistakenly applying the HotFixes to wrong versions of ColdFusion.
This can be the trouble shoot reference for any kind of Hotfix installations.
Hotfix Installer documentation and technote contains most of the details. However, if you would like to know more details on how it works or if you are looking for clarifications for doubts that you might have on Hotfix/Update mechanism is available @: More Details on Hotfix Installer
Recent releases of ColdFusion are released only for English and Japanese OSes. However, if your native OS is not in one of these two languages, you can workaround as follows to default to English. On your native OS(Say French OS) install the ColdFusion server product. The installer will guide you through in English. Once it is installed if you try to open administrator it will be blank page. To workaround this stop the server. Then open jvm.config file under <CF_Install_home>cfusionbin […]
Problem Statement: If the username of the machine contains two or more $s in it and if this subdirectory of user-home is the temp directory of your machine(i.e System temp path containing two or more $s in it), then your installation would fail. Example: A system’s username as Admin12$01$ Installation last screen message: “Install failed with some errors, check the Install log for more details” Following are the errors that are result of this issue: Custom Action: …ia.action.PreInstallCheckAction Status: […]
Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 If you are seeing any of the following exceptions while starting the ColdFusion server on RHEL/Mac OS X. Unable to initialise License service: coldfusion.server.ServiceException Unable to initialise Cryptograpic service: java.lang.NullPointerException Unable to initialise Security service: java.lang.ExceptionInInitializerError. Then you should first verify if hostname and localhost are properly set-up or not by opening […]
ColdFusion Builder can be installed from command prompt silently without any user interactions.This helps in automating the installation in your organization and improves productivity. How does it work? All the inputs that are required during installation are pre-filled into a properties file and is provided as input to the installer which takes the values from that. When would you need this silent installer? 1. When you have so many machines to install with ColdFusion Builder and you want […]
ColdFusion 9 Update 2 is an updater to CF 9.0.1 which is a full installer. There is only full installer and updater installer (alpha of changes ) is not there. It can be summed up as: ColdFusion 9 Update 2 = ColdFusion 9 + Update 1 + HotFixes + Security HotFixes – Verity. You can download ColdFusion 9.0.2 from: http://www.adobe.com/support/coldfusion/downloads_updates.html#cf9 As this is a full installer it doesn’t require you to have CF 9 on your machine. This installer can […]
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