Watch this 4-part series of webinars on troubleshooting CF with FusionReactor

Need to troubleshoot CF problems? Here’s a set of webinars I’ve done recently that will help you start solving problems today.

AMEX Express Checkout Implementation

Has anyone implemented AMEX Express Checkout in CF? I am looking for a tutorial or code to get started. Thanks

Windows CF users: do you find CF missing from the Start menu?

Are you a ColdFusion admin running on Windows? Do you wish CF’s installer would offer an option to modify the Windows Start menu to show Adobe>CF menu items for “all users”, not just to the installing user? Vote for this Adobe feature request.

CF 2018 Performance Monitoring Toolset access through browser

Installed PMT want to access it outside of localhost

Why you should limit password length

Allowing long passwords is good but could also be used as an attack vector

ColdFusion and Java 8 and Java 11 Updates

As many of you are aware Oracle has changed their licensing for Java 1.8 and making it a pay to play for all commercial purposes. Here’s a link to the licensing announcement. I’m not a lawyer and I’m not going to pretend that I understand these licensing agreements. But Oracle and Adobe (or their lawyers I presume) do understand these and as such there are changes to note. On January 24th Adobe announced that Adobe will maintain support. via a […]

CF2016/2018 Datasource SSL configuration

Hello, When trying to pass EncryptionMethod=SSL in datasource conenction string, we are getting the below errors: 1- ValidateCertificate=false: “Connection verification failed for data source: CDXTEST java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]SSL handshake failed: Unknown named group ID: 29 The root cause was that: java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]SSL handshake failed: Unknown named group ID: 29” 2- ValidateCertificate=true: “Connection verification failed for data source: CDXTEST java.sql.SQLNonTransientConnectionException: [Macromedia][SQLServer JDBC Driver]SSL handshake failed: sun.security.validator.ValidatorException: PKIX path building failed: sun.security.provider.certpath.SunCertPathBuilderException: unable to find valid certification path to requested […]

Running the CF 2018 PMT? Have you manually applied the recent update to it?

If you have not done the needed manual update to the PMT, you are missing out on important bug fixes and feature enhancements.

Anyone else experiencing performance issues over CF2018/Apache

Hi community! Our team has been using ColdFusion at least since CF7MX and probably even prior to that. We’re currently migrating from CF10 to CF2018. Our configuration is simple: Linux, Apache, ColdFusion and Oracle (LACFO? No? Well, I tried). Over the years this configuration has served us well, and even though we had to do a bit of research and configuration when migrating to CF10 we never had really bad performance. With the new servers we got however we’re seeing […]

StructCount vs StructIsEmpty

StructCount vs StructIsEmpty performance

Adobe ColdFusion usage survey

Hello, everyone! Here is a short ColdFusion usage survey from Adobe. The information gathered from this survey is very important for us and will help determine some of the usage patterns of the product. Here is the link again. Thank you for your time.

Having problems applying a CF update? What to check, and how to recover!

Are you finding problems after applying a CF update? The explanation may be someplace you’re not even looking: the update’s “install log”. And the resolution may be just minutes away!