Certificates

Larger Certificates (4096) in ColdFusion 2016 SSL database connections

Hello, I am trying to resolve an issue I’m currently having in CF2016. The issue seems to be connecting to an Informix database using a certificate which is larger (4096). Previously, using the same basic connection parameters to an older system, we had had no issues, but the cert was only 1024 in length. In moving to a different host (in a different data center), I am no longer able to connect to this data source. Same CF insatnce, same […]

Adobe ColdFusion Specialist Certificate Program

Professional certificate program from Adobe for ColdFusion developers. Give your ColdFusion career an edge. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist is a blended learning certificate program, comprising 15+ hours of online videos followed by a day-long, hands-on workshop. Designed for ColdFusion professionals who have basic to advance level proficiency in web designing, HTML and JavaScript. Badge & certificate from Adobe upon successful completion of assessment. Adobe ColdFusion Specialist is co-located at ColdFusion Summit and would be held at The Mirage, Las Vegas on […]

Installing an SSL Certificate into ColdFusion’s Trust Store

My experience in converting a .p12 certificate into an X.509 certificate and importing it into the ColdFusion keystore.

Upgrade JDK version ColdFusion Server Updated

Upgrade JDK version ColdFusion Server Updated

Learning about CFML: Resources & Ideas

I’ve been a CFML developer for a long time, as have a lot of you. But everyone can always learn something new. There’s also a new generation of devs hungry for resources to learn about CMFL, figure out how to move over their existing knowledge, or just get certified as they search for their first ColdFusion position. I get a lot of questions about where to go for CFML knowledge, so I thought I might compile a few things here, […]

Issue with ColdFusion 2018 and LDAPS connection via CFLDAP

I am attempting to migrate a CF10 application to CF2018 that uses a CFLDAP call to an Active Directory server and is experiencing failures. We have already used keytool to import the AD server certificate and verified via keytool -list. In addition, we can telnet to <ip address>:636 and connect via openssl s_client -connect <ip address>:636. We use security: CFSSL_BASIC, port 636, and are getting this error on the LDAP call: Detail: One or more of the required attributes may […]

Configuring TLS/SSL and Authentication for Elasticsearch in Performance Monitoring Toolset

ColdFusion Performance Monitoring Toolset uses Elasticsearch 5.6.16 as data store. As vital information about servers are collected and stored in datastore, we need an end to end encryption. Therefore, if you want to configure TLS/SSL and authentication for Elasticsearch, you must make some changes in the following: Elasticsearch Performance Monitoring Toolset JVM 1. Elasticsearch changes Download and install x-pack plugin. Run elasticsearch-plugin install x-pack by navigating to ColdFusion2021PerformanceMonitoringToolset/datastore/bin in terminal. Generate certificates by using certgen in ES. Run certgen at […]

Adobe CF certification now only US$149, including many hours of training

If you may not have heard the news or noticed it on the Adobe CF Certification page, the price is now listed as only US$149. If you’ve not seen or heard anything about the “new” CF certification, it is greatly improved over the one from several years ago (which was just an exam). The new certification process entails about 20 hours of 50+ recorded videos and exam prep materials, in addition to the exam. It was first rolled out at […]

Java Keystore – CFHTTP / JSON

Cannot send JSON to server due to communication issues – I believe it the Java security certificate

cfhttp connection failure when calling https url’s

This is one of the most common error when it comes to make calls to https url’s with <cfhttp. A lot of articles are out there explaining how to install SSL certificate with keytool. But again its not very easy for everyone to understand.  Best way to do it is using certman (CF admin) plugin, which was available on https://certman.riaforge.org/ but since its been taken down it was no where to be found. I recently found it in https://github.com/cfmaniac GIT repo […]

ColdFusion Certification is online now!!!

Can’t step outside? Still want to polish up your skills? We heard you and we made it happen! Now you can master the major features from Adobe ColdFusion’s latest release from right where you are, because Adobe Certified Professional: Adobe ColdFusion is now online! This industry-led certification program from Adobe comes with 50+ online videos and is specially designed to fit every coder, with both basic and advanced level proficiency in any computer language. Upon completing the program, you will […]