FWIW, I find these errors showing up all the time in pretty much all CF 10/11 servers, and they have never seemed to be at all significant.
We could certainly argue that if they’re NOT significant that they should NOT be appearing, and someone could/should do a bug report for it.
But in the meantime, I’m just saying I’d not sweat it. Just my personal opinion, but I spend my days helping troubleshoot CF servers with folks, and this has never been an issue of concern, not once.
/charlie
Are you accessing the CF admin using CF’s built-in web server (like port 8500), or an external web server like IIS or Apache?
If the latter, the key to getting SSL access for our admin is in how you setup the web server. You should not need to do anything in the server.xml, just to access the CF admin via SSL if using an external web server.
But if you ARE trying to use the built-in web server, there could be somethings amiss, but before digging further here’s a question; do you need to use the built-in web server? What if you setup the external web server to handle the SSL communications, and then pass the request into CF?
/charlie
Currently we are using Coldfusion 9 standard edition for our web application. However recently we are facing performance issues where users are complaining that the system is very slow and they are not able to access at times. When checked we noted that as we have CF 9 standard edition, we do not have server monitoring feature available. Hence we are thinking of upgrading to Enterprise edition. Now here my question is - how many/what changes will be needed in code etc so that applications should be supported on Enterprise edition. Also what is the procedure to upgrade?
Also any hints or pointers to find as what may be causing the slow system performance will be very helpful.
Thanks
Harshal
I am using the internal web server, the Admin works on the non-secure port. Our architects and web developers have determined that we need to use the internal web server, so I have no choice but to get this working. So something must be amiss here.
hi Harshal,
A straight swap from Standard licence to Enterprise licence will not require any code or installation changes and will provide you CFMonitor to help you see where some performance issues are. Note tho CF9 is Adobe end of life so I doubt you will be able to purchase a CF9 Enterprise key.
CF9 might be running Java 6 which is Oracle EOL. You might find some performance gains by using Java 7 and altering CF9 to use that Java. CF9 was supported on Java 7. Note tho Java 7 is EOL in April.
Upgrading to current CF11, the refreshed installer deploys Java 8, may mean some code changes. One would do well the test the application on CF11 before deploy live.
HTH, Carl.
We have a new install windows server 2012 R2 with a new install CF11 standard installed on C drive. Everything is 64bit. The CF administrator site and login works fine. cfm files will not serve up in the default directory, but IIS shows htm files fine. CF administrator runs fine.
Web Server Config tool will only show "None" in the IIS Web Site box. The usual CGI, APS, etc have been installed on IIS. In fact IIS and CF11 have been reinstalled. wsconfig.exe manual run shows no errors.
The problem is that any call to a cfm template results in an error (html pages serve fine):
HTTP Error 500.0 - Internal Server Error
The page cannot be displayed because an internal server error has occurred.
Detailed Error Information:
Module IsapiModule
Notification ExecuteRequestHandler
Handler cfmHandler
Error Code 0x8007007f
Requested URL http://localhost:80/default.cfm
Physical Path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\default.cfm
Can anybody give any suggestions for troubleshooting? No logs seem to show any information that helps.
Perhaps run WSCONFIG as administrator?
Is there a ColdFusion11\config\wsconfig\1 folder present with a DLL log and properties files?
HTH, Carl.
Thank you for your response.
I had tried running wsconfig as admin as suggested elsewhere and it makes no difference. The WSCONFIG GUI "IIS Web Site" box only shows "None" and no other selection. There is no "1" subdirectory of wsconfig. wsconfig folder contains two files...... cfwin32.dll and wsconfig.log . If I temporarily remove those two files, running WSCONFIG does put them back in.
Fixed the problem......... it is not a CF problem alone but and mostly an IIS problem ....
1) remove IIS completely...... including the inetpub directory..... remove .NET Extensibility from server manager under Application Development if inetpub in use error is present... inetpub has to be deleted.
2) reboot
3) reinstall IIS and enable all the usual stuff, ie, CGI, ISAPI, .NET, ASP , WebSocket Protocol, etc under Application Development
4) restart IIS and CF
5) Set Web Server Config to "All"
60 restart IIS and CF
The trick to completely reinstall IIS and that is only done if you can delete the inetpub folder under root drive.
I'm receiving the following error when I try to add a DSN:
The ColdFusion ODBC Server service is not running or has not been installed
In trying to resolve that error, I discovered that other than ColdFusion 10 Application Server, there are literally no ColdFusion services listed -- running, stopped, or otherwise.
1: Is this normal?
2: How do I install, start or register those services? Clearly they're needed.
Hi Eric,
You need the ODBC service installed, in order to use the Datasources. Save the below code in a cfm page and run this. It will create the ODBC services.
<cfscript>
//login using admin
//createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator").login("administrator_password" );
createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator").login("admin");
//instantiate datasource object
myObj = createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.datasource");
</cfscript>
TO Install ODBC Services:
<cfscript>
writeOutput("Installing ODBC Services...<br>");
returnValue = myObj.installODBCservice();
writeOutput("ODBC Services installed");
</cfscript>
Regards,
Anit Kumar
Anit, thanks -- this code errors out.
1: Is that one page, or two? (If I run it as a single page, it errors out.)
2: Do you have any insight as to why the services weren't instantiated on install?
This is a single page code. Remember to change the "admin" to your "ColdFusion Administrator Password". It will work.
<cfscript>
//login using admin
//createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator").login("administrator_password" );
createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator").login("admin");
//instantiate datasource object
myObj = createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.datasource");
</cfscript>
TO Install ODBC Services:
<cfscript>
writeOutput("Installing ODBC Services...<br>");
returnValue = myObj.installODBCservice();
writeOutput("ODBC Services installed");
</cfscript>
You may have to check the install logs for the same.
ERIC SCOLES wrote:
Do you have any insight as to why the services weren't instantiated on install?
Regards,
Anit Kumar
Still erroring out. Is there any special context within which I need to run this?
Install logs...heh....this server was set up about 3 years ago, which is 2 years before I had this job.
Anit said: “Hi Eric, You need the ODBC service installed, in order to use the Datasources.”
Well, to be clear, one does not really “need the ODBC service” to “use” a datasource unless one is adding an ODBC datasource, of course. If you’re using any of the other datasource types (like SQL Server, MySQL, and so on) one does NOT need ODBC installed. I do realize that Eric is saying he got this error in trying to “add a DSN” and so we can presume (and Anit’s comment did) that he must have been adding an ODBC DSN.
But I say the above in case someone else reads this thread and might read more into Anit’s comment than he really meant. ODBC services are optional at install of CF and needed only if one is using an ODBC DSN (sadly, the interface of the installer doesn’t make that clear, so many add it even though they don’t need it).
And indeed, some use ODBC datasources even to connect to DBs like SQL Server, simply because they’ve been “doing it that way” going back to before CF6 when JDBC datasources were added and should have been the default for all going forward unless specifically using ODBC datasources.
(Along those lines, I’ve wondered myself if the Access datasource type in CF6 and above even itself needs ODBC. I think it’s using a JDBC-to-ODBC bridge, just as there is a datasource type for that specifically. Does anyone know if one needs the ODBC service for either of those? It’s not obvious to me, but I’ve just never tested it.)
So with all that said, Eric, do you really need to use an ODBC datasource?
/charlie
You are correct Charlie. You really don't need ODBC service, if you are using other datasource types (like SQL Server, MySQL etc) . My response was, more specific towards Eric's query and scenario. But readers, Charlie explained the ODBC stuff, in pretty detail. So, do go through his thoughts.
Regards,
Anit Kumar
I need to access an MS Access database. So, yes, I do.
The whole error is as follows:
The ColdFusion ODBC Server service is not running or has not been installed. You may also use the "MS Access with Unicode" driver to connect to MS Access datasources.
There are lots of pages linking to slight variations on ways to deal with that issue, but they all assume the ODBC services are installed and running.
Anit -- it looks like this line of code won't run:
createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator").login("password");
I encapsulated it in a try-catch structure and all I got was "This page is temporarily unavailable, ...."
Can you ensure that, the ColdFusion service is running?
If still it doesn't work, then please try the following steps:-
Regards,
Anit Kumar
This is a production webserver, with other CF web applications running on it. So yes, I can be sure the ColdFusion service is running.
The Cold Fusion Administrator ran through a single screen setup that afforded no options -- I still see no other services listed in the Windows Services dialog.