Re: $10K CF Enterprise License Doesn't Work
The most probable cause is that you had the CF admin page with the serial number form open in your browser for a long time and the session timed out before you hit submit. If it happens repeatedly I'd...
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I'm not sure I had the admin page open for a long time, but I tried a new browser and BINGO! Jeez, who'd of thought. Thanks, Pete. FYI, The failure was happening in FireFox. Chrome worked.
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Glad you got it working, and good to know that the issue happened in FireFox. Maybe something for the Adobe team to look into if it is reproducible on FireFox.
View ArticleCF 18 - where are they hiding the error logs?
Ok, migrating from CF11 to CF18 ... and with database with unsynched tables ... so I expect errors. With CF1 to CF11 I used application.log to find any errors in AJAX areas (CFCOMPONENT) Hitting bugs...
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FWIW, if you'd googled that error, one of the first results should be a blog post I did, addressing the problem (not new, as the post is from 2014), where indeed I point out how it's a cookie problem...
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There is no change with respect to where CF errors are stored in CF11 vs 2018. If they were showing in the application.log then, they still should be now. Of course, if you have an error handler in...
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I am using exactly the same code that I have ported to a newly minted server running CF18. So, at the risk of sounding argumentative, CF18 is not properly logging fatal errors. Same error handling....
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Sorry, I was not done with my answer, when I got a client call. I hit ctrl-s out of habit, and it saved AND POSTED that reply. Grr. So what I was going to go on to say was that if you're not seeing...
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Re: CF 18 - where are they hiding the error logs?
To address your questions. 1. Newly minted (my words) might be misleading. I installed CF18 over a server running CF11 for years. Single instance, developer edition. With the "same" code (about 6...
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Re: CF 18 - where are they hiding the error logs?
This has turned into an apparent issue with CF18 handling stored procs. I will report it to Adobe but in a nutshell. Two servers - one running CF11, one running CF18. Identical code base. Both...
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Thanks for the note, Charlie. I had Googled the issue but didn't see your article which is weird. I do frequent your blog often. You're one of the many CF stalwarts that have been a tremendous help...
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Well, as for a difference in how SPs work, there is a possible explanation. First, I don't see how all that has to do with what you were concerned about before (of errors not being logged). What...
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I have always used dbvarname. Never an issue. Usually kept CF servers up to date with the latest fixes. Are you saying that by default CF18 has dbvarname switched off? How does one switch it on, I...
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So first, no, it’s not that cf2018 (it’s not cf18) has “dbvarname switched off”. It’s the opposite. Rather than ask you to read again what I wrote, let me try again. What I said was that in released...
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No it's not (helpful). You're being pedantic. "it’s not that cf2018 (it’s not cf18) ". You knew exactly what I meant. CF11 has every update applied except one. CF18 has all updates applied. This has...
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Re: CF 18 - where are they hiding the error logs?
coder1957**, it's unfortunate that you encounter difficulties upon getting started with ColdFusion 2018. My advice is for you to be patient. ColdFusion 2018 is the most mature and most comprehensive...
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Your opinion. Not mine. I know where they are - the same place they've always been. They do not contain any information!
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Re: CF 18 - where are they hiding the error logs?
coder1957** wrote I know where they are - the same place they've always been. They do not contain any information!Do you mean Application.log, Exception.log, ColdFusion-error.log, ColdFusion-out.log,...
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Re: CF 18 - where are they hiding the error logs?
They were all errors in cfcomponent .cfc ...If you read above it says they created browser console errors but no logged errors.As for the cflog, I see its result nowhere.
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Performance Monitoring Toolset on a different server
How does the CF 2018 performance monitoring toolset actually monitor a server when installed on a different box? Is it reading log files or actively reading operations in real time? Also why is it...
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Re: Performance Monitoring Toolset on a different server
This is going to be a pretty vague answer. In general, performance monitoring tools actually get data from collectors on the client. This would fall into the second category. Actually running...
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Just had an idea. Picture this: Comp1.cfc on ColdFusion instance named InstanceOne.Comp2.cfc on ColdFusion instance named InstanceTwo (possibly running on a separate ColdFusion installation on a...
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Nope. Only 1 instance. Totally independent servers. But thanks. Or did I misunderstand you?
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Re: CF 18 - where are they hiding the error logs?
OK. Just wondered whether your CFC's functions are being invoked by HTTP.
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An update. The error was being logged in exception not application as one would expect. Examination of this log file shows the error as being Stored procedures are not allowed. Adobe are examining this...
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Performance Monitoring Toolset keeps crashing
I've been having lots of problems with the Performance Monitoring Toolset since putting my CF2018 Enterprise intranet into production about a month ago. I have the PMT installed on my Test/Dev server...
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From what I've seen online, the combination of Out-Of-Memory and "org.elasticsearch.action.search.SearchPhaseExecutionException: all shards failed" suggests that your installation has too many shards....
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Re: Performance Monitoring Toolset keeps crashing
Thanks, that's helpful. I think I stumbled into this solution (at least temporarily) when I managed to increase the JVM heap size from 2Gb to 4Gb (found I had to use...
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jarviswabi wrote ...I managed to increase the JVM heap size from 2Gb to 4Gb (found I had to use ColdFusion2018PerformanceMonitoringToolset\datastore\bin\elasticsearch-service.bat)I agree with an...
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No, that's where I first tried changing it, but it seems like Elasticsearch wasn't honoring those settings. Kept starting at 2G and never followed the 4G. I found some reference to using the GUI in a...
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Re: Performance Monitoring Toolset keeps crashing
Strange. I changed my settings in jvm.options to -Xms4g-Xmx4g restarted the Windows services for PMT and PMT Datasource Service - and it worked!
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Guys, the difference you see may be based on how you start the PMT and/or datastore, whether as a service (perhaps in BKBK's case) or from the command line (in jarviswabi's case). Can you each...
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Thanks Charlie. I'm actually running the PMT as services (both the main one and the datastore service), but it still did not obey my changes to the jvm.options file. I did confirm that I had...
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Re: Performance Monitoring Toolset keeps crashing
Ah, I missed that you were running the elasticsearch-service.bat. I thought you were running just the elasticsearch.bat. My bad. And as you mention the UI, I assume you mean you passed the manage arg...
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Re: Performance Monitoring Toolset keeps crashing
I looked into this further. The question of the JVM settings for Elasticsearch is more complex than I at first thought. First, let's do away with a logical fallacy. My PMT installation was already...
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2016 cold fusion odbc server DOES NOT START
i was applying the Cold Fusion updates in order from 1 and when I got to 7 the ODBC Server will not start ...... I found one fix that said: "file msvcr100.dll from the backup folder...
View Article"Upgrading" to CF2016 from CF11 - "This web server is already configured by...
Hello, all, Title says it all. Trying to upgrade from CF11 to CF2016, because that's what our production environment will soon be, and running wsconfig after the install gives the error "This web...
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Yes, you do need to remove the CF11 connector for whatever site (or if at the all sites level) you have previously configured to run against cf11. And yes, you would run the CF11 version of the...
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Hi, Charlie. Thanks for your reply. It's been forever since I last installed CF on any system, and this is my very first upgrade, ever. So I'm quite a bit rusty when it comes to this. I took your...
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Re: "Upgrading" to CF2016 from CF11 - "This web server is already configured...
It sounds to me like your upgrade effort was successful, but that you have an old copy of the CF Administrator - which is just a web app really - laying around, and your external web server is pointing...
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Sounds great, Dave. Thanks. Do you know how to do that on Apache? I think I'm using 2.4.2. V/r, ^ _ ^
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In theory, yes, I know how to do that in Apache. In practice, I'll have to give you fairly vague instructions because in my experience Apache differs so much from one place to another - even if it's...
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Re: "Upgrading" to CF2016 from CF11 - "This web server is already configured...
Thanks, Dave! I'm actually running Apache on a Windows system, but think I can figure it out from all the detail you provided. I'll give that a shot and report back on how it went. V/r, ^ _ ^
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Not getting any love on the .conf file. I've done a file and content search in my Apache folder, and there are no documents that contain CFIDE in any of them. V/r, ^ _ ^
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OK, so I realize you feel stuck. The good news is that you are not. First, adding to what Dave helpfully pointed out, note that with the CF2016(or 2018) connector, it would NOT put a CFIDE virtual...
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There might not be one. Honestly, I'd look for .conf files with an Alias directive that points to an "administrator" folder. As a part of configuring IIS servers, for example, I'd normally move the CF...
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Charlie, using the :8500 after the IP address did the trick; I'm now looking at the proper CF2016 CFAdmin login screen. I can try to make it use CF2016 without it, or I can just bookmark it. I've got...
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Why is my CFMServet Service running at an efficient 7.2 million ms?
I don't think this is efficient but we're seeing this more and more over the last year. What is the CFMServlet?Why does it take so long to run at times?Is this a problem ?How do I resolve this?
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Re: Why is my CFMServet Service running at an efficient 7.2 million ms?
Chauncy, the cfmservlet is the process that handles all CF page requests. It's defined as such in CF's \cfusion\wwwroot\WEB-INF\web.xml. I do find it odd that your New Relic trace page here is showing...
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