Cold Fusion Websites fails

I have site on a Cold Fusion MX Version: 6,1,0,hf45343_611
running on A Windows 2000 server and IIS5 using a Microsoft SQL
2000 Cluster in the backend. When ever the cluster fails over the
websites fail. I then have to restart the 3 Cold Fusion Services
and do an IIS reset. Is there a setting that I can use to avoid
having to reset the services on the webserver?

Hi Upen,
Thanks for your response. It is a 64 bit machine and the setup is also 64 bit.
I would like to mention some points related to my deployment scenario:
We have a Windows server 2008 R2 Standard edition on Server machine.
I have a .net website appliaction deployed and running on this.
One of our third party vendor is developing Cold fusion application.
This Cold fusion application will be integrated in our .net website.
Deployment and configuration of Cold Fusion application and server wil be done by Third Party vendor.
I need to install Cold fusion and give access to Third party.
Issue when I install cold Fusion using default settings, my .net Website does not get loaded.
In Mozila and Chrome Browser I get blank Page with only Background image given in Body tab of page is getting displayed.
In IE Browser Page with background image given in Body tab of plus this text ' <script> src="" 'is getting displayed.
Regards,
Sarfaraj Shaikh

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The app server generally doesn't care so long as it supports
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output will determine the speed between the 2, not how many records
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to perform the same. The percentage of failure seems to change slightly
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Cold fusion hosts

Hi
I know that website hosts that support coldfusion are usually
quite expensive. I have found one called 'godaddy' which provides
coldfusion support for around $6 per month (basic package is $3.99,
with cold fusion support $1.99 extra). Does anyone have any
experience with them? is it a little too cheap to be true??

> I know that website hosts that support coldfusion are
usually quite
> expensive.
> I have found one called 'godaddy' which provides
coldfusion support for
> around
> $6 per month (basic package is $3.99, with cold fusion
support $1.99
> extra).
> Does anyone have any experience with them? is it a
little too cheap to be
> true??
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What's happening with cold fusion?!

first, this very page is throwing js errors in both ie8 and firefox 24.0 , i can't reply to any posts
then, with all this flurry of security breaches on gov websites running cold fusion, do we have a comprehensive white paper showing how to plug all the security holes that were uncovered?

Thanks Carl,
when clicking the reply link on the forum, in ie8 i get:
User Agent: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1;
Trident/4.0; (R1 1.6); .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.04506.30;
.NET4.0C; .NET4.0E; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729;
InfoPath.3)
Timestamp: Mon, 18 Nov 2013 15:26:45 UTC
Message: Not implemented
Line: 1616
Char: 13546
Code: 0
URI:
http://forums.adobe.com/4.5.6/resources/scripts/gen/220b1b06a29f901e1d24252ac800883e.js
and in fireFox:
ReferenceError: $ is not defined
https://www.adobe.com/account/sign-in.adobedotcom.html?returnURL=%2Fcfusion%2Fmembership%2 Findex%2Ecfm%3Floc%3Den%5Fus%26nl%3D1%26ref%3Dlogin
Line 70
ion amariutei | [email protected] | 212-578-1011
From:
Carl Von Stetten <[email protected]>
To:
ion <[email protected]>
Date:
11/18/2013 11:19 AM
Subject:
what's happening with cold fusion?!
Re: what's happening with cold fusion?!
created by Carl Von Stetten in Advanced Techniques - View the full
discussion
Site seems to be working fine for me. As to plugging security holes,
there are two things you need to do:
1. Keep your servers updated with the latest patch(es). If you are
on CF10, use the built-in automatic updater. If on CF8 or CF9, take a
look at David Epler's Unofficial Updater project.
2. Follow the appropriate ColdFusion lockdown guide for the version
you are running.
For CF9:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/coldfusion/pdfs/910
25512-cf9-lockdownguide-wp-ue.pdf
For CF10:
http://www.adobe.com/content/dam/Adobe/en/products/coldfusion/pdfs/cf1
0/cf10-lockdown-guide.pdf
-Carl V.
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Cold Fusion / developer edition

hey guys
sorry to ask you this but it has been hanging over my head
for a long period of time.
I have been unable to get my mind around the concept of "the
developer edition of Cold Fusion". from what i have learnt , i can
use it locally only. Does that mean that i wont be able to transfer
my cold fusion files onto a webhosting that supports ColdFusion??
Am i expected to present "my license to ColdFusion" to my web
provider every time I upload a website onto a webhosting?
Please someone explain to me what happens when i upload my
coldfusion-based website onto a webhosting. Will it stop working or
will my code get corrupted??
Cheers
Maros

Hi Maros
There are a few of things you will need to be aware of when
you move to the
server. First, be sure the mapping on the server is the same
as it is
locally, this especially concerns CFCs. In Dreamweaver if you
drag a CFC
function onto a page Dreamweaver will map the dot path to the
CFC including
the folder your site is in within the ColdFusion8\wwwroot
folder, naturally
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site is directly
in your root folder. Be sure to address this before going
live.
Also, make sure you move your database to the server and set
up the DSN,
using the exact same DSN name you used locally.
Finally, make sure your host supports the same version of CF
as you have
locally as well as the database if you are using MySQL or SQL
Server. If you
are using Access, be sure your host server is a Windows
sever.
Doing this should make for a smooth transition.
Lawrence Cramer *Adobe Community Ace*
Cartweaver.com
ASP, PHP, and ColdFusion Shopping Carts For Dreamweaver

Cold Fusion Site Not Even Requested?

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How not to use Cold Fusion and Java

Overview
This write up is intended to give java developers that are
developing ColdFusion applications some beneficial information:
things that are not documented.
Scenario
The company builds enterprise class web application software
for fortune 500 companies. It had purchased a CF 7 based product,
had and existing proprietary J2EE based product, and needed to
integrate the two while meeting a host of new requirements. These
requirements were based on delivering a better user experience,
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configuration, useablily, decreasing maintenance costs, the ability
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started to create a new framework that integrated the best of each
technologies. Tactically, this meant that we were to build a hybrid
CF and java application: one that used building blocks (decoupled /
cohesive components) that would allow applications to be rapidly
assembled, configured and deployed. This made sense on several
levels, the team was composed of Java and CF developers, the CF
rapid application development was very productive, there is great
functionality delivered in the CF platform and initial performance
tests showed no cause for alarm
The agreed upon design, based on requirements, and analysis
by both the CF and Java staff has us using CF in the presentation
layer, using a CF based MVC, use of CF based web services. The MVC
was deployed using CFC inheritance for model objects and views made
use of CF custom tags. The internals of the application, used a
rules engine, some proprietary java, ORM, and other J2EE
technology. The initial performance of the system was reasonable.
We pushed on with product implementation.
Then it was time to load test the application, and tune it.
Under load the response times were orders of magnitude slower,
sometimes the pages even timed out.
Armed with our profiler, oracle execution plans and we
charged ahead addressing issue after issue. Note that we took
meticulous care in tweaking the active thread pool and ensuring
that our CF setup was tuned for our application. None of the
observations here are a condemnation of the language; rather they
are aspects that, when considered together, not conducive for
building integrated java and CF frameworks that use a structured /
OO programming practices. Further detail can be provided on
request.
CFC inheritance should be avoided - resolution of variable
scope is expensive even if properly declared.
Since CF creates a class per method under the covers call
stacks become very large, especially if used in a loop. This is
nominally exacerbated by CF calls necessary to set up for the
method call (String.toUpper()).
Nesting of loops and if statements should be kept to a
minimum - the conditional for each lookup of logical operator like
LT, GT are synchronized. Under load this results in thread waits.
Jrun has as single thread pool - both http and web service
requests use the same pool. Under load this leads to thread
deadlock. There are work arounds, but they are painful.
Recursion should be avoided - we had a few recursive routines
and these had to be rewritten.
Custom Tags - should be used sparingly - each custom tag
makes a synchronized call to the license server - (This may be
fixed in CF 8)
Summary
In the end we got the performance to reasonable numbers, but
we ended up moving some code to java (Custom Tags) and getting rid
of 'good programming' practices (Inheritance, loops, etc), mandated
proper variable scoping for those things left over. We prototyped a
sans cold fusion implementation and had an order of magnitude
improvement in performance and number of requests served per
second.
The lesson? Use Coldfusion in its sweet spot: make a query,
iterate over the results and format for display. Extensive use of
structure programming techniques or OO CFCs should be avoided: they
will work but under load - but are better as a prototype. Building
frameworks in CF? Think twice, no three times, and, if you must, be
minimalist.
Text

interesting aslbert123,
Not that I doubt you, but could you answer some questions
about your implementation that was so slow:
1.) Did you put your CFCs in the application or server scope?
2.) Were you initializing your CFCs, via CreateObject or
<cfinvoke>, on every request?
3.) Are you sure that you were properly Var'ing every
variable in your methods? (people typically forget about query
names and loop iterator variables)
4.) Could you give examples of how your inheritence was set
up?
5.) For CustomTags, did you call them the old <cf_tag>
way or the newer, better-performing <cfimport> way?
6.) How did you connect CF to Java exactly?
Thanks,
Aaron

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