March 26, 2002
Restart RDS after Password Changes
Changing the basic RDS password? You must restart the RDS service once the password has been changed for the change to take effect. (Applies to: ColdFusion 4 or later)
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March 25, 2002
Advanced Security Disables Basic Security
ColdFusion features two security modes - basic and advanced. If advanced security is enabled, basic security is automatically disabled - and this means that the basic logins for the ColdFusion Administrator and RDS will be disabled too. (Applies to: ColdFusion 4 or later)
March 24, 2002
The Logs
If mail logging is enabled to diagnose and troubleshoot problems, two log files may be created, and you should check them both. mail.log will contain any errors returned by the SMTP server, while mailsent.log will contain any errors generated by ColdFusion. (Applies to: ColdFusion All)
March 23, 2002
Unix Specific Log Files
ColdFusion running on Unix boxes (Linux, Solaris, HP-UX) creates two log files specific to that platform. server.stdout contains the standard output of the ColdFusion process (cfserver), and rdsservice.stdout contains the standard output of the RDS process (cfrdsservice). (Applies to: ColdFusion...
March 22, 2002
ColdFusion Only Logical Paths
ColdFusion allows the definition of aliases - logical paths used by the and tags. These aliases are only seen by ColdFusion, and not by your Web server. If you need to use these aliases in HTML (or any other client technology) then you'll need to define them as well in the Web server itself....
March 21, 2002
Specifying JVM Initialization Options
Using a JVM that requires special initialization options? Specify these values as name-value pairs (separated by spaces) in the ColdFusion Administrator. (Applies to: ColdFusion 4.5 or later)
March 20, 2002
Handling Multiple File Uploads
To allow multiple files to be uploaded using a single form, simply create multiple FILE form fields. To handle the server side processing you'll need one tag per uploaded file. But be careful, the CFFILE variables returned by are overwritten for each processed file, so you should probably make a...
March 19, 2002
Performing Cluster Maintenance
Maintenance should never be performed on active members of a cluster. To perform maintenance on a server, temporarily restrict access to it using the cluster management tools - this will force all traffic to the server to be temporarily redirected to other servers in the cluster. (Applies to:...
March 18, 2002
Dynamic Cluster IP Addresses
ClusterCATS dynamically manages IP address (when in active mode). Any dynamic IP addresses used by ClusterCATS must have fully qualified host names in DNS, as well as complete DNS and reverse DNS entries. (Applies to: ColdFusion 5 Enterprise)
March 17, 2002
Cluster Security
To ensure maximum security, configure your ClusterCATS clusters so that the administration is password protected and only available on a port other than port 80. (Applies to: ColdFusion 5 Enterprise)
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