The Archives
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05.18.08Serve CFML applications under Apache directory with TomcatIn the comment section, about using Open BlueDragon with Tomcat, one user asked: "How do I get tomcat to serve my cfm pages from under an apache virtual server directory or is that not the right way. In other words how does one set up a virtual server running on port 80 if one has never used tomcat before?" I actually wanted to answer to him directly, but then thought I make it a blog entry on its own, since others might be interested as well. What will follow is my setup with Apache and Tomcat. 1. Have Tomcat running on port ...
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03.27.08Apache htaccess and directive multiviewsNowadays it is common to use a .htaccess file to configure access to directories and also mask URL's that point to internal URL's. Well today, we had to point a URL of http://www.mydomain.com/solution to an internal URL like http://www.mydomain.com/solution.cfm. Actually no big deal, since the .htaccess comes to the rescue. We quickly put a .htaccess together with the simple lines of: RewriteEngine On RewriteRule ^([a-z]+)$ /$1.cfm But alas, it did not work. We always got an error message saying that the URL http://www.mydomain.com/solution could not be found. We thought that the .htaccess file was not working or we had a typo. We even restarted ...
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03.18.08Apple Security Update 2008 - 002Looks like a Update Day from Apple. Apple just released the "Security Update 2008 - 002" for 10.5.2 and I believe 10.4.11. The update addresses some issues with; Apache: Updated to 2.2.8/1.3.41 to address several vulnerabilities FireWall OpenSSH: A remote attacker may be able to execute arbitrary code with elevated privileges PHP: PHP is updated to version 5.2.5/4.4.8 to address multiple vulnerabilities Preview: Saving to encrypted PDF in Preview produces files that may be read without the password and much more... Looks to be quite an important update for your own safety. You can read up on the full release notes here. The update can be obtained ...
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02.09.08Moving Wordpress installation from Windows Server 2003 to LinuxWe just finished moving our blog (the one you are reading now) from Windows Server 2003 to CentOS 5. The switch included a couple of steps, but was rather easy: Install CentOS with Apache, PHP and MySQL. CentOS does install Apache 2.2.3, PHP 5.1.6 and MySQL 5.0.22 by default. Make sure to "yum update" to get the latest stable packages. Make a backup of all your Wordpress database on the original server. To do this we used the excellent "wp-db-backup". Just backup all of your tables and download it to your machine. You will then have a backup.sql file. Create a database ...
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02.04.08Custom 404 pages with ColdFusion 8, MacOS X and the difference with IISFor one of the projects we are working on (news will be revealed very soon) we will need to redirect a clean URL like "http://www.mydomain.com/mybox" to a certain record. Of course, our first thought was that it is easy to create a custom 404 page, add this to the web server configuration, get the query_string and do some stuff with it. Easy right? Well, in our findings we see that Apache 2.2.6 gives us a empty query_string, where as IIS on Windows Server 2003 returns a nicely formated query_string in the form of "404;http://www.mydomain.com:80/mybox". Needles to say, that this posts a challenge ...
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10.04.07ColdFusion cftree and GZip compressionWeb-Developers always try to find a way to speed up the application and especially with the new ColdFusion 8 and all its Ajax functionality, if used in full can weight in at around 500k, we try to do "everything" to get better performances. That said, we lately investigated the use of Gzip compression on the server. Actually the installation and usage is quite simple and indeed works quite well. Unless... Unless you want to use cftree as a HTML/Ajax variant. If you try to get your cftree code running you will not see any errors, all you will see is a blank ...
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06.18.07Configuring Apache, ColdFusion and virtual hosts for MacOS XQuite a lot of people are asking me how to get a development setup running for MacOS X. With this post I hope to help all those that asked and others as well. Let's us start off to get all the needed files first: ColdFusion Installer (Get Version 7.x from Adobe's website or then Version 8.0 from Adobe Labs) Get Apache 2.2.4 from apache.org (MacOS X internal webserver is Apache 1.3.3) and download the Unix Source. Let's get Apache compiled and configured. Don't worry this won't be very hard to do. Compile and configure Apache 2.2.4 Once you have downloaded the tar file from apache.org switch ...
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11.19.06Running ColdFusion on IIS and have Apache run on port 80 alsoThe other day, I was asked by a customer how one is able to run ColdFusion with IIS and Apache on the same machine with both Webserver listening on port 80. Since this customer has downloaded our free Digital Asset Management solution, I knew his question was aimed at the Oracle HTTP Server (Apache 1.3) and that solving this could also help our own website and customers behind a firewall which would not allow traffic on port 7777 (the default port installation by Oracle HTTP). After some thinking I came to the conclusion that this will only be possible with two ...
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05.14.06When cfforms don’t work on a CF serverI have had this problem for some time now that on our Windows 2003 Server all validations did not work. Meaning the cfform with input and required="yes" did not work at all. I have looked around but could not find a solution up to now. It is even a simple one. If this happens to you too then just do the following steps: Run Remove_ALL_connectors.bat usually located at C:\CFusionMX7\bin\connectors\ to remove all connectors from all websites. Run IIS_connector.bat also found in C:\CFusionMX7\bin\connectors\ which will add all connectors to all websites again. I have done this now and all forms work again. Great.
