Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Server Administration / January 2007

My coldfusion service crashes intermitantly and when I check the application
logs the error that I see for the time frame is the one below. Does anyone know
where I might begain to solve this? Thanks!
Error Executing Database Query.coldfusion.sql.DatabaseConnectionException:

wondering if anyone would have advice for me on load balancing with coldfusion
either with software or hardware.
our basic set up is NAT through a firewall to local IPs. we don't really have
the option of assigning outward IPs to the webservers.

We would like to mirror our production coldfusion server to our developement server is there a recomended way to do this?

I just recently updated my windows 2003 web server to SP1 and ran a few
hotfixes after that as well since there has been a rise in IIS attacks towards
our website.  After I did this about every 6 hours the site pops up this error.
I've noticed Jrun will exceed 50 Megs of memory ...

We're on an Windows 2003 box with IIS. After the app is inactive for awhile
users will get a 500 error but if they request the same page again, it displays
fine.
We've done a variety of things including setting an IIS keep alive type of

All time functions appear to be based off GMT and not actual system time
adjusted for time zone.  The function #now()# used to show local date/time and
now is off by my location's GMT offset.  I updated JVM (per
http://www.adobe.com/cfusion/knowledgebase/index.cfm?id=d2ab4470) ...

ColdFusion 7 was installed on a server by a former employee some time ago. I,
as his replacement, need to access the Administrator's console, but the
password is lost. Is there a way to change the password without re-installing
ColdFusion on the server?

Next year 2007, the Daylight Saving day (chaning the clocks for spring and
fall) will be changing.  The Spring date will be a month earlier and the fall
date a month later then it has been for years.
How will the Cold Fusion Server for MX 7+ handle this?  Will it use the server

I have followed the instructions given at
http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb07-02.html to apply  the
security hotfix APSB07-02 to my CF7.0.2 standalone server, but when entering:
java -Dtrace.ci=1 -jar wsconfig.jar -upgrade -v

I'm currently evaluating ColdFusion MX7 (it has become Developer) for our
future web application plaform. I have CF on my testing server (win2003) and
Dreamweaver on my workstation. This morning I got 'A License Exception has been
thrown' and checked my ip of my workstation. It ...

I need some tips on increasing the performance of my coldfusion box..
I have a windows 2000 server (running on a dell  pc)
are they any tricks to the configuration to make the server perform at top
form?

Please provide exact steps as to how to Configure Coldfusion MX7 Developer
Version Step by Step to an Apache Server Step by Step. I would be using the
latest Apache Server download, which would be:
apache_2.2.4-win32-x86-no_ssl.msi Please provide this answer ASAP.... Please

Hi All. I've got several CF7 Enterprise servers and would like, within a cfc,
to detect whether or not a CF instance is running on one of the other servers
(other than calling a web page belonging to that server) The instances have
their own service but I'd like to avoid going ...

I am running ColdFusion MX 6.1 on Windows 2003 server.  I am getting "Server
Error - Either the Macromedia application server is unreachable or it does not
have a mapping to process this request." for ColdFusion Administrator and on
website.

Our current support site uses CFM and our support group are looking at using
the Knova product that runs uses JSP. I'm concerned that there is lots of
documentation on the web  that we should be able to share session, etc
variables between CF and Java, but no note to say if i can ...