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Error Message when testing the sql 2005 database data source in Coldfusion
Administrator.  The windows server ODBC connection to the database tests fine.  
However, when I attempt to created the CF data source the error below occurs.
Connection verification failed for data source: ...

On two out of about 40 MySQL data sources in CF 8 admin I'm getting this java
error. On the other data sources, I have the same configuration. I've tried
adding this line to the Connection String box and deleting it from the JDBC
URL. I've also tried unchecking Maintain ...

the title pretty much sums it up.
everything works ok, except once the 30 days had passed, even though a license
was applied, it reverted to developer edition.
has anyone had this happen or know how to fix this?

I have a server with ColdFusion8 and Windows 2003. This has IIS 6.0 installed
and hosts multiple sites with differeny internal IP's. I created an IIS record
entry which refers to a directory containing some .cfm files and a web service
(.cfc) in a subdirectory. When I type in ...

We have a coldfusion server and DB server. As the DB server is out of life
support. We are currently migrating the DB server only. Whatever the changes
(Firewall port, creating database and migrating) on the existing DB server have
been done in the new DB server. When I tried to ...

I have ran into an issue where a scheduled task in CF Admin will say the task
completed successfully but if I login to that specific address it will error
out on that same .cfm page. My concern is that in the past when my developers
have asked me to schedule a task my way of ...

     I upgraded the memory on my server last night and noticed that when I
plugged in a monitor to the system and logged in there is a JRun console window
open.  When I RDP from remote its not there.  Is this normal for MX7 or is it
in a debug mode or something like that?  I am ...

I have a rather robust query that draws from an oracle server.   The page does
not load - and always crashes on a timing error after 60 seconds.   If I
immediately run it again if loads properly within a few seconds.  
If I cut and paste the query to a SQL editor, the query runs ...

I'm still trying to get this answered by Adobe customer support, so I figured
maybe somebody already knows the answer...
I want to switch a server running CF 8 Standard from Windows 2000 to Linux.
Before I begin, I want to find out the CF 8 license implications. Are keys

We are suddenly beginning to see a lot of "session is invalid" messages that
show the <cfapplication> tag as the source of the errors.  As far as I can
tell, nothing has changed.  I didn't make any changes to CFAdmin, nor to the
application.cfm file containing the <cfapplication> ...

Can anyone tell me how I can generate the WSDL for servermonitoring.cfc?  
Unfortunately, I can't generate it by simply pointing to
severmonitoring.cfc?wsdl as AXIS errors result due to the fact that many of the
functions don't specify a return type.  I've read about these issues ...

I've been building a site with a small gallery in a MYSqul database, using PHP
in Dreamweaver CS3.  I'm now wanting to add credit card acceptance (via a
donations page) and I'm thinking of buying Cartweaver to help me out.  I know
Cartweaver supports PHP, besides Coldfusion, but ...

Trying to access the CF server but I?m unable to. Is there any problem with the server? anything was going well. Any hint?
http://127.0.0.1:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

Hi Folks,
I have CF 7 installed on my server, I'd like to install Verity on the same
server, can someone tell me how to do this?
Is the installer in the main CF disk somewhere? I cant seem to find it.

I've been reading Mike Brunt's well documented articles on CF8 clustering...
We've got a firewall, router+load balancer and two web servers running CF MX
7.02 Enterprise. The load balancer is configured to maintain sticky sessions
and handles the fail-over; but (according to the ...