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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I need to limited access to the SOLR web application to localost. The server it is running on has both IPv4 and IPv6 and in the jerrty/etc/jetty-ipaccess.xml in this section:<Set name="white"> <Array type="String"> <Item...
Ortus Solutions
ContentBox has always been more than just a CMS, it's the beating heart of Ortus Solutions and the backbone powering our sites and applications. For over 13 years, it has grown alongside ColdBox, constantly adapting to modern development trends. Now, with the arrival of BoxLang, ContentBox is t...
Gregory's Blog
In this article, I will demonstrate how to retrieve page properties using the PageContext object, which is available in ColdFusion and Lucee. This is a much more modern and efficient method than using CGI variables, which are often unreliable. ...
CFchimp
Here is a helpful workspace configuration option(s) that allows you to set the default terminal profile (terminal.integrated.defaultProfile.YOUR_OS) to CommandBox in VSCode terminal. This allows you to launch CommandBox by default when you open a terminal in the workspace. Further, you c...
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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
These tasks have been running nightly without trouble. Then we installed a new SSL cert on IIS 10, and now they all fail. I can run each task from my browser, but if I try to run one from the task scheduler, now it fails. Restarting CF after the new cert does not fix it. ColdFusion serves the man...
Ortus Solutions
August was a month of significant progress for Ortus Solutions and BoxLang. From major releases to educational resources and international events, here are the highlights from the month...
Ortus Solutions
BoxLang 1.5.0 has landed, and it's packed with features that will transform how you build modern applications. This isn't just another incremental update—we've reimagined performance from the ground up, making BoxLang faster, smarter, and more scalable than ever before....
Lucee Blog
(Unsure if dev, dev-support or language...)
After the feedback about the "slow" OOO implementation of Query(), I had a deeper look at cfquery().
The function has 2 parameters, name and result. From my point of view,
Ortus Solutions
For many organizations, ColdFusion has been the backbone of mission-critical applications for years. But running on outdated versions like ColdFusion 9, 11, or 2016 comes with serious risks that can no longer be ignored. Security vulnerabilities, lack of support, and compatibility issues are just th...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello everyoneI have a valid CF 10 license that worked until yesterday.Since this morning, all my reports have been displaying the following message:"Adobe Coldfusion Developer/trial edition. Not for production use."Do you know anything about this?
FusionReactor
The FusionReactor Consultancy Methodology: A Framework for ColdFusion Performance Optimization When your ColdFusion application starts showing signs of performance degradation, the temptation is often to throw monitoring tools at the problem. Install an APM solution, set up some das...
Lucee Blog
This is my suggest: add datatype of property even when the property is not yet valued.
Lucee Blog
I've just filed a PR to fix the Ortus ORM extension with Lucee 6, tho it seems to also fail with just Lucee 5.4 light, anyway the PR should fix all that.
We always test extensions with light to avoid any interdependencies between extensions.
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
i have had 3-4 iis cf sites running for a long time. I went to setup a new iis site. I did not mean this to be a cold fusion site, but when I set it up, it configured it with the cold fusion parameters. My new application is supposed to just be a reverse proxy to point to a Python Windows se...
Ortus Solutions
Continuing our "102 ColdBox Tips and Tricks" series, let's explore a powerful feature introduced in ColdBox 6: the when() method. This method simplifies conditional logic by allowing you to chain execution blocks based on boolean values in a clean and fluent way....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have several templates in their own Application that I run as CF Scheduled Tasks. Each template has the same basic functionality - call a CFC to make a request to an external API via CFHTTP and save the data in the response to the database using SQL Stored Procedures. All of them run fine with ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Good morning, and happy Friday to all! I have been searching, without success, to locate an authoritative document that spells out (in English), the method by which the CORRECT NUMBER of ColdFusion Enterprise licenses is determined. My job is on the acquisitio...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I know there have been questions posted about ColdFusion's Report Builder and talk of "maybe" something coming back in CF 2023 or CF 2025. So far, I have been unable to find anything other than dated questions and comments. I was able to find a copy of - ColdFusion_ReportBuilder_WWEJ.exe, which I...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello Community,Yesterday night, our application (running on ColdFusion 2023) suddenly went down without any warning. The application was not accessible, and all requests were failing. Here's what we tried so far:Checked logs in GCP (Google Cloud ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Using Coldfusion2023 update13 developers edition. When I try to update to either update14 or update15, the Oracle package goes invalid. The package management tool says it is installed, but the Coldfusion engine says that it is not installed and all my Oracle queries fail. I tri...
Ortus Solutions
BoxLang isn't just another programming language, it's a bold leap toward rethinking how we build for the JVM and beyond. But what truly makes BoxLang powerful isn't just the technology. It's the people behind it....
Lucee Blog
We have another RC for Lucee 7 up and ready for testing. There have been additional snapshots since this was published, best to test with them.
Lucee 7 includes all the latest fixes from the 6.2 releases, plus
further
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I am trying to uninstall CF2021, while an active version of CF2023 is running. I have tried uninstall from the command line as administrator and right click uninstall as adminstrator, and it just spins. So far over an hour. Do the CF2023 services need to be stopped to uninstall the previous versi...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I forget what update broke CF Server. The one where if any variable in any scope is passed to a CFC function, but it's not in the CFARGUMENTS at the very start of the function, then CF throws an exception.I have a .cfc, let's call it "myFunction.cfc", where there is a function ...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates an Adobe ColdFusion bug in which nested array iteration causes closed-over variables from being accessible from within a closure.... ...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel demonstrates an Adobe ColdFusion bug in which the CFQuery tag leaks SQL statements to the output buffer....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Scheduler tasks is having issues recognizing "$" in the allowed output paths in pathfilter.json. I was getting warning on server.log and task was not allowed to run:"Attempted to schedule task with unauthorized path: C:/$myPath/**;" After some troubles...
Lucee Blog
I've added a new recipe to docs
Lucee Blog
You won't believe this: after more than a decade, Mango Blog finally has a new version!
For those who remember, Mango Blog was powering so many of our personal blogs back in the early 2010s. It was flexible, and fun to extend. Then... time passed, life happened - a pregnancy, ...
FusionReactor
When it’s time to upgrade your ColdFusion installation, you might want to run the new version alongside your existing setup for testing, gradual migration, or maintaining legacy applications. This approach allows you to test your applications thoroughly before fully committing …
Ortus Solutions
Welcome to the first of 10 FREE tips and tricks in our "102 ColdBox Tips and Tricks" Book! In this post, we'll show you how to easily access system environment variables within your ColdBox configuration files, making your app setup smoother and more flexible!...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I'm moving to a new server running Coldfusion 2025 and have run into an issue when trying to load pages from the server that contain % encoded UTF-8 characters. I get from pages with French characters in a folder/path, e.g.
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
ColdFusion Adminstrator 2023 returns a "Failed to add HTML header" error when I try "Export Server State" in the Package Manager. This happened on Update 14 and continues to happen after Update 15. I made sure (from another thread referring to this error) that "Disable up...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Greetings,I'm having a problem setting up the server portion of the CFBuilder plugin for VS Code. FWIW, I am running CF2023 using CommandBox on my MacBook Air. What I'm trying to do is set up the sever section of the plugin. In the local s...
Ortus Solutions
The BoxLang World Tour continued its journey across the globe, and this time it landed in Japan. On Friday, August 22, Luis Majano, CEO of Ortus Solutions and creator of BoxLang, presented "BoxLang: A New Dynamic JVM Language" to the Japan Java User Group (JJUG).
This event marked another milestone ...
Ortus Solutions
In today's fast-paced technology landscape, businesses need to innovate without inflating costs. Licensing fees, infrastructure demands, and hidden charges can quietly drain budgets, slowing growth and delaying modernization. The BoxLang Pioneer License changes that....
Ortus Solutions
As part of the BoxLang World Tour, our CEO Luis Majano recently had the honor of presenting to the Japan AWS User Group in Tokyo. The session, titled:
Building Dynamic AWS Lambda Applications with BoxLang,
brought together cloud enthusiasts, developers, and architects eager to explore how BoxLang is...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi, we are looking into better XSS (Cross-site scripting) prevention.We have the "Enable Global Script" protection checked in CFAdminWe have modified neo-security.xml to include a regex to remove various unwanted tagsWe have queryparamed all querysWe ar...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello,We are migrating Coldfusion from Centos 7.8 [CF2021] to Ubuntu 22.24 [CF2023].I was wondering what are the best methods to export $CF_2021_DIR/jre/lib/security/cacerts and import them to the new server?Is it the via scripts or can just cacerts file be copied over?
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello, I have installed coldfusion 2025 over docker, i have configure everything and import all settings except for one, CUSTOMTAGS it is not working on any way, see image attached, a fresh export cant be imported back, idk if im doing something wrong but it is not even working...
Gregory's Blog
GalaxieCache is a wickedly fast custom tag that saves generated partial page content as a static page to the file system or RAM. Depending on your usage, GalaxieCache is one of the fastest caching solutions and uses native ColdFusion and Lucee cfinclude's to render the content....
Lucee Blog
Hi everyone,
I have been diving into different programming languages & frameworks & I am trying to figure out the best way to balance learning theory with hands on practice. I started with some basic scripting to understand syntax then moved into building small apps to...
FusionReactor
Over the past few months, we've introduced a series of enhancements to FusionReactor designed to advance observability, simplify troubleshooting, and bring AI-driven capabilities into your workflows. Together, these updates represent a significant step forward in how engineering teams can monitor...
Lucee Blog
<cfscript>
dump(LSCurrencyFormat(-1, 'none', 'de_DE'));
</cfscript>```
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FusionReactor
Last month, our ColdFusion app started acting up again.Memory usage was spiking, error logs were piling up, and every time we thought we'd found the root cause, something else broke. We were doing what every developer has done at some …
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hello all, I'm currently working on a project using ColdFusion 2023, and I need to programmatically apply Sensitivity Labels to Word and Excel files. I'm not sure how to do this, and I also don't know if ColdFusion have any native integration with the Microsoft Information Protection SDK. My goal...
Lucee Blog
So, in my ongoing quest to figure out what was going on with Multi Mode security in my previous post ( Attempting to Update Lucee from 5.4.3....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Hi everyone,I'm working on a small food-related project in ColdFusion where I need to pull menu data from an XML feed. The feed has both restaurant names and menu items mixed into one "keywords" field.Here's a simplified version of the XML:<cfxml variable="menu">&...
Ortus Solutions
One of the most powerful aspects of CBWIRE is how it brings reactivity and interactivity to your BoxLang and CFML applications using a server-driven approach. To understand how it works under the hood, let's walk through a common example: the Counter component from the CBWIRE Int...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Using SendGrid API fails in CF2025: `Error","scheduler-6","08/17/25","13:01:49","","coldfusion.wddx.Base64Encoder$InvalidEncodedStringException: '' Can not decode string "SG". The input string is not base64-encoded.` I did open a bug report:
Lucee Blog
I am trying to convert a simple jar to an OSGi bundle.
project: QR Code generator library
jar is find here:
Lucee Blog
Lucee is now providing up-to-date json definitions of all functions (Full Lucee Docs for VSCode cfmleditor).
This has enabled a nvim plugin that uses these definitions and prov...
Lucee Blog
I've inherited a legacy codebase, and one message that has suddenly popped up is:
Attribute [stoponerror] is not allowed for tag [cfimap]
I can see in the CFDocs that...
Lucee Blog
As wisely suggested this morning by @Roberto_Marzialetti and as @carehart has also been advocating, I have done some hacking on docs and now we lis...
Lucee Blog
As wisely suggested this morning by @Roberto_Marzialetti and as @carehart has also been advocating, I have done some hacking on docs and now we lis...
Lucee Blog
Just added a new recipe for one of the hidden gems in Lucee.
Ortus Solutions
CommandBox is a standalone CLI tool that empowers BoxLang and modern CFML developers with an extensive set of features to streamline development, testing, and deployment. Written in ColdFusion itself, it allows you to extend its capabilities by creating custom commands and applications....
Lucee Blog
One of my favourite little additions with Lucee 6 is being able to pass an exception into a custom throw statement.
For example, if you are doing something in a try catch block, I find myself often wanting to add some additional context to the exception, to be kind to my futur...
Lucee Blog
One of my favourite little additions with Lucee 6 is being able to pass an exception into a custom throw statement.
For example, if you are doing something in a try catch block, I find myself often wanting to add some additional context to the exception, to be kind to my futur...
Ortus Solutions
CommandBox is a standalone CLI tool that empowers BoxLang and modern CFML developers with an extensive set of features to streamline development, testing, and deployment. Written in ColdFusion itself, it allows you to extend its capabilities by creating custom commands and applications....
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel tries to rid himself of unnecessary constraints around the semantics of collection iterators in ColdFusion....
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
On Thursday, the error below began appearing after the last 2023 coldfusion update on my cfindex code that is atleast 10 years old. I found removing the .dot file extension from my extensions list stopped the error from occurring. However, .docx files will not index now. I trie...
Ortus Solutions
BoxLang isn't just a language, it's a movement to reinvent how software is built, scaled, and evolved. The Pioneer License is your chance to join early, shape its future, and modernize without limits.
Available only until December 1st, 2025, set your modernization plan in motion and l...
Lucee Blog
We have published a new stable release, this updates a few libraries and fixed some incompatibilities with Lucee 6.2.
It is unchanged from the last 3.0.1.0-SNAPSHOT.
Version 4.0 the extension is 4.0 for Lucee 7+
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FusionReactor
We've been working hard over the last few weeks to bring you Katie and Katie MCP, a pair of tools to help you manage and integrate your Kubernetes clusters into AI. Using the easily-installed cluster agent and MCP tooling, you …
Lucee Blog
This works on Lucee 5
dump(urldecode("(lebensmittel)&rank.by=id%3A5425152&rows=100&rank.mm=30%"));
On Lucee 6 it throws an error:
Invalid URL encoding in string [(lebensmittel)&rank.by=id%3A5425152&rows=100&rank.mm=30%] on line 3
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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
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Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Our internal vulnerability accessment tool has identified a sever threat (Malware alert) in the coldfusion installation path. We are getting frequent alerts. Just need help from the forum to fix this issue. • Threat: Backdoor:PHP/Dirtelt•...
Ortus Solutions
We're excited to launch a new video series focused on deploying BoxLang Cloud Servers across the three major cloud providers: Amazon Web Services (AWS), Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud Platform (GCP).
This step-by-step series is designed for developers, DevOps engineers, and cloud professionals lo...
CFchimp
I’d like to revisit the CFML Formatter (VSCode extension) that I posted on not too long ago and mention the cfformat-ignore functionality. I had to work on some 15+ year old code today. I won’t say who wrote that code. Cough Me. Cough Embarrassing. Every time I saved a file the CFML Form...
An Architect's View
Most of us who use the Clojure CLI are familiar with the -M (main), -X
(exec), and -T (tool) options, and may have used clojure -X:deps tree at
some point to figure out version conflicts in our dependencies. The :deps
alias can do a lot more, so let's take a look!First off, what is the :deps alias a...
Ortus Solutions
The testing ecosystem at Ortus keeps evolving, and so does TestBox. As BoxLang adoption accelerates, we're proud to announce a major leap forward for the de facto standard in CFML and BoxLang testing.From full native BoxLang support to serverless execution and tighter IDE integration, TestBox i...
Lucee Blog
The latest release breaks Javaloader with Coldbox app
6.2.2.90 works
The Error Occurred in
/var/w...
Lucee Blog
Brad merged a fix from me last night, which addresses the default cache support not working with cfconfig and Lucee 6
Lucee Blog
I can't get the PatternLayout to work. It seems like it just falls back to the Classic layout.
Anyone seen this issue before?
Can anyone demonstrate a working config?
here is what the generated CFConfig.json looks like
"exception": {...
Lucee Blog
I can't get the PatternLayout to work. It seems like it just falls back to the Classic layout.
Anyone seen this issue before?
Can anyone demonstrate a working config?
here is what the generated CFConfig.json looks like
"exception": {...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I'm using Cold Fusion 2016. I know the ODBC DSN works because I can use Excel to connect to the same AS400 DSN using it.As you can see in the screen shot I can also connect via the C:\ColdFusion2016\cfusion\db\slserver54\tools\ivcheckodbc.exe utility.I've tried restartin...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
I have created 2 Javascripts to visualize and hid specific fields. These fields have the properties "hidden" When activating the Java script these fileds become visible, exactly how it should. But when de-activing a Java script the properties of these fields changes ...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
CF 2021 Windows SErver 2022 -- My setting is curring 20 MB i can not change it - i can noty even lower it if i try i get a message that says in admin Important notice about last submissions... BUT it does not give me any notice. If i try to even change 20MB and lower it i get that message. I need...
Adobe ColdFusion Community Blog
Initial Assumptions and Red HerringsThe issue began when an application running on ColdFusion 2023 appeared to stop responding. All signs initially pointed to a .NET or database connection issue. This assumption was made based on the browser developer tools, which show...
Ben Nadel
Ben Nadel reflects on the life and death of Lucy, his beloved dog and faithful companion of thirteen years....
Lucee Blog
The Lucee Team are very happy to announce our latest stable release
This has been a bug fix focussed release including fixes for
Date Handling
Session Handling
Single Mode fixes
Cookies
Cloudflare cookie problems
Contro...
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