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ColdFusion Scheduled Tasks Failing with 403 Forbidden Error (Cloudflare Issue) Mon, 18 Nov 2024 16:12:19 +0000
My company recently experienced an issue where all of the scheduled tasks in CFADMIN were failing. The first step I took to troubleshoot the issue was to check the scheduler.log log file. Each task had 2 lines in the log file. The first line indicated that the task had been triggered. The second line indicated ... Read more
ColdFusion unscoped variables and how to find them (using the new patch) Tue, 09 Apr 2024 14:56:20 +0000
On March 12, 2024 ColdFusion (2021 release) Update 13 introduced a change with significant implications for developers, particularly for developers managing older code that could be “leveraging” a “feature” of ColdFusion whereby ColdFusion would forgivingly “search” through scopes in a specific order if a variable name is not prefixed with a scope identifier. Rather than ... Read more
How to use the Microsoft JDBC Driver for SQL Server in ColdFusion Wed, 20 Dec 2023 14:51:32 +0000
I recently had an issue where the datasources using the Microsoft SQL Server Driver in ColdFusion were failing. The error was: java.sql.SQLException: Timed out trying to establish connection There was no change with the database server. For some reason the driver was just not connecting. This led to an exploration of connecting using JDBC both ... Read more
