DickBlog - Not much original comment, but lots of great resources - ColdFusion Admin

HOWTO - Multiple ColdFusion instances on Intel Mac

Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:20:00 +0100

Stephen Collins has a good article on the subjet.

CFMX Supports Apache 2.2 on Unix/Linux

Tue, 23 May 2006 09:12:00 +0100

From Adobe... ColdFusion MX 7.0.1 now supports Apache 2.2. Apache 2.2 requires a separate connector module than Apache 2.0. The web server connector installer (wsconfig.jar build 107948) contains the connector changes required to support Apache 2.2. See http://www.adobe.com/go/29626e93.

Asynchronous CFML Gateway

Fri, 05 May 2006 15:02:00 +0100

Working with Asynchronous CFML Gateway currently and found this entry on Fusion Authority but I learnt most from Damon Cooper's article. Here's another way to do it.

A Case for a Higher Default "Simultaneous Request" Setting

Fri, 05 May 2006 14:56:00 +0100

Mark Kruger has some thoughts on this setting.

Getting Machine and Instance Names in a ColdFusion Cluster

Fri, 28 Apr 2006 08:53:00 +0100

From Will.Chang



machineName = createObject("java", "java.net.InetAddress").localhost.getHostName();
// get this instance name
instanceName   = createObject("java", "jrunx.kernel.JRun").getServerName();


Machine: #machineName#

Instance: #instanceName#

Event Gateway for iChat

Sun, 26 Mar 2006 17:28:00 +0100

An alternative IM bot for talking from CFMX to an admin.

Event Gateways

Thu, 23 Feb 2006 18:03:00 +0100

Rick Root shares his experience of building an Event Gateway.

ColdFusion Peformance Tuning Presentation

Thu, 09 Feb 2006 14:00:00 +0100

Brandon Purcell has a good presentation on how to tune ColdFusion.
Pixl8 of London have recorded a good selection of CFMX Tuning resources.

SMTP Server Authenication

Fri, 06 Jan 2006 12:28:00 +0100

Need to pass the username/password onto the SMTP server for authenication, use:

"username:password@mydomain.com"

.as described here and here.

ColdFusion MX Tuning and Clustering Roundup

Wed, 28 Sep 2005 13:55:00 +0100

Brandon Harper has collected a great set of articles on ColdFusion setup which he has recorded for others.

Accessing the Admin API

Thu, 08 Sep 2005 09:03:00 +0100

Dan Switzer offered a idea to find the CF Mail "Spool Interval" but Andy Allan came back with a neat way to hook into the CF Admin API.

    adminObj = createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.administrator")
    adminObj.login("password")
    myObj = createObject("component","cfide.adminapi.mail")
    spoolInterval = myObj.getMailProperty("spoolInterval")

Securing the Administrator

Thu, 21 Jul 2005 13:53:00 +0100

Steven Erat has recorded some wise words on how to keep your CF Admin secure.

Log files

Fri, 24 Jun 2005 16:09:00 +0100

Mark Krugger has blogged an interesting item on ColdFusion MX 7 log files and their locations.

Updater or Hot Fix?

Wed, 15 Jun 2005 09:19:00 +0100

Seems like Macromedia call the cumulative updater a hot fix. So when looking for latest update for CFMX7, check the ColdFusion hot fixes (MX and higher) page.

Firewalls and wsconfig

Thu, 10 Feb 2005 13:15:00 +0100

We had this prob were I'm working but it sounds like Steven Erat has heard it all before!