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Applying Updates on a Locked down ColdFusion 10 Server
Administrator | Adobe ColdFusion 10 | ColdFusion | General | productivity | Updates
Note: This is valid from Hotfix 9 onwards.
Depending on the user account that you have used to Lock down your server, you might need to consider the following few more steps for providing appropriate permissions to be able to apply the updates from ColdFusion Administrator.
Hotfix needs two things to be installed properly from ColdFusion Administrator.
1)
The user that is configured for ColdFusion Service should be permitted to
Start/Stop the service. More on this to setup is explained below.
2) Since ColdFusion runs with the user you have setup for ColdFusion service, that user should have write/delete/update permissions for some of the ColdFusion directories. Notably, till now (Hotfix 9) the update files are there for the following directories:
<CFHome>\cfusion\bin\ (Write)
<CFHome>\cfusion\hf-updates\ (Write)
<CFHome>\cfusion\lib\ (Write)
<CFHome>\cfusion\lib\updates\ (Write + Delete)
<CFHome>\cfusion\runtime\lib\ (Write)
<CFHome>\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\adminapi\ (Write)
<CFHome>\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\administrator\ (Write)
<CFHome>\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\componentutils\ (Write)
<CFHome>\cfusion\wwwroot\CFIDE\scripts\ (Write)
Note: New directories may or may not get added in the future Hotfixes but the above set will always be there for ColdFusion 10.
If you are running multi-instace scenario you have to set the same for all child instance folders and their service accounts
When lockdown guide is being imposed the above two requirements should also be implemented in order to be able to apply Hotfixes from the ColdFusion administrator.
Setting up the ColdFusion Service user as required in #1:
Down load and Install Windows tool named SubInACL.exe (Installer name is SubInACL.msi) to give service start/stop permissions from
http://www.microsoft.com/en-us/download/confirmation.aspx?id=23510
Once you install it, the tool subinacl.exe gets installed
under
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools
Then, run the tool as follows from command prompt by
replacing <MachineName> and <username> with your username and machine
name.
a) For machine’s local user
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools>subinacl.exe /service "\\<MachineName>\ColdFusion 10 Application Server" /grant=<username>=TO
b) If the user is a Domain user you have to replace <Domainname> as well along with <MachineName>, <username> in the following command.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Windows Resource Kits\Tools>subinacl.exe /service "\\<MachineName>\ColdFusion 10 Application Server" /grant=<Domainname>\<username>=TO
More details on this are explained in the below resource.
http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;288129
This is a one-time setup that you have to do.
Once this is done -> Restart ColdFusion service -> Open ColdFusion server Administrator -> Apply Update -> You should be able to apply the Hotfix successfully now.
ColdFusion - Clarification to David Wadhwani's comment
Adobe ColdFusion | Announcements | productivity | Rapid Application Development
David’s comment on the TechCrunch article about Enterprise developers and backend tools is not targeted at ColdFusion, but towards other products that Adobe announced in 2011.
There has been no reduction in investments in ColdFusion over last few years. We see exciting opportunities driving the future of ColdFusion and we will continue to make investments that the opportunities demand or need.
IDC Whitepaper on Adobe ColdFusion - Turning up the heat with ColdFusion
Adobe ColdFusion | Announcements | productivity | Rapid Application Development | web application development
A new whitepaper from IDC on ColdFusion is now available within the ColdFusion Community Portal (Details of the portal here). The whitepaper from the analyst descirbes the value proposition of ColdFusion, powerful capabilities of the platform, future directions and customer case studies.
Announcing the new ColdFusion Community Portal
Performance | Adobe ColdFusion | Announcements | productivity | Rapid Application Development | web application development
Here's the all new ColdFusion Community portal launched by Adobe : http://coldfusion.adobe.com
The community portal is one centralized access point for information on the latest in ColdFusion. It also provides our partners and consultants to showcase their capabilities and latest innovations with the platform. It is also a User Group hub where ColdFusion developers can find information related to various User Groups and their events.
We are pleased to announce the launch of ColdFusion Community portal with the aim to make it a go-to place for the ColdFusion community. The idea is to integrate ColdFusion content created not just by the product team at Adobe, but also by our partners and you the community. We believe such content will be of immense use to everyone in the ColdFusion community.
Please go through the portal and let us know how we can further improve it. You can send an email with your inputs/comments to Kishore Balakrishnan kishore@adobe.com , Marketing Manager for ColdFusion.
The portal is built using the popular Mura CMS!
ColdFusion 10 update 8 is now available - Java 7 support included
Adobe ColdFusion 10 | Announcements | productivity | web application | web application security
[update: The technote for ColdFusion 10 update 8 now has an update section to reflect the change that was made. The refreshed ColdFusion 10 update 8 contains a fix for the an issue in Google Maps.]
This post is to announce the availability of a new update to ColdFusion 10.
ColdFusion 10 Update 8 includes support for Google Maps JavaScript API v3, Mac OS X Mountain Lion 10.8 and JDK 1.7 Update 15. It includes all the bug fixes from previous updates of ColdFusion 10.
You apply this update using the update mechanism within ColdFusion 10 Administrator.
For more details about the update, refer the link here.