Typically it’s unnecessary to adjust the default SSRS email report settings, but sometimes it’s unavoidable. For instance, in our case we needed to expose the SSRS web portal on a specific URL. We’re using the latest version of SSRS: SQL Server SSRS 2016 I found several references and guides on how to change this via […]
read moreWhile setting up my first ColdFusion 2016 server I came across an interesting problem with RDS. My problem was that I could not get RDS to connect via ColdFusion Builder 3. The error when I would attempt a test connection: Unable to contact RDS Server “[Remote Server]”. This can be caused by incorrect configuration on […]
read moreCame across some odd CFSPREADSHEET behavior in ColdFusion. I was attempting to quickly export a query object to an Excel spreadsheet: <cfset tmpXLSFile = “#getTempDirectory()#data_export.csv”> <cfspreadsheet action=”write” overwrite=”true” filename=”#tmpXLSFile#” query=”exportData”> ColdFusion kept throwing this strange error: An exception occurred while using action=”write” java.lang.NullPointerException Everything seemed ok with my code and my query. After some head […]
read moreRan into another issue (caused by me) with the IIS URL Rewrite module and ColdFusion. A couple of our client applications utilize a REST API written in ColdFusion. It does not use the newly released built-in API in Coldfusion 2016. The REST url’s are made possible by using the IIS URL Rewrite module. The module […]
read moreThis may be documented elsewhere, but I had a hard time finding it so I’m going to write a quick blog entry about it for my reference. I needed to build a Visual Studio 2013 project that had a connection to a Web Service. However the the code would only have access to the web […]
read moreI recently went through a ColdFusion upgrade. We were going from version 8 to version 11. Since we had previously tested the application with ColdFusion 10 we fully expected some hiccups. Most of the trouble encountered was easy to find and fix, however one item really gave me some trouble. Our application has a custom […]
read moreAttempting to get PHP 5.6 running on Windows Server 2012 (IIS 8) I started receiving generic 500 errors. I enabled Failed Request tracing and reviewed the trace. The trace revealed this error: ModuleName FastCgiModule ErrorCode The extended attributes are inconsistent. (0xff) The problem was a missing Visual C++ runtime. Ensure the appropriate VC++ runtime is […]
read moreWhile creating a new ColdFusion server I attempted to change the Windows Service account to a domain service account. I’ve done this on almost every ColdFusion server I’ve ever setup because they typically need access to network resources and it makes it easy to manage the application rights. This time however I was unable to […]
read moreRan across an interesting problem. While setting up a new Windows 2008 R2 erver and website on IIS; I noticed that the site was generating 500 errors when serving static files (images, css, html, etc.) I turned on Failed Request Tracing and noticed that I was getting this logged This configuration section cannot be used […]
read moreWhen running Coldfusion on OSX with RDS enabled you may receive a 404 error when trying to connect your IDE (CF Builder, Homesite, etc.) After reviewing permissions and configuration I found that the issue was Apache checking for the existence of the page prior to attempting to run it. The RDS IDE functions/page does not […]
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