500 Error when running PHP on IIS
Attempting 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:...
View ArticleColdFusion 11 / RESTful API / IIS URL Rewrite Issues
I 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...
View ArticleVisual Studio Web Reference without Web Service (or direct from WSDL file)
This 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...
View ArticleOdd URL variable behavior in ColdFusion
Ran 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...
View ArticleCFSPREADSHEET action="write" java.lang.NullPointerException error
Came across some odd CFSPREADSHEET behavior in ColdFusion. I was attempting to quickly export a query object to an Excel spreadsheet: ColdFusion kept throwing this strange error:An exception occurred...
View ArticleRDS no longer working in ColdFusion 2016 on IIS
While 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...
View ArticleSQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) Emails Invalid Report Links
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...
View ArticleBranch target offset too large for short null in ColdFusion
When working with complex logic functions in ColdFusion (i.e. lots of code) I've encountered this error numerous timesBranch target offset too large for short null This error essentially means your...
View ArticleColdFusion Sending Page Cache Headers By Default
ColdFusion 11+ will by default send caching headers on every request (i.e cache-control, Pragama: no-cache, etc.) The solution is buried in this Adobe Tracker thread:...
View ArticleWindows 10 Update 1703 BSOD
After the most recent Windows 10 update (1703); my very solid and stable workstation started getting blue screens. Being a windows user for more than twenty years I've come to expect the occasional...
View ArticleColdFusion AES 256 JCE Unlimited Policy Files
While using ColdFusion's Encrypt() function I received this error:The key specified is not a valid key for this encryption: Illegal key size or default parameters. If encryption key size is greater...
View ArticleColdfusion IIS Exception 0xc0000005
One of the ColdFusion 2016 servers that I'm responsible for managing suddenly stopped working after a simple reboot. The hosting environment is Windows based and I found that the ColdFusion...
View ArticleSQL AlwaysOn Availability Group Secondary Replica Disconnects Immediately...
While setting up a SQL AlwaysOn Availability Group I ran into a very interesting problem. I had created the AG while preparing for an upcoming speaking engagement so I'd setup two VMs (Node A and Node...
View ArticleColdFusion Limits - Coldfusion.util.MemorySemaphor
In the course of uploading large files to a ColdFusion server you may encounter this error:coldfusion.util.MemorySemaphore$MemoryUnavailableException: Memory required (XXXXXXXXX bytes) exceeds the...
View ArticleWordpress Update Fails: The update cannot be installed because we will be...
While updating a Wordpress site hosted on a Windows platform (Internet Information Server); I came across this error: The update cannot be installed because we will be unable to copy some files. This...
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