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Reset ColdFusion 10 or 11 Administrator Password Manually

Posted by Rose Bush on July 5th, 2016

If you need to reset the ColdFusion Administrator Password for ColdFusion 10 or ColdFusion 11, it is much easier than previous versions.

Windows

From the machine running ColdFusion, browse to cf_root/bin, in this case I am in

or

Right click on

and choose Run as administrator to ensure proper permissions during runtime. Enter 1 to change the password. Enter in the new password, and then re enter it to confirm. If not using RDS, you can leave the entry blank for the next two submissions, otherwise fill the RDS password in on both entries. Restart the ColdFusion Application Server and try to login. You may need to restart your browser to clear any cached session aspects that may cause issues.

Linux

SSH into the machine running ColdFusion. Navigate to cf_root/bin, in this case I am using

or

and run

Enter 1 to change the password. Enter in the new password, and then re enter it to confirm. If not using RDS, you can leave the entry blank for the next two submissions, otherwise fill the RDS password in on both entries. Restart the ColdFusion Application Server and try to login. You may need to restart your browser to clear any cached session aspects that may cause issues.

Installing ColdFusion 11 Under cPanel

Posted by Rose Bush on November 3rd, 2015

First, you need your installation defaults, find the installer.properties example below:

With this file, you can install ColdFusion 11 with the following:

The output in the log file should look something like this:

Chown the CFIDE:

Backup your license.properties:

Add the service:

If the above does not exist, and well hey, it didn’t for me, I did write another article with the file needed.  Check that Article out.

 

sconfig wants the “real” hostname or the connector won’t install.

Turn the listen flag to false in the license.propterties:

Start ColdFusion:

Perform the wsconfig:

In my example, I happened to run the command twice, with varied setups.  I am documenting them both and will clean up at next install:

After the above, my CF11Installer.log added the following:

Performing the wsconfig generated the file I needed to move forward, /usr/local/apache/conf/mod_jk.conf to which the contents are below:

I then distilled the changes to ensure cPanel was copacetic with them, regenerated the conf and restarted apache:

During the last step, I did open for editing /usr/local/apache/conf/httpd.conf twice and /usr/local/apache/conf/mod_jk.conf once before distilling and restarting again.

 

Edit the neo-security.xml and throw in some good defaults.

set rds.security.usesinglerdsp to false

set allowconcurrentadminlogin to false

set admin.userid.required to true

set allowedAdminIPList to 127.0.0.1 and an any others of importance

set secureprofile.enabled to true

 

The admin.userid.root.salt string may need to be updated, idk.

Restart the CF’s

/opt/coldfusion11/cfusion/bin/coldfusion stop
/opt/coldfusion11/cfusion/bin/coldfusion start

ColdFusion 11 init.d script

Posted by Rose Bush on September 28th, 2015

I recently installed ColdFusion 11 on RHEL, but the cfinit script did not exist. I then pulled up a ColdFusion 10 init script, updated the CF10-CF11 bits, corrected the coding error for the CFSTATUS section particular to my OS and have the script below:

I then ensured permissions on the file and made sure it would add to startup correctly:

 

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