Requests getting queued in IIS worker process at ExecuteRequestHandler

For some reason, the requests in one of our app pools started “hanging up” today. The CPU usage is low, as is memory consumption, but requests in a worker are coming in and just getting queued; they are all stuck at state “ExecuteRequestHandler”. We can recycle the pool, and things work for like a minute, … Read more

Can Azure host ColdFusion?

A friend has a site developed in ColdFusion with MySQL and is looking for better cost-effective hosting as the traffic scales up rapidly. Azure comes to mind. I haven’t used Azure myself, however, I believe it is possible to setup and interact with the web-server via RDP into a hosted Virtual Machine? I am curious … Read more

Securing ColdFusion for internet facing server

What do I need to do to tighten down a ColdFusion server for internet facing apps? The only thing that specifically came to mind was to restrict the CFIDE and JRunScripts directories to a local subnet. Are there settings in the administrator I can tweak to make the applications more secure? Answer Make sure you … Read more

Increased CF JVM max heap size and now CF service will not start

So I went in to ColdFusion Administrator and increased my CF JVM max heap size, then I was told I would need to restart the service, so I stopped the service, and then tried to start it again and got the following error message: Windows could not start the ColdFusion 8 Application Server on Local … Read more

Increased CF JVM max heap size and now CF service will not start

So I went in to ColdFusion Administrator and increased my CF JVM max heap size, then I was told I would need to restart the service, so I stopped the service, and then tried to start it again and got the following error message: Windows could not start the ColdFusion 8 Application Server on Local … Read more

Increased CF JVM max heap size and now CF service will not start

So I went in to ColdFusion Administrator and increased my CF JVM max heap size, then I was told I would need to restart the service, so I stopped the service, and then tried to start it again and got the following error message: Windows could not start the ColdFusion 8 Application Server on Local … Read more