CF Instance Hangs, “too many open files” in Log
Jul/090
This is really quite trivial, but may be of some interest to people who don’t know too much about Linux OS tweaking. Today our dev-server instance was hanging – again. Only this time I took the liberty to make our developers wait a little longer before I restarted it, so I could actually diagnose the issue and resolve it for good. As only one of our two instances was hanging, I took a peek into its logfiles first – but couldn’t find anything out of the ordinary. And the Enterprise Manager reported the instance to be running, too.
ColdFusion 8 and Symlinks – Hell Awaits? (solved)
Jul/093
UPDATE: The issue seems to be fixed with ColdFusion Hotfix hf801-71648 (see technote kb403629). The fix is included in the Cumulative Hot Fix 2 for ColdFusion 8.0.1 (see technote kb403781). My bad – I thought I had deployed the hotfix when all I had in fact done was upload the zip-file instead of the jar. Epic fail. Anyway, the technote is a bit misleading as well – it’s talking about Application.cfm path resolution when the same issue applies to cfinclude, too.
I recently stumbled over an issue when using symbolic links on a couple of ColdFusion applications. I intended to use symlinks to keep duplicate code between different applications to a minimum. I’m running Apache 2.2 with ColdFusion 8.0.1 on 64-bit Debian Etch. Each of our web-applications needs a “connector” while retaining an include with some site-specific config.