From time to time, the website needs to be in maintenance mode to perform some actions (with the database and with code). In such cases, I use a simple redirect…
Not all pages are publicly available, sometimes, I have to access the password-protected page from my ESP. I will explain this in this article on the simple-auth-protected (Basic Authorization) page.…
After a recent upgrade of ColdFusion 2016 to ColdFusion 2021 on one of the Linux servers, we noticed strange behavior. The CFHTTP call was sometimes working fine, and sometimes it…
It is not that often to work with XML nowadays (at least – for our clients), but we have such a task from time to time. Today, I was asked…
We’ve got a handful of “old” AWS EC2 instances, running small t2.micro, t2.nano, and t2.small instances. From time to time we have to change the instance type to a larger…
I have written a few words about SSL certificates and modern browsers in my article back in 2020: SSL issues — how to deal with IIS and modern browsers requirements…
We encountered this issue when moving the database from the old server to the new one. Everything looked fine, there was access to tables (select, insert, update, delete) but when…
You may encounter this error in ColdFusion when working with MySQL. It is rather strange: First, let’s talk about the solution. This error occurs due to the MySQL Connector version…
If you still happen to use ColdFusion 2016 and you want to connect it to MySQL 8 (or MariaDB 10), you will receive the following error: It is not telling…
In order to secure assets such as scripts, styles, media on the site, the Content-Security-Policy header is used. It is handy to mitigate data injection attacks and XSS attacks among…