Using Coldfusion

Adobe Coldfusion is a development language that can be used to create dynamic content for your web pages. Coldfusion MX7 and 8  are available on Primus' Virtual Web Hosting Servers

General Coldfusion Support

Primus cannot provide general technical support for Coldfusion. However, there are many good books available covering this topic available from your favourite book seller. If you have specific development/programming requirements, our Web Design team may be able to assist you. See Web Design for more information.

Primus' Coldfusion Support

1. For security purposes, Primus has disabled support for ALL CFFILE tags. Primus has developed secure replacement tags for file management.
   
2. For security reasons the CFCONTENT, CFDIRECTORY and CFOBJECT tags are disabled.
   
3. If you want to use the Java classes to do graphics please request the mapping from Primus to your Virtual Web Server. Just email us at This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it .
   
4. If you are interested in using the <CFAPPLICATION ... CLIENTMANAGEMENT="ON"> support, please contact Primus FIRST . This feature could result in serious performance issues on Primus' server. Note that Cold Fusion is currently configured to retain the information tracked by this tag for 2 days.

Primus' Coldfusion MX Support

1. For security reasons, the following Coldfusion tags and functions are disabled:
   • CFExecute
   • CFRegistry
   • CFObject
   • CreateObject
2. For security reasons, each Coldfusion customer is "Sandboxed" to their home directory. This means that you will only be able to read / write files inside of your home directory.
   
3. If you upload or create files via Coldfusion (ie: by using the CFFILE tag), these files will be owned by the "cfmx" user on the system. The default permissions on these files will prevent you from modifying them directly, but you should still be able to read, copy and delete them. Those files will remained owned by the "cfmx" user for a period of 24 hours at the most, after which they will be "chown'ed" to your userid. If you need immediate write access to those files, you should give them enough permissions using the "mode" attribute of the CFFILE tag (ie: mode=666).