Is there a way to launch ColdFusion from the command-line?
I am not talking about launching the CF and related services with the net start command.
I remember doing this in the past. Basically, running CF from the command-line offered two advantages:
You didn't need to keep it as a Service and either have it always launch at boot-up or have to deal with the Services Manager
(more importantly) It echoed back to the screen all kinds of messages, especially error messages, which were helpful when actively developing (because you didn't need to go dig in the ColdFusion log files to find them)
It is possible that I'm mis-remembering and that this hasn't been available since ColdFusion 5.0. Is it at all possible with ColdFusion 9?
Update: Environment: Multi-server configuration with JRun.
Two ways to do this:
In development, add the server to ColdFusion Builder, and all the messages you talk about will show up in the console tab.
Start ColdFusion from the command line. The instructions are slightly different per environment but basically you want to get to bin directory and issue jrun start cfusion or coldfusion start or something similar . Post your environment for more specifics.
Go to C:\JRun\bin and issue jrun start cfusion
In your ColdFusion9/bin Folder you can find stop.bat and start.bat. Executing the latter gives you exactly what you want.
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In previous versions of AEM, certainly in CQ 5.6 and AEM 6.0, it was possible to tail the error logs over HTTP, without connecting to the server over SSH.
For example, I could get the last 1000 lines from the error log of my AEM author instance by calling:
http://localhost:4502/bin/crxde/logs?tail=1000
This seems to no longer be possible in AEM 6.2, this path does not resolve to anything.
Is there another way I could still tail the log over HTTP?
A colleague answered this question for me on a chat so I'm putting it here to make it easier to find in the future.
There's now a neat utility in the OSGi console that allows one to view the logs as well as configure the various loggers. You can find it at http://localhost:4502/system/console/slinglog
The Appender tab provides links to the various log files that can be used to load logs over HTTP.
Here's an example request it makes:
http://localhost:4502/system/console/slinglog/tailer.txt?tail=1000&name=%2Flogs%2Ferror.log
As you can see, both the log file name and the tail parameter can be specified. You can also use grep with both simple phrases and regular expressions.
This is a built-in feature of Apache Sling.
In addition FYI, you can also find the status-slinglogs where you can perform log file downloads in a zip and logger actions in a txt to your local at /system/console/status-slinglogs
http://localhost:4502/system/console/status-slinglogs
and the direct urls for the downloading these zip files are as below
http://localhost:4502/system/console/status-slinglogs.zip
http://localhost:4502/system/console/status-slinglogs/configuration-status-20170126-183246.zip (where as 20170126-183246 is and time stamp)
You should not be looking at log files via CRXDE lite.
log files in 6.2 are project specific - better to open them from a text editor.
see attached screenshot.
Hope this helps!
Regards,
Prince
You can curl the log with e.g.:
curl -u admin:admin 'http://localhost:4502/system/console/slinglog/tailer.txt?tail=4000&name=%2Flogs%2Ferror.log'
where 4000 is the number of lines you want to get.
I recently wrote a tool named "Log Tailer Plus" to solve exactly this problem. It's entirely free/open source - Take a look at a post describing usage here : https://blogs.perficientdigital.com/2019/05/14/introducing-aem-logtailerplus/
TLDR; You can grab an AEM package from here ( https://github.com/prftryan/LogTailerPlus ) install it to your machine, and access via http://localhost:4502/log-tailer-plus (if local) or http://server:port/log-tailer-plus
This tool will allow you to follow any number of logs at once by leveraging the out of the box logging endpoint(/system/console/tailer ) as well as dynamically checking active OSGI Logging Logger configurations. Currently, highlighting is supported, but only for relatively standard logging patterns (it's done via regex).
This is a new release, works on AEM 6.2+. Enjoy
I have a Websphere Application Server v8.0, and my job requires me to change the location of my JDBC data source to different values to test in different environments. I traditionally would do this via the admin console and change the settings via the Resources > JDBC > Data sources section, but I'd like to write a script to change these settings. When I run the admin console, where do the settings get stored? I can run the console vis-a-vis the Servers tab in Eclipse (Rational Application Developer) or by navigating to localhost:9044, but I don't know where the settings are stored - which I'd need to write said script.
Can anybody help me out?
From what I remember of WebSphere Application Server, the settings are ultimately persisted to the file system - however you shouldn't be changing them this way because application server config is a messy and complicated business and by directly changing settings you risk destroying your app server.
I'd recommend checking out this redbook, particularly Chapter 8 which describes how you can configure your app server with scripts. Also I seem to recall plans to display the equivalent scripting commands in the admin console.
If it helps, I had a quick look locally and found a reference to my JDBC data source in "resources.xml" located within the websphere directory at...
<server profile root>\config\cells\<aNodeCell>\nodes\<aNode>\servers\<aServer>
In the past I've used xml config to read values for convenience, but not often to update. Instead I have made use of some of the jython script options available and can echo Jim's response to check out the options there in case there is something that would be a viable alternative.
Edit:
There is another link that may be of interest Configuring data access with wsadmin scripting. I've not used this particular feature of wsadmin myself but it does appear to show promise at first glance.
If you want to write a script, then rather than looking at file system write a proper jython script, which will do your modifications in the similar way as you would do it via console.
To make writing script easier you can use:
Command assistance in the console - the Help portlet on the right shows last invoked command in jython
Script library, which already provides some scripts - Automating data access resource configuration using wsadmin scripting
And basic scripting commands - Configuring data access with wsadmin scripting
I'm trying out MassTransit. I wrote a small console application as showed in documentation (http://docs.masstransit-project.com/en/latest/configuration/quickstart.html).
What I first ran the app, it opened another console windows, and did something that looked like an installation proccess, or some kind of file copy. I remember seeing something done in the windows directory, but it was too fast to read and understand what exactly it did.
I couldn't find any information about it. I tried starting a new .NET project and running the same code - it did not repeat.
Does MassTransit install something on the system at first run? does someone knows what exactly happens on first tun?
Thanks
I've written a post explaining how to get a quick hello world Mass Transit application up and running.
It uses RabbitMQ, but the same principles apply to MSMQ.
http://nodogmablog.bryanhogan.net/2015/04/mass-transit-with-rabbitmq-hello-world/
If you included the call to the method VerifyMsmqConfiguration() as in the quick start, then MassTransit initates any required MSMQ component installation.
The required MSMQ components are Core, LocalStorage, and Multicast.
I am trying to get the debugger (CF extension for Eclipse) working for last few hours. And struck in strange situation.
My settings are listed below
ColdFusion 8
Eclipse 3.4
I set up the RDS & modified the JVM.config settings and verified the connection & debugger, both returns successful in test run. But When i attach a debugger to the site, breakpoints are not hit.
My Eclipse workbench & site virtual directory pointing to the same path. It is in a remote server.
I left Eclipse-CF mapping blank since both pointing the same remote path.
And i am using WYSE thin client emulator.. does it anything to do with this..?
Can someone help me to resolve this problem?
Cheers
If your eclipse configuration is ok, could be that something is not confgured right on server side. Check if Line Debugger Settings > Allow Line Debugging feature is enabled and that Debugger Port (5005) is opened and accessible form client machine.
Articles that should walk you through proper setup:
http://eclipse.sys-con.com/node/382427
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/debugger.html
Also you could try using CF Builder and/or FusionDebug http://www.fusion-debug.com/fd/ .
You do need to specify at least one mapping. Eclipse needs to know what folder in your project maps to the http root. Even if the mapping is / -> /, you need to specify that. The only time you can leave mapping blank is when the CF server is on the same machine as Eclipse.
Does any one know what is the use of Zend's console?
any sample program ?
Console = the shell, or command line. If you have Windows go to Run and enter 'cmd', if you have a Mac open Terminal. Console scripts are useful for long processes or things you want to schedule to occur on a regular basis (the 'cron' RaYell refers to).
For example, I wrote a link checker script for checking links for websites we develop. It's used to help QA sites and check for errors. That command looks something like:
php linkchecker.php http://www.domain.com
The third bit is any arguments that are passed to the script. These can easily be accessed via Zend Console Getopt which is the only stable component of Zend_Console I'm aware of.
More info on Zend Console Getopt - http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.console.getopt.html
There are details of Zend Console itself which are on the developer wiki, but I don't know if this is currently being developed - http://framework.zend.com/wiki/display/ZFPROP/Zend_Console+-+Wil+Sinclair
Zend console allows you to write console apps in PHP. It can be very useful if i.e. you want to run certain actions of your app with CRON.