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    1. Install and configure ColdFusion User Guide
      1. ColdFusion server profiles
        1. Install ColdFusion- Zip Installer
        2. Install ColdFusion- GUI Installer
        3. Install ColdFusion Server Lockdown guide
      3. Configure your system
        1. About Named User Licensing and Feature Restricted Licensing in ColdFusion
        2. Glossary of terms in ColdFusion licensing and activation
        3. Named User License (NUL) in ColdFusion
        4. Feature Restricted Licensing (FRL)- Isolated in ColdFusion
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        8. ColdFusion Licensing and Activation in ColdFusion (2023 release) and earlier
        1. Install the server configuration
        2. Install the JEE configuration
        3. Run ColdFusion on Docker
      6. Install integrated technologies
    3. Configure ColdFusion
      1. JVM arguments in 2023 and 2021 updates of ColdFusion
      2. JVM arguments in ColdFusion (2025 release)
      3. CFSetup configuration tool
      4. Command Line Interface (CLI)
      5. Central Config Server (CCS) in ColdFusion
      6. Administer ColdFusion
      7. Use the ColdFusion administrator
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      12. Use multiple server instances
      13. ColdFusion Administrator API Reference

    New in ColdFusion (2025 release) Update 1

    JVM argument

    Default

    Description

    -Dcoldfusion.pdfg.connectionTimeout

    The value is in milliseconds. This is the timeout value that will be set for PDF conversion. If a conversion takes longer than the mentioned value, it will be timed out, and an exception will be thrown.

    New in ColdFusion (2025 release)

    JVM argument

    Default

    Description

    If true, the flag prevents ColdFusion from dynamically compiling CFML code into Java bytecode at runtime.

    -Dcoldfusion.datasource.blocked.properties
    • allowLoadLocalInfile
    • allowUrlInLocalInfile
    • autoDeserialize

    The connection strings mentioned are blocked if a new database is added. To allow their usage in the database, remove them from the property.

    -Dcoldfusion.compiler.block.bytecode

    False

    If true, the flag prevents ColdFusion from executing pre-compiled CFML code (Java bytecode) at runtime.

    Other flags in ColdFusion (2025 release)

    JVM argument

    Default

    Description

    -Dcoldfusion.encryption.useCFMX_COMPATAsDefault

    True

    This property is removed.

    -Dcoldfusion.searchimplicitscopes

    True

    This property is removed.

    -Dcfdocument.metahttpequivrefresh.localfile

    True

    Impacts how the <cfdocument> tag handles the meta refresh directive when generating PDFs from local files.

    -Djdk.lang.Process.allowAmbiguousCommands

    False

    Related to how Java allows ambiguous command-line parsing on Windows.

    -Dcoldfusion.sessioncookie.httponly

    False

    Determines if session cookies must be restricted from client-side JavaScript access.

    -Dcoldfusion.xml.allowPathCharacters

    True

    Controls whether XML parsing allows file paths (such as slashes /, backslashes \, or colons :) in in element names, attributes, or values.

    -Duser.timezone=<timezone>.

     

    If you want UTC timezone, use -Duser.timezone=GMT

    Sets the time zone of the ColdFusion host.

    -Dfile.encoding

    UTF-8

    Sets the encoding of ColdFusion files, eg, .cfc or .cfm.

    -Dcoldfusion.monitoring.id.reset

    True

    Controls whether monitoring ID used by ColdFusion’s Performance Monitoring Toolset (PMT) must be reset when the server starts.

    -Dcoldfusion.number.allowdotsuffix

    False

    If set to false, an operand that has a trailing dot, is evaluated as a string.

    -Djdk.tls.client.protocols

    TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3

    Specifies the TLS protocols that is used by TLS/SSL clients when establishing secure connections.

    -Dhttps.protocols

    TLSv1.2,TLSv1.3

    Specifies the TLS protocols that is used by HTTPS connections in ColdFusion.

    -Dcoldfusion.sftp.enable-ssh-rsa

    False

    Set the flag to True to enable the ssh-rsa algorithm.

    -Dcoldfusion.sftp.fingerprint

    SHA256

    Set the flag to md5, for example, to enforce SFTP connections using the md5 algorithm.

    -Dcoldfusion.application.orderby.caseinsensitive

    True

    Determines if string columns are being ordered by the Order By clause like traditional databases.

    -Dcoldfusion.jdbc.mysql.datetime.str

    True

    If set to True, converts MySQL datetime objects to strings.

    -Dcoldfusion.jdbc.mssql.multi_resultset.supported

    True

    Controls the resultset parsing behavior for ResultSets.

    -Dorg.osgi.framework.bootdelegation

    com.singularity.*

    Enables scheduled tasks to run in a Docker image.

    -Dcoldfusion.orderedstruct.size

    32

    Sets the size of ordered structs.

    -Dcoldfusion.http.usepooling

    True

    Controls whether HTTP connections should be pooled and reused when making outbound HTTP requests from ColdFusion.

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