Adobe ColdFusion Learn & Support

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Get help installing ColdFusion. Download the product from the ColdFusion Downloads page.

Learn how to resolve many ColdFusion installation issues.

Yes. You can download a 30-day free trial of ColdFusion. You need to sign in with an Adobe ID and password to download a trial. For help, see Download and install non-Creative Cloud trial apps.

ColdFusion Express is a new deployment option for ColdFusion (2018 release). It allows you to quickly set up a development instance of ColdFusion without running a full installer. See Installing ColdFusion Express.

At the end of the 30-day trial period, the Trial edition of ColdFusion automatically becomes the Developer edition, a free, full-featured server for development use only. If you want to build and deploy applications, purchase either ColdFusion Standard or Enterprise edition. Learn more about the different editions of ColdFusion and purchasing options.

Learn some basic troubleshooting tests to help you resolve issues.

Learn how to use the ColdFusion Administrator to adjust settings and services, change passwords, and other administrative tasks.

Learn how to set up ColdFusion to use the Debugger.

Get information on data source management.

See Developing Applications Help.

ColdFusion Builder is an IDE that lets you develop and deploy mobile applications. Learn more in this ColdFusion Builder FAQ.

See Using ColdFusion Builder.

See Mobile Application Development.

Learn how to create and publish REST (Representational State Transfer) services.

Get help with CFML tags, functions, reserved variables, and more in the CFML user guide. You can also find information in this CFML programming language guide.

Get a complete list of CFML tags and functions.

Get information about the parameters and usage of the serializeJSON and deserializeJSON functions.

Learn how to use dynamic, multidimensional arrays and structures.

Find the latest updates to ColdFusion (2016 release), along with information on what each update includes and the release date. For other updates, see the ColdFusion Updates page.

Compare ColdFusion Standard (2018 release) to previous versions of ColdFusion Standard. Or, compare ColdFusion Enterprise (2018 release) to previous versions of ColdFusion Enterprise.

Find documentation for ColdFusion 11 and previous versions in this archive.

Learn how to uninstall the latest update if you run into problems.