When I try to access a page that is not found, Coldfusion 10 provides this error page instead of redirecting to our 404 Page Not Found page. How can I get Coldfusion to redirect to our Page Not Found page instead of providing this error message?
At he point at which the error is thrown the web server is not actually in control of the request. It is waiting for CF to "hand back" the request as string buffer - content to serve.
That means there is an additional step in CF to handle missing templates. You can set (as Adam has said) the missing template handler in the CF admin - or if you are using an Application.cfc you can use the function onMissingTemplate() to do whatever you think is appropriate for a missing cfm page.
Since the request was made for a .cfm page Coldfusion is expected to handle the request, since the file is not found then Coldfusion triggers the standard 404 error. You can do 1 of 2 things:
Set up a 404 template on the Coldfusion administrator, as Mark A Kruger suggested.
Set up the Application.cfc to handle the request by using the onMissingTemplate() function. Here is more documentation on that: http://bit.ly/17k4Ry8
NOTE: You can set up your onMissingTemplate() function to redirect to the actual 404 template, since it sounds like you already have one. This would be considered a Soft 404 to the crawlers.
Good Luck!
Thanks -Al
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I'm trying to investigate the issue as I mentioned in the subject.
I login to the application and successfully able to land on the home page of my application through my JMeter code.
When I click on "user details" tab , I should be redirected 2 times.
Successfully able to redirect for the first time. For the second redirection I'm getting 500 error code instead of 302 again.
URL for "User details" is a plain URL, doesn't come with any need of correlation.
I have cookie manager with "standard"( tried all other options also on cookie manager)
I see that - cookie value SameSite=None; is also seen at request body along with other values only during the reply of my script(I do not see this in the recorded traffic/even if I cross verify using fiddler).
Would like to know if this can be a problematic. If so how can I remove this.
Try playing with Redirect Automatically and Follow Redirects boxes in the HTTP Request sampler
if it doesn't help - be aware that you can extract the redirect URL from the Location header using Regular Expression Extractor
If you think that the problem is with the cookie you can enable debug logging for the HTTP Cookie Manager by adding the next line to log4j2.xml file (lives in "bin" folder of your JMeter installation:
<Logger name="org.apache.jmeter.protocol.http.control" level="debug" />
this way you will be able to see what's going on under the hood in jmeter.log file as it might be the case that the cookie is broken somehow (expired, wrong path, etc.)
This is not ColdFusion specific, but the server is ColdFusion 10 on Windows Server.
About once a day I'll get a log file of a string of missingtemplate errors, and I can't figure out if this is a typo somewhere on my part, or a user doing something, or some sort of exploration exploit.
The most recent one from last night doesn't seem like it affects the user, as by following CGI.QUERY_STRING I can see they come to the home page, hit our login_action.cfm page to log in, get into the logged in area and then again following the CGI.QUERY_STRING I can see what pages they were on by the URL variables.
The missing template target page argument is always this:
TARGETPAGE /https:/secure.domain.com/index.cfm
Which shows this for path translated and script name
PATH_TRANSLATED D:\web\site\https:\secure.domain.com\index.cfm
SCRIPT_NAME /https:/secure.domain.com/index.cfm
After she logs in I can see by the CGI dump that she is indeed logged in OK
PATH_TRANSLATED D:\web\site\https:\secure.domain.com\user\login\index.cfm
Under the query_string I'll be able to see what pages she's on with ?p=home, ?p=editaccount (URL would be index.cfm?p=home etc.)
I don't believe this is malicious, nothing is exposed to the user as far as error reporting, but nonetheless I'd like to figure out why / how this happens about once per day on this application, and understand how it does not seem to effect the user on the site yet throws these missingtemplate errors.
You may have a malformed link somewhere in your app.
Look at the referrer of the error page, then inspect that previous page on the client side (as a user).
Also look at the user agent. It could be a browser trying to pre-fetch pages - and I'm assuming one is from a malformed link.
I have an application written in ColdFusion that allows users to log in. My login page is in the root directory in a sub-directory called "login". During the login process, the system checks the username and password against my database, and assuming they are legit, it sets a Session variable of "Session.LOGIN_ID". At the bottom of my login script, I can print the login_id to the browser without any problem. However, the last part of my login script is to redirect the user to the main home page, which is located in the root directory in a sub-directory called "main", and once in awhile the page fails to load and rather directs the user back to the login screen with a message stating that their session has ended due to inactivity.
I have a Application.cfc file defined in the "main" folder, with a onRequestStart method defined that checks for the Session.LOGIN_ID being defined. If it is not, it redirects the user back to the login page and shows the message that their session has ended due to inactivity.
My question is, why does my session variable not present in the onRequestStart method? It's strange because if I clear my browser cache and login, I'm able to log in without any problem.
Does this make sense to anyone? Any suggestions as to what I could look for that could be causing this problem? I tried to dump the session vars using cfdump var=#session# from within the onRequestStart method and CF throws and error stating that SESSION is undefined.
UPDATE
In response to Adam's request, there are not multiple domains involved. Also, no switching from HTTP to HTTPS. The login page however is not bound by the Application.cfc because the login page is located in my "login" folder. The Application.cfc file is located in the "main" folder, along with the other components of my application. As far as the screen shot of the cfdump, I don't want to offend anyone but I can't really post the screen shot due to the fact that it contains information pertaining the site and I'm not authorized to post such information. I can say that when I try to do a cfdump of the session scope, it DOES show a few items in the list such as cfid, tokenid etc. However the session.login_ID is not present.
UPDATE
Okay, so taking the suggestion from Frank I have the onRequestStart method set up so that it sends me an email with a dump of the session and cgi scope. I found the following. In the Session dump, the cfid is equal to 4830, and the cftoken starts with b8e0d5... However, in the CGI dump, under HTTP_COOKIE, the value says CFID=4609; CFTOKEN=dd15bc0.... Are they supposed to match?
For me, the situation was resolved by enabling J2EE sessions variables from within CF Administrator. See related post here https://forums.adobe.com/thread/1058200
This is a formatted comment in response to, "I just noticed that the items didnt match in the dump and figured I'd mention it in case they SHOULD match".
Whether or not they should match is up to the programmer, not us on StackOverflow. However, you debug this sort of things as follows.
if(actual result == expected result)
output 'yes'
else
output 'no' and the actual result and the expected result
In my application I am using ColdFusion 10. I am not able to send any mail using the cfmail tag.
When I log into the administrator and click on the Undelivered Mail button, it is throwing the following error:
Error retrieving markup for element mailBody : Client verification failure. [Enable debugging by adding 'cfdebug' to your URL parameters to see more information]
Error invoking CFC /CFIDE/administrator/mail/undeliveredmail.cfc : Client verification failure. [Enable debugging by adding 'cfdebug' to your URL parameters to see more information]
Can anyone tell me what is wrong?
It sounds like you have a bad CF installation. The admin should not be throwing errors, this looks like a permissions issue at first glance.
Have you tried setting all the params within the cfmail tag (eg, mailserver, username, pwd) instead of using the values set in CFadmin?
Do you get an error when you create a single CFM page with just a CFMAIL tag in it?
You need to ensure your CF install is up to date with all the hotfixes and that they are installed correctly.
see http://forums.adobe.com/thread/884947
or post the error message you are getting when you use your CFMAIL tag
in coldfusion how to handle 404 error or page not found error, what will be the code to show custom error message in case any requested page is not found.
Thanks,
Yugal
You have a few options:
In IIS or Apache, change the default 404 error handler to point to a cfm file of your choice.
In Application.cfc, set up the onMissingTemplate function to handle requests for .cfm files that are sent to ColdFusion before the web server checks to see if they actually exist.
Dan