Month: March 2010

1. Open up the services control panel:

Start -> Programs -> Administrative Tools -> Services

2. Find and entry named something like: Coldfusion Application Server

3. Right-Click, select “Stop”

4. Right-Click, select “Start”

To Reset a Lost Administrator Password:

1. Find the the file “neo-security.xml”.

This is in the lib directory of you ColdFusion MX install. For example in Windows it would be something like C:CFusionMXlib and on UNIX /opt/coldfusionmx/lib

2. Change the admin.security.enabled variable to false.
Before:

<var name=’admin.security.enabled’>
<boolean value=’true’/>
</var>

After:

<var name=’admin.security.enabled’>
<boolean value=’false’/>
</var>

3. Restart the ColdFusion process.

4. Access the coldfusion control panel. Depending on how you have it installed, the url should be something like: https://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

5. Change the administrator password and re-enable security.

5.1. In the control panel, scroll the menu down to and expand “Security”
5.2. Select “CF Admin Password”.
5.3. Check “Use a ColdFusion Administrative password”
5.4. Enter new password and confirm
5.5. Click “Submit Changes”