Settings page

The Settings page of the ColdFusion MX Administrator contains configuration options that you can set or enable to manage ColdFusion MX. These options can significantly affect server performance. The following table describes the settings:

Setting	Description
Limit simultaneous requests (Server configuration only)	Enter a number to limit simultaneous requests to ColdFusion MX. When the server reaches the limit, requests are queued and handled in the order received. Limiting the number of simultaneous requests can improve performance.
Timeout requests after [n] seconds	Enable this option to prevent unusually lengthy requests from using up server resources. Enter a limit to the time that ColdFusion MX waits before terminating a request. Requests that take longer than the timeout period are terminated.
Use UUID for cftoken	Specify whether to use a universally unique identifier (UUID), rather than a random number, for a cftoken.
Enable HTTP status codes	Select this option to configure ColdFusion MX to set a status code of 500 Internal Server Error for an unhandled error. Disable this option to configure ColdFusion MX to set a status code of 200 OK for everything, including unhandled errors.
Enable Whitespace Management (Server configuration only)	Enable this option to compress runs of spaces, tabs and carriage return/line feeds. Compressing whitespace can significantly compact the output of a ColdFusion page.
Missing Template Handler	Specify a page to execute when ColdFusion MX cannot find a requested page. This specification is relative to the web root. If the user is running Internet Explorer with "Show Friendly HTTP error messages" enabled in advanced settings (the default), Internet Explorer will only display this page if it contains more than 512 bytes.
Site-wide Error Handler	Specify a page to execute when ColdFusion MX encounters an error while processing a request. This specification is relative to the web root. If the user is running Internet Explorer with "Show Friendly HTTP error messages" enabled in advanced settings (the default), Internet Explorer will only display this page if it contains more than 512 bytes.

Setting

Description

Limit simultaneous requests

(Server configuration only)

Enter a number to limit simultaneous requests to ColdFusion MX. When the server reaches the limit, requests are queued and handled in the order received. Limiting the number of simultaneous requests can improve performance.

Timeout requests after [n] seconds

Enable this option to prevent unusually lengthy requests from using up server resources. Enter a limit to the time that ColdFusion MX waits before terminating a request. Requests that take longer than the timeout period are terminated.

Use UUID for cftoken

Specify whether to use a universally unique identifier (UUID), rather than a random number, for a cftoken.

Enable HTTP status codes

Select this option to configure ColdFusion MX to set a status code of 500 Internal Server Error for an unhandled error. Disable this option to configure ColdFusion MX to set a status code of 200 OK for everything, including unhandled errors.

Enable Whitespace Management

(Server configuration only)

Enable this option to compress runs of spaces, tabs and carriage return/line feeds. Compressing whitespace can significantly compact the output of a ColdFusion page.

Missing Template Handler

Specify a page to execute when ColdFusion MX cannot find a requested page. This specification is relative to the web root.

If the user is running Internet Explorer with "Show Friendly HTTP error messages" enabled in advanced settings (the default), Internet Explorer will only display this page if it contains more than 512 bytes.

Site-wide Error Handler

Specify a page to execute when ColdFusion MX encounters an error while processing a request. This specification is relative to the web root. If the user is running Internet Explorer with "Show Friendly HTTP error messages" enabled in advanced settings (the default), Internet Explorer will only display this page if it contains more than 512 bytes.

Version 6.1

Comments are no longer accepted for ColdFusion MX 6.1. ColdFusion 8 is the current version.

Comments

profit11 said on May 25, 2004 at 9:30 AM :

Missing Template Handler & Site-wide Error Handler

1.) Something should be said about how exactly to enter the path of these two files. I found out from the CF forumns that it should be a root-relative path from the root web server folder.

2.) It should be mentioned that once you decide to use these two features by entering paths and clicking on "Submit Changes", CF stops automatically logging 404s and exceptions in application.log and exception.log.

lyric said on May 26, 2004 at 6:20 PM :

Took me a bit of fiddling to get this right - the solution for me was to add a mapping like so:

Logical Path: /errors
Absolute Path: c:\inetpub\wwwroot\errors

Missing Template Handler: /errors/404.cfm

TomChiv said on Feb 3, 2005 at 2:36 AM :

Some indication of which if any settings need a restart to be applied would be great !

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