Question
ColdFusion is not supported starting from Plesk 12.5.
Websites which are using ColdFusion engine become unavailable after upgrade to Plesk Onyx with the following error:
HTTP Error 401.3 - Unauthorized: Access is denied due to an ACL set on the requested resource.
How to prepare the instance with ColdFusion site for an upgrade to Onyx?
Answer
Note: Other CF versions were not tested as they are not supported by Plesk 12.5
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Connect to the server via RDP.
- Navigate to
%plesk_dir%etcDiskSecurity
folder and create a new file namedcoldfusion.xml
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Add the content of the downloaded file (depending on the version of ColdFusion installed) to the recently created file:
Additional information
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In every file
[COLDFUSIONX]
value should be replaced by actual webroot path of ColdFusion installation, which can be taken from the following registry value:HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINESOFTWAREAdobeInstall DataAdobe ColdFusion XWebRoot
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In every file
[COLDFUSION8_CFIDE]
value should be replaced byCFIDE
value from the following file:[COLDFUSIONX]serverscfusioncfusion-earcfusion-warWEB-INFcfusionlibneo-runtime.xml