How to prepare the instance with ColdFusion site for upgrade to Onyx

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

1. Connect to the server via RDP.

2. Navigate to %plesk_dir%etcDiskSecurity folder and create a new file named coldfusion.xml.

3. Add the content of the downloaded file (depending on the version of ColdFusion installed) to the recently created file:

   • For ColdFusion 8
   • For ColdFusion 9
   • For ColdFusion 10

Additional information

• 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

• In every file [COLDFUSION8_CFIDE] value should be replaced by CFIDE value from the following file:

  [COLDFUSIONX]serverscfusioncfusion-earcfusion-warWEB-INFcfusionlibneo-runtime.xml