Every seasoned developer will know that protecting your website from a hacker is a top priority, whether for your own reputation or for maintaining your company’s reputation and log-term revenue prospects.
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In my previous post, What is a SQL Injection Attack, I gave a brief overview of SQL injection and Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), primarily with regard to websites. In the example given, we saw that an attack could take the form of a ‘hacked’ URL which contained either a literal SQL statement, or a hexadecimal string that could be interpreted by an insecure SQL database server.
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After installing ColdFusion 8 and Apache successfully you may still see an “HTTP 500 Internal Server Error” when navigating to a ColdFusion page. All is not lost, you simply need to configure, or check the configuration of Apache. Apache requires very little post installation modification, but it is always good practice to check the httpd.conf file to ensure that the ColdFusion “install” scripts did what they were supposed to do.
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A few months ago I posted an article on Installing Apache on Vista, and it proved to be extremely popular. It appears that I was not the only one who found it a non trivial matter.
Now it is the turn of ColdFusion 8. ColdFusion 8 as we well know is the latest and greatest incarnation of the ColdFusion platform from Adobe. It has a lot of great new features such as cfimage, cfzip, cfexchange, some contentious features such as cfthread and cfinterface, and some not-so-necessarily-cool new “Web 2.0″ features such as cffeed and cfajax.
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Following the purchase of a spangly new Toshiba laptop running Vista, and not one for making life simple, I decided not to run my development environment on IIS7, but rather, I wanted to install the latest version of Apache. The installation process was not a trivial matter!
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