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2 comment(s)There appears to be much trouble and confusion using ColdFusion and scheduled tasks over SSL. If you Google search or check out the official Adobe forums there are numbers of threads mentioning this issue, with no process to fix or resolve this issue.
The number one suggestion and most popular solution seemed to be setting up a virtual host for localhost (basically only accepting connections from 127.0.0.1). I guess that works and you can go that route, but there is an easy solution to the SSL issue also.
In a nutshell, CFHTTP has some issues with SSL. All one has to do is add the certificates for your SSL sites that you are running your scheduled tasks against. It's a simple 2 step process after you get the certificate.
- Copy the certificate file to the Java Runtime security folder ColdFusion is using (e.g.,/opt/coldfusion9/runtime/jre/lib/security).
- Run the key tool (in your jre bin folder) to import the certificate into the list available to ColdFusion. Here is an example, assuming you are in your jre/lib/security folder: ../../bin/keytool -import -v -alias some-name-alias-cert -file the-cert-you-copied.crt -storepass changeit -keystore cacerts
Some notes in the above keytool command:
- For the -storepass option, "changeit" is the default ColdFusion passphrase used.
- The -keystore option is referring to the file holding the list of certificates that have been imported. cacerts is a file already located in the jre/lib/security folder. If you don't specify it will default install the certificate into your home directory, which is not accessible by ColdFusion.
I recommend you read it in full for more details.
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I have tried this still not working.
I had my scheduled tasks working before, I added the SSL to the web site. I did this with 127.0.0.1 and port 80 listed was the only way I could get the scheduled tasks to work. Since I added the SSL I have lost the scheduled tasks. I have added the certficate to coldfusion and can tell that it is there and have rebooted the server still no luck though with the scheduled task running. I get the long error message about possible things that are wrong. I can take the URL out of the Scheduled task and but that into the browser and works great.
I am running windows 2000, coldfusion 8, java 1.6
So now what do I check?
Thanks for any help.
David.
Any luck
David, I know this is months from your post, but did you resolve your problem with the scheduled tasks? I'm having similar issues as you've described. All worked fine until I renewed a Verisign certificate. Now the scheduled tasks won't run, even after manually importing the cert into the keystore.