Adobe ColdFusion 8

Disabling Remote Development Services

If you use Adobe Dreamweaver, Macromedia HomeSite, Adobe Flex Builder, or Eclipse to develop your applications, you can access a remote ColdFusion server using HTTP. However, you must configure Remote Development Services (RDS) in your integrated development environment (IDE), and RDS must be enabled in ColdFusion. Using RDS, IDE users can securely access remote files and data sources, build SQL queries from these data sources, and debug CFML code.

Note: The ColdFusion Report Builder uses RDS for the Query Builder and for charting support.

However, for security reasons, Adobe recommends that you disable RDS on a production server. To disable it, you must disable the RDSServlet mapping.

Disable the RDSServlet mapping

  1. Back up the web.xml file.

    This file is in the cf_root\wwwroot\WEB-INF directory in Windows and in the cf_root/wwwroot/WEB-INF directory in UNIX. In the multiserver and J2EE configurations, this file is under cf_webapp_root/WEB-INF.

  2. Open the original web.xml file for editing.
  3. Comment out the RDSServlet mapping, as the following example shows:
    <!--
<servlet-mapping id="coldfusion_mapping_9">
<servlet-name>RDSServlet</servlet-name>
<url-pattern>/CFIDE/main/ide.cfm</url-pattern>
</servlet-mapping>
-->

  4. Save the file.
  5. Restart ColdFusion.

    RDS is disabled on the ColdFusion server.

For more information, see Managing ColdFusion services in Windows, or Managing the ColdFusion process in UNIX.