Ways to submit an error to CFError.org

On this site

Simply clicking on the Submit an error link at the top will give you a form to fill out.

Via your error page

The error page is just a .cfm file that sits on your server. We've embedded an HTML form into ours so we can be 2 clicks away from a submission.

NOTE: the file to edit is part of your ColdFusion install, so please back this up before changing anything. The version we have here is from a CF 8.0.0.176276 install.

Our file was found here C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\WEB-INF\exception\detail.cfm on an integrated install. If you're running an enterprise install we'd appreciate it if you could drop us a message telling us the standard path to this file.

After backing up this file, scroll down to around line 200 and look for an <hr /> tag. Copy the code below into the page around this point and tailor to suite. For example, we've given ourselves 50 columns and 5 rows. If you feel this is too intrusive, make it smaller.

Save the file and then go cause an error.

<!--- cferror.org form start ---> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <p>Submit this error to CFError.org</p> <form action="http://cferror.org/submit.cfm" method="post"> <input type="hidden" name="submittedFrom" value="remote error page" /> Error:<br /> <textarea name="error" cols="50" rows="5">#attributes.message# #attributes.detail#</textarea><br /> Code:<br /> <textarea name="code" cols="50" rows="5">#codeSnippet#</textarea><br /> Solution:<br /> <textarea name="description" cols="50" rows="5"></textarea><br /> <input type="submit" value="Submit" /> </form> </td> </tr> <tr> <td colspan="2"> <p>Search for a solution on CFError.org</p> <form action="http://cferror.org/" method="post"> Search for: <input type="text" name="searchTerm" /> <input type="submit" value="Search" /> </form> </td> </tr> <!--- cferror.org form end --->

We'd love to hear your experiences of using this technique too, so drop us a line.

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