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Configuring debugging in the ColdFusion MX Administrator

ColdFusion can provide important debugging information for every application page requested
by a browser. The ColdFusion MX Administrator lets you specify which debugging information
to make available and how to display it. The following sections briefly describe the Administrator
settings. For more information, see the online Help for the Debugging pages.

Debugging Settings page

In the Administrator, the following options on the Debugging Settings page determine the
information that ColdFusion displays in debugging output:
Option
Enable Robust
Exception
Information
Enable Debugging
Select Debugging
Output Format
Report Execution
Times
General Debug
Information
Database Activity
Exception
information
Tracing information
390 Chapter 18: Debugging and Troubleshooting Applications
Description
Enables the display of the following information when ColdFusion displays
the exception error page. (Cleared by default.)
• Path and URL of the page that caused the error
• Line number and short snippet of the code where the error was identified
• Any SQL statement and data source
• Java stack trace
Enables debugging output. When this option is cleared, no debugging
information is displayed, including all output of
default.)
You should disable debugging output on production servers. Doing so
increases security by ensuring that users cannot see debugging information. It
also improves server response times. You can also limit debugging output to
specific IP addresses; for more information, see
page" on page 392.
Determines how to display debugging output:
• The classic.cfm template (the default) displays information as plain HTML
text at the bottom of the page.
• The dockable.cfm template uses DHTML to display the debugging
information using an expanding tree format in a separate window. This
window can be either a floating pane or docked to the browser window. For
more information on the dockable output format, see
dockable.cfm output format" on page
Lists ColdFusion pages that run as the result of an HTTP request and displays
execution times, ColdFusion also highlights in red pages with processing
times greater than the specified value, and you can select between a summary
display or a more detailed, tree structured, display.
Displays general information about the request: ColdFusion MX Version,
Template, Time Stamp, User Locale, User Agent, User IP, and Host Name.
Displays debugging information about access to SQL data sources and
stored procedures. (Selected by default.)
Lists all ColdFusion exceptions raised in processing the request. (Selected by
default.)
Displays an entry for each
debugging output does not include tracing information, but the output page
does include information for
(Selected by default.)
For more information on using the
trace execution" on page
cftrace
"Debugging IP addresses
399.
tag. When this option is cleared, the
cftrace
tags that specify
cftrace
tag, see"Using the cftrace tag to
cftrace
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calls. (Cleared by
"Using the
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