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Chapter 3: Configuring ColdFusion Server 57
Log slow pages
ColdFusion allows you to track pages in your applications that take longer than a
specified length of time to process. You can specify the amount of time ColdFusion
allows before writing an entry to the
server.log
file.
Logging email messages
In addition to system logs, ColdFusion writes a log of errors generated by SMTP mail
server used to post mail from ColdFusion applications. You can choose to log warning
messages, information messages, or error messages.
In Windows, the mail log file is stored by default in cfusion\mail\log . On Solaris, the
mail log file is stored by default in
/opt/coldfusion/mail/log
.
To enable email logging:
1. Open the ColdFusion Administrator to the Mail Logging page.
2. Select the error severity you want and click to enable the Log all email messages
checkbox.
3. Click Apply to complete the operation.
Log files created by ColdFusion
ColdFusion creates nine different log files.
ColdFusion Log Files
Log Filename Description
exec.log
Logs problems with the ColdFusion Server service. If the
ColdFusion service hangs or if the service was unable to access
the system registry, that information is written to
cfexec.log
.
rdseservice.log
Logs errors occurring in the ColdFusion RDS service, which
provides file, debugging, directory, and database browsing
services for ColdFusion Studio.
application.log Logs every ColdFusion error reported back to a user. All
application page errors, including ColdFusion syntax errors,
ODBC errors, and SQL errors, are written to this log file. Every
error message that is displayed on a user’s browser is logged
here, along with the visitor’s IP address and browser
information, if possible.
webserver.log Logs errors occurring in the Web server and the ColdFusion
stub.