Developer Edition Watermark (Multiple Instances)

Posted At : 05 January 2006 17:07 | Posted By : Andy Allan
Related Categories: ColdFusion

I just discovered something this morning when I started messing about with a CF report in my "dev" instance on my local machine.

I run CF (Developer Edition) in multi-server configuration mode with a number of instances.

Anyway, I had a need to test out a report and when I fired it up in my browser, I got a Water Mark Image File is invalid error. It went on to ask me to make sure that the watermark.png file is in the correct directory and that I hadn't tampered with it.

Well, as it turns out, it wasn't in the correct directory jrun/servers/dev/cfusion.ear/cfusion.war/WEB-INF/cfusion/lib

A quick shufty showed that it also didn't exist in the correct location for any of my other instances - in fact, it didn't exist at all for any of my instances, other than the default "cfusion" one.

So, to cut a long story short, it appears that during instance creation, the watermark.png file isn't copied to new instances.

How to fix it? Simply manually copy the file.

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I had the same error while trying to use cfdocument a few weeks ago. Took be a little while to solve the problem since it is not documented. (unitil now that is)

# Posted By Mitch | 05/01/06 20:22

So what's to stop people from changing the image and defeating the purpose of a watermark?

# Posted By Richard | 06/01/06 14:06

I knew someone would ask that :)

The dev edition does some sort of check on the watermark.png file - how sophisticated I don't know.

# Posted By Andy Allan | 06/01/06 14:50

Could you make the Fix any harder? :-)

Cheers mate may come in useful someday

# Posted By Big Mad Kev | 06/01/06 15:44

Thanks Andy. I just bumped into this and your post was spot on and timely.

# Posted By Rob Brooks-Bilson | 23/06/06 01:17

CF is garbage - way too many problems - especially since Adobe took over. I have been having the cfdocument no pages error randomly and intermittently on a production standard edition cf server - it is killing my business b/c there is no documentation and no fix and it only happens randomly???? We are leaving CF and swithcing to Ruby on Rails or .NET. CF is a DEAD technology - way way behind Web 2.0 standards. LAME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

# Posted By Tommy | 09/10/06 22:12

OK. Bye then.

# Posted By Andy Allan | 10/10/06 11:30

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