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glast06 is a Windows 2003 server running IIS6. It's purpose is to host web service modules for GLAST and to host Release Manager for Windows.

Installing the <display:*> tag library in a ColdFusion server

All of our ColdFusion server instances make use of the <display:*> tag library, which has dependencies on five jar files and one .tld file. Therefore, when ColdFusion is installed, perform the following steps to install the <display:*> tag library:

1. mkdir cf_root/WEB-INF/displaytag
2. Copy the following five jars to cf_root/WEB-INF/displaytag (the folder you just created)
   • displaytag-1.0-jrun4.jar
   • jstl-1.0.6.jar
   • standard-1.0.6.jar
   • commons-beanutils-1.7-jrun4.jar
   • commons-lang-2.0.jar
3. Edit cf_root/WEB-INF/web.xml to prepend cf_root/WEB-INF/displaytag to ColdFusion's classpath:

   <context-param id="macromedia_context_88">
     <param-name>cf.class.path</param-name>
     <param-value>
       ./WEB-INF/displaytag,
       ./WEB-INF/cfusion/lib/updates,
       ./WEB-INF/cfusion/lib,
       ./WEB-INF/cfusion/gateway/lib,
       ./WEB-INF/cfform/jars
     </param-value>
   </context-param>

Now you can use the <display:*> tag library in any ColdFusion page by adding this to the top of your .cfm page:

<cfimport prefix="display" taglib="/WEB-INF/displaytag-11.tld" />

Getting CAS to work with ColdFusion

There is a bug in all 1.4 versions of Sun's JDK which prevents SSL certificates with a key length greater than 1024 from working properly. You will know you have this problem if you try to use CAS (our Single Sign-On Service) from a .cfm because you will get an error simmiliar to the following

cfhttp.errorDetail = I/O Exception: Default SSL context init failed: java.io.IOException: subject key, Unknown key spec: Invalid RSA modulus size.

Since http://glast-ground.slac.stanford.edu/ uses an SSL certificate with a key length of 4096, you have to patch the JVM (it is simple to do). ColdFusion's JVM lives in jrun_root/jre (on Windows this is typically C:\JRun4\jre). Follow these simple instruction to patch your ColdFusion's JVM to support SSL certificates with 4096 key lengths.