Comments on: Manually Purge ColdFusion Client Sessions in Database http://www.usercore.com/manually-purge-coldfusion-client-sessions-in-database/ Matt MacDougall - attempting to grok users, management, marketing, linux, subversion, coldfusion, os x and web geekery Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:04:47 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 By: Chad http://www.usercore.com/manually-purge-coldfusion-client-sessions-in-database/comment-page-1/#comment-391 Chad Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:58:58 +0000 http://www.usercore.com/?p=73#comment-391 Thanks Matt. We're on CF8. Didn't dawn on me to click on the datasource for further options. Thanks Matt. We’re on CF8. Didn’t dawn on me to click on the datasource for further options.

]]> By: Matt http://www.usercore.com/manually-purge-coldfusion-client-sessions-in-database/comment-page-1/#comment-390 Matt Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:46:15 +0000 http://www.usercore.com/?p=73#comment-390 Hey Chad, First of all, I should have mentioned I was doing this in CF8. I think CF7 was setup similarly but can't remember for sure. On the Server Settings, Client Variables page just click on the same of your selected default storage mechanism for client sessions. In the screen that comes up with setting for that storage mechanism, there should be a checkbox set by default that says "Purge data for clients that remain unvisited for 90 days". Just uncheck that box. As far as I know, the only way to turn this off is to uncheck that box for your default selection. Even if you never actually use that default and have different storage mechanisms per application you still need to uncheck that default one in cf admin. Also I have seen cf magically turn this back on after a hotfix so keep that in mind. If that's not working for you let me know we can dig into some raw config files. -Matt Hey Chad,

First of all, I should have mentioned I was doing this in CF8. I think CF7 was setup similarly but can’t remember for sure.

On the Server Settings, Client Variables page just click on the same of your selected default storage mechanism for client sessions. In the screen that comes up with setting for that storage mechanism, there should be a checkbox set by default that says “Purge data for clients that remain unvisited for 90 days”. Just uncheck that box.

As far as I know, the only way to turn this off is to uncheck that box for your default selection. Even if you never actually use that default and have different storage mechanisms per application you still need to uncheck that default one in cf admin.

Also I have seen cf magically turn this back on after a hotfix so keep that in mind.

If that’s not working for you let me know we can dig into some raw config files.

-Matt

]]> By: Chad http://www.usercore.com/manually-purge-coldfusion-client-sessions-in-database/comment-page-1/#comment-389 Chad Fri, 12 Jun 2009 13:21:13 +0000 http://www.usercore.com/?p=73#comment-389 Great tip! How were you able to disable the purge? I was on the phone with an adobe tech and they couldn't even tell me how to do it. According to <a href="http://kb2.adobe.com/cps/262/2621e228.html" rel="nofollow">this</a>, you can't set it to 0 or CF will try to purge every millisecond. I tried to up it to just once a month, but I looked in the logs and CF read the value as 0 and went back to the default of 1 hour, 7 minutes. Great tip!

How were you able to disable the purge? I was on the phone with an adobe tech and they couldn’t even tell me how to do it. According to this, you can’t set it to 0 or CF will try to purge every millisecond. I tried to up it to just once a month, but I looked in the logs and CF read the value as 0 and went back to the default of 1 hour, 7 minutes.

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