ColdFusion 10

You may be in the situation that ColdFusion services are not starting up and a manual startup yields no useful information, too. It simply failed after it tries to startup the services for a very long time. If services are starting up it may takes an extreme long time to start.

Start-Service : Failed to start service 'ColdFusion 10 Application Server cfusion (ColdFusion 10 Application Server cfusion)'.
At line:1 char:1
+ Start-Service Cold*
+ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
   + CategoryInfo  : OpenError: (System.ServiceProcess.ServiceController:ServiceController) [Start-Service],
  ServiceCommandException
   + FullyQualifiedErrorId : StartServiceFailed,Microsoft.PowerShell.Commands.StartServiceCommand

Background:

There are for sure more possible situation that may cause a ColdFusion startup failure, but if you have not changed anything and only rebooted/restarted your server/coldfusion after some OS updates and ColdFusion is now failing to start without having anything changed in ColdFusion you should check this issue very first. From my point of view this issue here is the most common issue that everyone will experience sooner or later.

If you run ColdFusion 10 tag with an SSL URL and you receive an error message I/O Exception: hostname in certificate didn't match: != OR OR it may be possible that you have tried to connect to a SSL server that is using Server Name Indication (SNI). With SNI there can be several independend SSL certificates installed on the same ip address. If you cannot change the remote server to run one certificate on one IP you need to install the updater.

SNI is only supported in ColdFusion 10 from Updater 18 or later.

• CFHTTP does not work with SNI enabled SSL