Server Home

There are 3 ways that CFConfig will determine the server(s) you would like it to operate on. Each command has a to and/or from parameter to specify this.

1. The current working directory if it is the web root for a CommandBox server.

2. You provide the name of a previously-started CommandBox server

3. You provide a file path to the CF home of the server

Lucee 4/5 web CF home

The folder containing the lucee-web.xml.cfm file. An example would be:

<webroot>/WEB-INF/lucee/

Lucee 4/5 server CF home

Path to be the lucee-server folder containing the /context/lucee-server.xml file. An example would be:

/opt/lucee/lib/lucee-server/

Adobe 9/10/11/2016/2018 CF home

The cfusion folder that contains the lib/neo-runtime.xml file. An example would be:

C:/ColdFusion11/cfusion/

JSON File

Just provide the path to the JSON file. This is auto-deteced if the path ends in .JSON. An example would be:

C:/path/to/myConfig.json

Server Format (engine/version)

Every command with a to and/or from parameter also has a matching toFormat and/orfromFormat` parameter. In most cases, you don't need to provide this. If you are pointing to an existing CommandBox server, or typical server installation, CFConfig will examine the files in the CF home to determine what engine and version it is. However, if you are writing files to an empty or non-existent directory, you'll need to tell CFConfig what format to write them in.

Format is specified as engine@version where:

• engine is the name of the CF engine

• version is a semantic version number representing the engine version

Possible engine values are:

• luceeWeb - Lucee web context

• luceeServer - Lucee server context (Default for Lucee servers)

• adobe - Adobe server

• railoWeb - Railo web Context

• railoServer - Railo server context

Here are some examples of server formats:

• adobe@10

• adobe@11.0.10

• luceeServer@5

• luceeWeb@4.5

Default format for Lucee

If you are interacting with a Lucee CommandBox server and don't provide a format, CommandBox will automatically default to the luceeServer format which operates on the server context. If you wish to interact with the web context (which has little distinction in a CommandBox server since there's only one web context per server) you will need to provide the explicit luceeWeb format.

cfconfig show fromFormat=luceeWeb