help with encrypted cfm files

[VBAPrincess]

I have been contacted by a "client of a client" regarding their website. The developers of their site closed shop three years ago and now they are having an issue with the admin section where they go to view credit card payments made by their clients.

Here's the error: (

http://communitycablevision.com/admin/)

Invalid token '\n' found on line 95 at column 0.
The CFML compiler was processing:

The closing tag for the CFML comment is missing.Comment begins on line 54.

The cfm files are encrypted so I have had trouble viewing them. I got a copy of novabean's cfm encryption/decryption tool and although it says it decrypted the files, when I open them they appear to be empty. The admin folder in the root of the website has an index.cfm file, but again, it appears to be empty. A file that shows them the admin menu (menu.cfm) has been decrypted successfully but I doesn't seem like the error we're getting occurred as a result of this file's code.

I really don't know much about ColdFusion at all and am trying to help out. The ISP is trying to tell me the problem is with some data in the SQL db. Based on the error message, it looks like something is wrong with the code in the file, but which one? My first thought would be the index.cfm file but it's empty.

Any and all help would be greatly appreciated!!

Diana
VBA Princess
-- I'm hoping to grow up to be a Goddess!

 

[imstillatwork]

look for a file called Application.cfm

it will run before everything else if it exists.

if files are encrypted, decrypt them, and save them as decrypted. The only reason to encrypt them is to protect intellectual property - it's worthless for security, and a pain in the b-u-t-t

Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

 

[VBAPrincess]

Thanks for the help! I decrypted application.cfm with the novabeans tool but it came up blank. There's nothing there. Any other way I can decrypt it? It shouldn't be blank should it?

Thanks again!

ps -- I believe the thing about being a pain cause it sure is causing me some! :-(

Diana
VBA Princess
-- I'm hoping to grow up to be a Goddess!

 

[imstillatwork]

coldfusion comes with encrypt/decrypt utilities (small .exe files)

check somewhere in the server install directories if you have access to it.

Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

 

[VBAPrincess]

Kevin,

Thanks for your previous suggestions. I have now tried the ABPositive decrypt utility and got blank files. I also tried the cfdecrypt.exe with the application.cfm file and got a message "File is not an encrypted template."

Any other suggestions? I am really at a loss here but now I'm determined to figure this out. I've been googling my little heart out trying to find info online but to no avail.

Thanks!

Diana
VBA Princess
-- I'm hoping to grow up to be a Goddess!

 

[imstillatwork]

no idea unless there is some third-party encryption for the files running on the server?

Best bet now is to talk to whoever made the site before?

The error is code, not data (unless someone did something completely crazy and stored code in a DB to run after db output...)

Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

 

[VBAPrincess]

Kevin,

You've been a doll to continue to help me and if you have the energy and patience I have one final set of questions.

I have since learned that the problems on this site occurred just after the client renewed their ssl certificate. The site went down, the ISP told them they needed to renew the ssl cert, which they did, and the client was told the site would be up and running in 30 min. It was, but the admin section started producing the error.

I have spoken with support at the ISP and was told the problem must be with the data because they had looked at the files to determine the problem but couldn't because the files were encrypted. However, my thinking all along has been like your last reply -- the error is in the code. If the code hasn't been altered since 2003 (or so we believe), why else would it be producing this error now? I have limited knowledge of SSL -- could this have started the error? How?

Thanks again for your help! :-{}

Diana
VBA Princess
-- I'm hoping to grow up to be a Goddess!