CommandBox Password

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Hi, I am new to Lucee… just wondering how to set server and web passwords if you using CommandBox to launch local development servers. My steps to have a Lucee Dev Server Running:

  1. cd to project root
  2. box server start
  3. navigate to locahost:port//lucee/admin/[ server | web ].cfm
  4. #3 will ask to set up password.txt under /lucee-server/context/ and import file

My web searches lead to this page: Server Start - CFConfig Documentation but I am not sure if this is the answer.

Many thanks!

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@til You have to put the password.txt file on WEB-INF\lucee-server\context
directory. Please take below the path as a reference. And the password.txt file should have the password which you want to set for admin.

C:\Users\Your_system_name\.CommandBox\server\CF000CB06C96030CE5E09ABD3F616F2B-Root\lucee-5.3.8.206\WEB-INF\lucee-server\context\

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@cfmitrah thanks so much… I did not think to search the drive at all.

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The much simpler option is to use a CommandBox module called CFConfig. It allows you to manage all sorts of configuration options automatically via JSON files or env variables. For example, just having a file called .cfconfig.json in your web root when the server starts will import all your settings into the server, including passwords, datasources, mail servers, etc.

What I do locally to set a simple default password for EVERY server I start is documented here on this note from Pete.

Look under the “another way to go” section where you can install the commandbox-dotenv module alongside commandbox-cfconfig and then set a default password with these commands:

propertyFile set ~/.box.env cfconfig_adminPassword Password123!
install commandbox-cfconfig
install commandbox-dotenv