On one of my servers, attempts to go to the CFIDE Administrator resulted in an error like “not a valid class byte array.”

We got this error because the default website was not enabled.  The solution was to enable the default website and access the administrator through it.

Thanks to Paul Vecchione at Creative Computer Services for the fix!

Error details:

The web site you are accessing has experienced an unexpected error.

Please contact the website administrator.

The following information is meant for the website developer for debugging purposes.

Error Occurred While Processing Request

this does not appear to be a valid class byte array

Resources:

* Check the ColdFusion documentation to verify that you are using the correct syntax.

* Search the Knowledge Base to find a solution to your problem.

java.io.IOException: this does not appear to be a valid class byte array

at coldfusion.compiler.ClassReader.findEndOfClass(ClassReader.java:219)

at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.parseClasses(NeoTranslator.java:394)

at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:269)

at coldfusion.compiler.NeoTranslator.translateJava(NeoTranslator.java:106)

at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$1.fetch(TemplateClassLoader.java:282)

at coldfusion.util.LruCache.get(LruCache.java:188)

at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader$TemplateCache.fetchSerial(TemplateClassLoader.java:223)

at coldfusion.util.AbstractCache.fetch(AbstractCache.java:58)

at coldfusion.util.SoftCache.get(SoftCache.java:81)

at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.findClass(TemplateClassLoader.java:422)

at coldfusion.runtime.TemplateClassLoader.newInstance(TemplateClassLoader.java:391)

at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.setTemplate(IncludeTag.java:149)

at coldfusion.tagext.lang.IncludeTag.setTemplatePath(IncludeTag.java:84)

at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.invoke(CfincludeFilter.java:64)

at coldfusion.filter.CfincludeFilter.include(CfincludeFilter.java:33)

at coldfusion.filter.ApplicationFilter.invoke(ApplicationFilter.java:172)

at coldfusion.filter.RequestMonitorFilter.invoke(RequestMonitorFilter.java:51)

at coldfusion.filter.PathFilter.invoke(PathFilter.java:86)

at coldfusion.filter.ExceptionFilter.invoke(ExceptionFilter.java:69)

at coldfusion.filter.BrowserDebugFilter.invoke(BrowserDebugFilter.java:52)

at coldfusion.filter.ClientScopePersistenceFilter.invoke(ClientScopePersistenceFilter.java:28)

at coldfusion.filter.BrowserFilter.invoke(BrowserFilter.java:38)

at coldfusion.filter.GlobalsFilter.invoke(GlobalsFilter.java:38)

at coldfusion.filter.DatasourceFilter.invoke(DatasourceFilter.java:22)

at coldfusion.filter.RequestThrottleFilter.invoke(RequestThrottleFilter.java:115)

at coldfusion.CfmServlet.service(CfmServlet.java:107)

at coldfusion.bootstrap.BootstrapServlet.service(BootstrapServlet.java:78)

at jrun.servlet.ServletInvoker.invoke(ServletInvoker.java:91)

at jrun.servlet.JRunInvokerChain.invokeNext(JRunInvokerChain.java:42)

at jrun.servlet.JRunRequestDispatcher.invoke(JRunRequestDispatcher.java:257)

at jrun.servlet.ServletEngineService.dispatch(ServletEngineService.java:541)

at jrun.servlet.jrpp.JRunProxyService.invokeRunnable(JRunProxyService.java:204)

at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$DownstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:318)

at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$ThreadThrottle.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:426)

at jrunx.scheduler.ThreadPool$UpstreamMetrics.invokeRunnable(ThreadPool.java:264)

at jrunx.scheduler.WorkerThread.run(WorkerThread.java:66)