they arent using application.cfc only .cfm which loads global.cfm

I think back with Application.cfm, we also had to create a mapping for the directory, which you can do as an attribute to the cfapplication tag

oddly enough they dont use cfapplication they only use a cflock to set application dot vars

You should be able to add a custom tag path in the "Extensions" tab in cfadministrator if you have access to it

i cant access cfadmin as the ajax and message.js files get 404s so the login ajax request doesnt work

i have a few minutes, let me see what i can figure out

They use 100s of customtags that are already being used in prod, this is just a local dev env i am nto authorized to make big moves like that

hmm, maybe those were just available as attributes to cfapplication in lucee 😞 .

Is there any reason not to use Application.cfc? It was introduced in ACF 7 which was (checks notes 2005 - 19 years ago!)

If this is a local dev environment you should be able to get to the cfadministrator and make sure the custom tag path is set. if you are you using cfconfig with commandbox

So i can get to the cfadmin login, however looking at network traffic i see that there are 404s for cfmessage.js and cfajax.js which means i cannot login since it uses ajax for the authentication