about doing it has been, is there any kind of a (noticeable) performance
hit with doing searches, etc through the 404 page? I don't know how IIS
handles 404 and if it does any kind of extra logging or anything that it
doesn't do for normal pages.
John
-----Original Message-----
From: Mark A. Kruger - CFG [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Wednesday, March 31, 2004 8:39 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: RE: IIS Custom Error Pages in CF?
Yes you can.
1) Go into IIS properties for your site and choose the "custom errors"
tab.
2) Select the 404 error and choose edit.
3) change the "message type" from file to URL
4) Enter a .cfm page with a path relative to THIS site. So, for
example, if you put a "missingFile.cfm" handler in your root folder you
would enter "missingFile.cfm" - or if it was in a folder called Bob it
would be "Bob/missingfile.cfm".
This can be quite useful. I use this technique for some subscription
sites that wish to create unique URL's for their client subscribers.
After subscribing the user is instructed to use "blah.com/name" (i.e.
blah.com/MarySmith). Of course the directory "MarySmith" doesn't exist
so the request is forwarded to my .cfm file handler. The file handler
parses out "MarySmith" and sends the user to a customized page for login
or whatever.
A similar trick uses a wildcard entry on a DNS server to allow a user to
go to "marySmith.blah.com" - both tricks are great for sales CRM tools,
real estate sites and the like - any place where you want a use to have
a "personal website"
but it actually connected to a larger group or site.
-mark
Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG
www.cfwebtools.com
www.necfug.com
http://blog.mxconsulting.com
...what the web can be!
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:03 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: IIS Custom Error Pages in CF?
I'm trying to figure out if I can use a .cfm page (or possibly an .asp
page) for an IIS 5 custom 404 error page. I'm _not_ trying to
configure
CF's missing template handler as done through the CF Administrator.
That
works fine.
It appears that if you designate a .cfm page for 404 errors (for
example:
http://mysite.com/notapage.htm) then the .cfm page doesn't get sent
through the CF engine. Can this behaviour be changed? What about
.asp
pages - same problem? I haven't tried that route yet.
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