Short answer - yes.
Long answer - Think of physical directories under the web root and virtual
directories set up in the web server (thinking of IIS here) as directories
to be used in HTML, such as <a href=""> and <img src="">. Think of CF
mappings as only available to CF code, such as <cfinclude> and <cfmodule>.
In fact, in <cfinclude> and <cfmodule>, if you want an absolute reference
(starting with "/"), then you can only use CF mappings. Without CF mappings
you must use relative references ("../../", etc.). One nice thing about CF
mappings is you can move included CF files out of the web root and then
noone can access them via the browser . . . it makes security easier.
HTH,
Dan
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<font size=3>How about virtual servers?<br>
If I set up a CF mapping, for instance: /includes =
/home/httpd/html/docs/www.thissite.com/includes<br>
Then do *ALL* sites on that server get the SAME include (to the wrong
site in most cases).<br>
<br>
<br>
At 07:09 PM 8/14/00 -0400, Peter Theobald wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>So you are saying it does not affect URL
requests at all, right?<br>
It only affects CFINCLUDE?<br>
<br>
Your example can't be right. You are using the mapping as a variable
"#foo#/SomeTemplate.cfm"<br>
If that were right, I wouldn't need mapping at all. I would just set a
variable.<br>
It must be more like this:<br>
<br>
MAP /cflib = /usr/home/coldfusion/library/peter<br>
<br>
<cfinclude template="/cflib/myfile.cfm"><br>
<br>
<br>
At 06:56 PM 8/14/00 -0400, Jeremy Allen wrote:<br>
<blockquote type=cite cite>All mappings do is create an alias for a
phsyical directory...<br>
<br>
like say if you wanted an absolute reference for CFINCLUDE<br>
<br>
you could make a mapping named Foo which points to
/usr/home/cftagman/cftags<br>
<br>
And say you had a lot of templates in /usr/home/cftagman/cftags then
you<br>
could use<br>
<br>
<CFINCLUDE Template="#foo#/SomeTemplate.cfm"> and
Sometemplate.cfm<br>
would of course be in the D:\CFStuff directory.<br>
<br>
Thats all :)<br>
<br>
Its purely CF driven and referenced with CF basically its a nice<br>
way to map out the absolute location for something. of course<br>
NT machines start with drive letters ;) So I would say that a<br>
that the Apache alias takes higher precedence than the CF<br>
Mapping.<br>
<br>
Jeremy Allen<br>
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<br>
<br>
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From: Peter Theobald
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Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 6:38 PM<br>
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]<br>
Subject: CF Administrator Mapping and Apache Alias<br>
<br>
<br>
What exactly does CF Administrator mapping do?<br>
Does it map URLs as they come in, in other words it affects ALL http
requests even to .html files?<br>
Or does it map URLs that are to .cfm files?<br>
Or does it only affect CFINCLUDE?<br>
<br>
How does it interact with Apache directory "Alias"
mapping?<br>
<br>
I want to map certain directories for images and cfm files. I also want a
different set of mappings for my CF library of includable
"functions" so I can use <cfinclude
template="/cflib/mymodule.cfm"> although that file is NOT
located under my document root.<br>
<br>
<br>
<br>
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