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Thanks, Eric Cobb http://www.cfgears.com ColdFusion - the most profitable "dead" language I've ever worked with. Matthew Reinbold wrote: > I am currently tasked with moving a set of ColdFusion 8 sites with different > domains to a new host. The original developer hosted the website out of his > house. Because he had full control over the Linux box there are several > symbolic links created - the file system knows that calls to what seem to be > "../some/thing" should actually result to the file directory of another site > ala "../other/thing". All the sites share the same database. Not the way I > would have set things up but its what I am dealt. > > Couple questions here: > 1) I've previously used IIS and virtual directories to support having > different domains running on the same CF box with the same db backend. Are > their hosts that support virtual domains without having to purchase dedicated > (own the entire box) plans? > 2) I believe I could also accomplish the same thing by setting up aliases in > Apache. Again, are the CF hosts that let me define alias names to support > redirecting multiple incoming domains to different file folders (without > having to pay the hunderds a month to completely configure a system)? > > While I believe I could get away with CF Mappings for the > "...some/thing/...", "../other/thing" I don't see how that can solve my > multi-domains-to-same-box challenge. What are my options? > > Matthew Reinbold > Creative Principal, Vox Pop Design, http://voxpopdesign.com > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Want to reach the ColdFusion community with something they want? Let them know on the House of Fusion mailing lists Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:331076 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
