I have a client with a CF7 site on shared hosting (CrystalTech). They wanted a nice 404 handler page so I set one up via IIS. This only caught non-CF files (e.g. .html). Any CF file (like cfm, cfc, etc.) was still be handed off to ColdFusion which would return a 404. I had CrystalTech change the IIS setting for this site for it to verify existence of all files no matter the file type. This worked well or so I thought.
I see now that all Flash features are busted (cfchart, cfcalendar, etc.) and returning 404s. A little Googling shows this is a known thing in the CF world. ColdFusion handles Flash features like this by referring to non-existent files and then intercepts requests to these "magic named" files. This breaks if IIS is testing for file existence first. The solution frequently recommended is to create a 0-length file of the name CF is looking for to make IIS happy. Questions: - If I go that route, CF seems to look for some files in my docroot and some files in the CFIDE dir. I can't get to the latter in shared hosting so seems like this isn't the way (?). - The files CF looks for in my docroot have crazy numbering in them. Is this a stable URL or do I need to create a zillion dummy files? - This would all be easier in CF8/9 with the OnMissingTemplate handler but the upgrade from CF7 is a ways off. Is there any equivalent in CF7? I'm in shared hosting so don't believe the CFIDE site-wide handler is an option. Any suggestions? Thanks, Dave ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:335387 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
