Without detailed errors enabled then you will not see cf errors, you will see 500 server errors. You need the web.config to enable custom settings for your site and for asp.net, this is how it works on iis 7. If you never had a web.config before then your site wad only using default config, and as your using cf it was not required for asp.net
Regards Russ Michaels On Aug 29, 2012 4:37 AM, "Maureen" <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My point exactly. The file has never been in web root until the tech at > the hosting company placed it there a few days ago. The sole content of it > seems to turn detailed error messages. > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> > <configuration> > <system.webServer> > <httpErrors errorMode="Detailed" /> > </system.webServer> > </configuration> > > Since it is a shared environment my assumption was that I would never > access to to CFIDE from the site. > > It seems like a huge security hole to me to have any kind of configuration > file be world accessible, but I'll take your word for it. > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:49 AM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> > wrote: > > > > > the usual method is to have a vDir that points to a copy of the CFIDE > with > > all the scripts inside it. The host should be doing this. > > it is not a good idea to maintain your own copy of CFIDE unless you are > > going to keep it up to date with any patched or hotfixes yourself, which > > may get out of sync with hosts version of cf. > > > > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 12:54 PM, Byron Mann <byronos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > > > The latter issue with CFIDE is probably fine too. There probably just > > isnt > > > a default doc. > > > > > > Best practice for a shared host would be to only put a copy of > > > /CFIDE/scripts into your web root for your convenience, since you > > shouldn't > > > have any CF admin access. > > > > > > Byron Mann > > > Lead Engineer and Architect > > > Hostmysite.com > > > On Aug 28, 2012 3:06 AM, "Maureen" <mamamaur...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > -- > > > > Russ Michaels > > > > www.bluethunderinternet.com : Business hosting services & solutions > > www.cfmldeveloper.com : ColdFusion developer community > > www.michaels.me.uk : my blog > > www.cfsearch.com : ColdFusion search engine > > ** > > *skype me* : russmichaels > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:352333 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
