Yeah, I have experienced that in the past. Some of those scenarios can be handled with virtual directories pointing to whatever folder and dummy files in those folders.
Don't think I've done that since CF 7. Byron Mann Lead Engineer & Architect Hostmysite.com On Oct 25, 2012 1:29 PM, "Russ Michaels" <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote: > > unfortunately if you enable this option it will also break other things, > like cfchart, cfimage and tags where a pointer to a generated image file is > used because the pointer file (graphdata.cfm for example) doesn't really > exist. So if IIS checks the file exists before passing the request to cf, > it will give a 404 error. > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 4:46 PM, Chris <0404tow...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > WE HAVE A WINNER! > > > > Yes, that's exactly what the fix is -- telling IIS to check the file > > exists before passing it to ColdFusion for processing. > > > > I don't know how our apps with folder permissions have (apparently) > > been trouble-free for years, but it looks like we've now fixed this > > issue. Perhaps using HTTPS for this new app is what surfaced the > > issue. > > > > So ColdFusion was going around IIS, not because ColdFusion had > > permission, but because IIS wasn't checking the .cfm file's existence > > before passing it to ColdFusion. > > > > Thanks Byron, and also Russ and others for the help. > > > > Chris > > > > > > On Thu, Oct 25, 2012 at 12:12 AM, Byron Mann <byronos...@gmail.com> > wrote: > > > > > > There is somewhere in the handler mappings in iis to "check if the file > > > exists". If it is unchecked I do not think IIS touches the file system. > > > > > > Maybe? > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:353006 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
