I didn't see the original post, so I'm jumping in the middle.
At 08:15 AM 09/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>What I am wanting is a relative path but relative to the web root...for
>portability.
>
>I have an include file that I want to include by specifying the same path
>every time in all files in the hierarchy. So I put this include file in
>/global directory and want to reference it by "/global/foo.cfm", which if it
>worked, would be the same include line in all files in my web site. But
>this path does not work for includes.
The way I do this is by setting a variable ( Either to the local scope or
the request scope ) in the application.cfm called DirLevel:
Root: Dirlevel = ""
Sub1 Direvel = "../"
SubSub1: Dirlevel = "../../"
Sub2 Dirlevel = "../
When you create your include, make all the paths relative to the root
directory and add dirlevel in there.
<A HREF="#dirlevel#index.cfm">Home</A>
<A HREF="#dirlevel#sub1/page1.cfm">Page 1</A>
etc.. etc..
This makes it easy, and I do it all the time.
One potential problem is that you'll need different application.cfm for
each directory.
>I have tried a variety of absolute paths and find none that work. If anyone
>can shed some light on this...my host shares the CF server so asking them to
>configure a mapping for "/" is not going to happen since it would only work
>for my domain and not for all the other domains they host.
You can always get to the exact root directory (I.E. www.mysite.com/ )
by using the slash. So the code I wrote above could easily be re-written like:
<A HREF="/index.cfm">Home</A>
<A HREF="/sub1/page1.cfm">Page 1</A>
And the browser sees the '/' and automatically adds it to the end of the
url, such as www.mysite.com/index.cfm for the first link. Try it; It
works. However, if the root directory of your application is not the root
directory of your server, that won't work.
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