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----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:30 AM
Subject: Re: Absolute Path Usage
> I didn't see the original post, so I'm jumping in the middle.
..
> 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.
This technique may be useful in some cases, although I'm not sure that it's
worth it. I'll probably just stick to hardcoding the ../../ etc levels in
each CFINCLUDE statement.
Thanks for the tip!
>
> >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.
It may work for <A HREF> but not for <CFINCLUDE template=> tag. That is the
whole point of my discussion. CFINCLUDE is very picky...it appears it ONLY
sees relative paths or paths specified in the server mapping file. That's
IT! How I wish it recognized "/" as the web root, meaning the placeholder
or representative location for http://www.mydomain.com/.
Bruce
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