If I was hosting with a company (and I've worked with many shared hosts and
I use mappings on all my applications) that wouldn't set up a CFMapping for
me -- I'd change hosts.
There's no reason not to set up mappings for you.
H.
Howard Owens
Internet Operations Coordinator
www.insidevc.com
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
AIM: GoCatGo1956
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Bruce Holm [SMTP:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 9:16 AM
> To: CF-Talk
> Subject: Re: Absolute Path Usage
>
> My hosting company controls the CF Server administration mapping. SInce
> they share the CF server with many other website domains, they won't be
> creating mappings like "/" to my web root. If my domain was the only one
> on
> their server (dedicated server) then I could have them do this.
>
> Thanks for responding.
>
> Bruce
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Chad Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:52 AM
> Subject: Re: Absolute Path Usage
>
>
> > Im jumping into the middle also, but have to tried adding a mapping in
> the
> > CFadministrator?
> >
> > I had to use a path for some CFCINCLUDES that went 3 or 4 folders deep,
> and
> > it works great!
> >
> >
> >
> > At 08:51 AM 9/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> > >See below...
> > >
> > >----- 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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