Howard said:
>they won't be
> creating mappings like "/" to my web root
that doesn't necessarily mean they won't set up a mapping for you, but they
cannot set up a "/" mapping as that is already used by CF for the default
root....
ask them to setup a mapping for "/somename" that points to where you want
it, then you can use <cfinclude template = "/somename/templatename.cfm"
~~
Stephenie Hamilton
----- Original Message -----
From: Owens, Howard <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 1:04 PM
Subject: RE: Absolute Path Usage
> 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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