At 10:31 AM 4/15/2002 -0400, you wrote: >i need someone to give me the loaddown on how cferror looks for the >templates. here's the situation. i have a site the where i have a template >called settings.cfm that i put all of the settings for the site in. this >includes the cfapplication tag, a bunch of global variables, and the cferror >tags. now the reason i do this is because i use the application.cfm tag to >also include the header.cfm file, which is the header for that particular >section. This setup allows me to write the settings once and include them in >child directories while being able to change the header for each child >directory if i want.
I see nothing wrong with that approach. >ok, enough with the setup, now onto the question. the >thing is, i usually make a blobal variable called request.serverroot which >is the root path of the website, usually this is set to "/". so in my >settings.cfm, in the root directory of the website, i call the cferror tags. >the template path parameter of these tags, i set to >"#request.serverroot#error.cfm". which equates to "/error.cfm", which is >where the error.cfm is, in my root directory. : hmm: As a point of reference, ColdFusion will not look at web mappings, just ColdFusion mappings. My guess is that is your problem. In the ColdFusion administrator, do you have '/' pointing to your server root? What I like to do is set such a variable in a way relative to the root directory: Root directory: / Subdirectory: ../ SubSubDirectory: ../../ Your application.cfm will be like this: set rootdirectory variable Include settings.cfm include header for files in this directory The next question is whether it is a good idea to map '/' to the directory root. If you only have one application, or domain, on the server, then it probably won't be a big deal. If you have more that might be confusing. -- Jeffry Houser | mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Need a Web Developer? Contact me! AIM: Reboog711 | Fax / Phone: 860-223-7946 -- My Books: http://www.instantcoldfusion.com My Band: http://www.farcryfly.com ______________________________________________________________________ Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists