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.
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