.cfm extension
Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: .cfm extension
The .CFM file is a web page that required to be ran in a web server with ColdFusion server running (http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/ ) You can however open the file in NOTEPAD to view the contents, but to process it and see the FINAL result you need the server installed. Pablo - Original Message - From: Linda Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:14 AM Subject: .cfm extension Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: .cfm extension
Hi Linda, if it is a *real* .cfm file - I mean a file that has been created to contain CFML code - you can use whatever text editor to read it... HTH, Andrea - Original Message - From: Linda Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: .cfm extension Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: .cfm extension
I bet what happened here is this.. The website you downloaded the document from is using cold fusion. The developer didn't specify the correct extension for the document. so basically you have a file that's NOT a coldfusion document BUT DOES have the .cfm extension. The best thing to do is a) look at the website and see what type of file you downloaded, and then rename the extension of the file e.g. you downloaded abc.cfm and is a PDF file. Rename it abc.pdf., and open it. b) if you can't see what type of doc you have, you can't use the file exe to guess what type of file you have The file exe can be downloaded as part of the cygwin.com packages (free). Its a fair bit of work to do this.. WG -Original Message- From: Linda Hagedorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: 07 March 2003 15:15 To: CF-Talk Subject: .cfm extension Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: .cfm extension
dreamweaver, CF studio, homesite or pretty much any other html editing program or any text editor you have, notepad, wordpad, ms word ... - Original Message - From: Linda Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:14 AM Subject: .cfm extension Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: .cfm extension
Welcome, My extension db lists 3 file formats with the CFM extension CFM - ColdFusion template CFM - Visual dBASE Windows customer form CFM - Corel FontMaster file It is most likely that you are correct, and it is a Cold Fusion file. If you downloaded it by going to a web page and using a save as feature from you browser, it is an HTML file with a CFM extension. You should be able to edit it with any text editor (notepad, word) Many developers use a program called Cold Fusion Studio to edit these files, but you shouldn't need to bother with that. When you open it using notepad, you should be able to easily read the text. If this is not the case, email me the file (not to the list, but directly) and I'll see if I can make sense out of it. Good luck, Jerry Johnson [EMAIL PROTECTED] 03/07/03 10:14AM Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: .cfm extension
You are correct in assuming that it is a cold fusion document. However, you will not be able to execute the page unless it is running on a cold fusion server. Were you not able to view the file on the website you downloaded it from? If you want to install a personal version of cold fusion server on your computer, you can go to www.macromedia.com -- products-- cold fusion and downlad a trial/developer version for free. If you are simply wanting to look at the code of the .cfm file, you can open it in WordPad or NotePad. Candace K. Cottrell, Web Developer The Children's Medical Center One Children's Plaza Dayton, OH 45404 937-641-4293 http://www.childrensdayton.org [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] 3/7/2003 10:14:40 AM Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
RE: .cfm extension
Linda: ColdFusion is an application server that allows a website to programmatically create HTML content. The file that you downloaded is almost certainly HTML, simply with a .cfm extension. If you change the extension to .html you should be able to double-click on it and view it in your web browser of choice without any problems. -- Mosh Teitelbaum evoch, LLC Tel: (301) 942-5378 Fax: (301) 933-3651 Email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] WWW: http://www.evoch.com/ -Original Message- From: Linda Hagedorn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 10:15 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: .cfm extension Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: .cfm extension
Linda, To follow on from what Pablo has said; You need to contact the web master/mistress of the site where you downloaded the file. They will be able to help you get the file you were after and fix the problem on their website. Regards Stephen The .CFM file is a web page that required to be ran in a web server with ColdFusion server running (http://www.macromedia.com/software/coldfusion/ ) You can however open the file in NOTEPAD to view the contents, but to process it and see the FINAL result you need the server installed. Pablo - Original Message - From: Linda Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:14 AM Subject: .cfm extension Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: .cfm extension
Linda, I am reading you say that you downloaded the page. By that, I presume that you clicked on a link, and it gave you a save as dialog box? If so, then have you tried changing the extension to whatever extension the file is? For instance, I have an application that, when you click on the link, it wants to save it as TestResults.cfm. If I change the extension to .xls, then it saves in Excel format. I then open Excel, tell it what my delimiters are, then it opens up with no problem. Also, if you can, email me the link to my personal address ([EMAIL PROTECTED]), and I will check it out and see what the format is. Thanks, Bruce - Original Message - From: Linda Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 9:14 AM Subject: .cfm extension Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Your ad could be here. Monies from ads go to support these lists and provide more resources for the community. http://www.fusionauthority.com/ads.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
.cfm extension
I am so impressed with your help and graciousness. I've opened the file and it is html, but says it's supposed to be routing me to another site where the file has been moved. I'll look up the downloads; I'd like to have them on my machine for future use. Your kindness is appreciated. Thank you. Regards, Linda ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Re: .cfm extension
There's a good chance that the file you got is not actually a ColdFusion template (which can usually be edited in any text editor if it's not encrypted (if it is encrypted you'll see the word ColdFusion toward the top, but most of the document will be illegible), or viewed in Internet Explorer or another browser if you change the file extension to .html). There is a quirky behavior of the ColdFusion server in that, on occasion when it is used to provide downloadable files such as Acrobat PDF files, etc. the file name in your save as dialog is not the name of the original file but rather the name of the ColdFusion template which provided the file to you. The file itself is the original Acrobat PDF, Excell spreadsheet, etc. so you would need to find out what format it really is (from the webmaster of the site you downloaded it from) and then rename the file -- and I would make sure the webmaster knows that the downloads on their site are in error and need to be fixed. s. isaac dealey954-776-0046 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 Hi Linda, if it is a *real* .cfm file - I mean a file that has been created to contain CFML code - you can use whatever text editor to read it... HTH, Andrea - Original Message - From: Linda Hagedorn [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, March 07, 2003 4:14 PM Subject: .cfm extension Hello, May I have a minute of your time? Would someone here be able to tell me what application my windows PC should launch to open a file with a .cfm extension? I'm a genealogist and downloaded a court index from Maine. It came with a .cfm extension, and from my searches, it appears that .cfm is for Cold Fusion. If this is not accurate, please excuse me. Any information, referral to manuals or links, etc. is appreciated. Thank you. Linda ___ Join Excite! - http://www.excite.com The most personalized portal on the Web! ~~ ~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index. cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/uns ubscribe.cfm?user=633.558.4 ~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribeforumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
Can a Word or Excel Document be Saved with a .CFM Extension and Retain Word or Excel Properties?
Hi, Is there anyway to save a Word or Excel document with a .CFM extension, to allow insertion and processing of CF logic for file security, but still retain the Word or Excel properties when opening up the .CFM file? I need to upload a number of Word and Excel docs for a customer, and need to provide password protection for the many individuals who will be accessing the documents. My host will provide directory password protection at $5 a person, but I really need something I can control myself. Any ideas? Thanks. JMI Associates P.O. Box 162327 Sacramento, CA 95816 916-457-3465 www.reportpros.com __ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm 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
Nevermind - Can a Word or Excel Document be Saved with a .CFM Extension and Retain Word or Excel Properties?
Nevermind, I figured it out. JMI Associates P.O. Box 162327 Sacramento, CA 95816 916-457-3465 www.reportpros.com __ Signup for the Fusion Authority news alert and keep up with the latest news in ColdFusion and related topics. http://www.fusionauthority.com/signup.cfm 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
RE: Nevermind - Can a Word or Excel Document be Saved with a .CFM Extension and Retain Word or Excel Properties?
Care to share? I'm (almost) always interested to see how other people have tackled the issues they find. Only partly because it's likely I'll run into the same issue some day. -Original Message- From: Jocelyn Isidro [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, August 13, 2002 3:39 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Nevermind - Can a Word or Excel Document be Saved with a .CFM Extension and Retain Word or Excel Properties? Nevermind, I figured it out. JMI Associates P.O. Box 162327 Sacramento, CA 95816 916-457-3465 www.reportpros.com __ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. 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
RE: .cfm extension and URLs
On 5/15/01, Robert Long penned: Tell him to go to www.google.com and type in .cfm and tell you how many records are returned. Hi. He doesn't dispute that .cfm pages can be indexed, only that robots will not follow links with a .cfm extension. -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
.cfm extension and URLs
Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: .cfm extension and URLs
Which search engines? Each one could do it their own way. When I worked in a corporation with a webcrawler, it crawled everything, indexing Word, Excel, PDF, everything. We had to make special efforts to get them to stay OUT of the CFM files. -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 12:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: .cfm extension and URLs Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ...html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: .cfm extension and URLs
easy... do a search on a search engine for known cf sites.. see if they return anything: http://www.atlavista.com/sites/search/web?q=allaire.comkl=XX -- returns CF pages http://www.google.com/search?hl=enlr=safe=offq=barbie+fao -- returns CF pages http://google.yahoo.com/bin/query?p=fao+barbiehc=0hs=0 -- returns CF pages Your search engine guy has got some 'plaining to do! :) Aaron Johnson, MCSE, MCP+I Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer MINDSEYE, Inc. phn617.350.0339 fax617.350.8884 icq66172567 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: .cfm extension and URLs Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: .cfm extension and URLs
Not the best way perhaps but how about just going to a few search engines and do a search on .cfm. Gets hits for me. - Original Message - From: Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:20 PM Subject: .cfm extension and URLs Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: .cfm extension and URLs
Search engines don't care what the extension is... However, some search engines don't spider URL's with query strings and/or omit the query string when processing - There's a custom tag that will allow you to write your urls like this however: http://www.domain.com/path/file.cfm/variable/value/variable/value That WILL get full processed by search engines... Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: .cfm extension and URLs
Bud, Have your client go to Altavista and type in Authentic Country Traditions. Look at the second listing. See if that's not a .cfm file there that you see. Although that site is now defunct (a victim of the .dot com die-off), it was a CF site where every page was a .cfm page and every page was indexed. Go to GOOGLE and type in Appalachian Stories, and you'll see (9th down) that even the .cfm pages that were dynamic, are indexed - those having a ? with a query string. While at GOOGLE, type in Ohio River Bears. Second down you'll see a .cgi page indexed with the query string appended. So, while not all search engines may index URL's with query strings, I know of none that will not index .cfm or .cgi pages. Dave - Original Message - From: Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:20 PM Subject: .cfm extension and URLs Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: .cfm extension and URLs
Your search engine guy has got some 'plaining to do! :) cf_sarcasm Gotta love those search engine guys. In general, they seem so knowledgeable and experienced. /cf_sarcasm While I'm at it. Does any one know how to do a a href to make a link go to a new page? Is this the right list? Brook Davies Maracasmedia Inc. Aaron Johnson, MCSE, MCP+I Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer MINDSEYE, Inc. phn617.350.0339 fax617.350.8884 icq66172567 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: .cfm extension and URLs Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: .cfm extension and URLs
Brook, I assume you mean by make a link go to a new page? you mean a new window? If so . . . A HREF=www.yoururl.com TARGET=_blank LINK TEXT OR IMAGE /A Dave - Original Message - From: Brook Davies [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 7:41 PM Subject: RE: .cfm extension and URLs Your search engine guy has got some 'plaining to do! :) cf_sarcasm Gotta love those search engine guys. In general, they seem so knowledgeable and experienced. /cf_sarcasm While I'm at it. Does any one know how to do a a href to make a link go to a new page? Is this the right list? Brook Davies Maracasmedia Inc. Aaron Johnson, MCSE, MCP+I Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer MINDSEYE, Inc. phn617.350.0339 fax617.350.8884 icq66172567 [EMAIL PROTECTED] -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: .cfm extension and URLs Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: .cfm extension and URLs
Well regardless, if he wants to argue with you, tell him you will make his entire website with .htm and .html extemsions and be done with it. Then you can also charge him more for the extra work it takes, I mean those 2 extra clicks can be a burden sometimes. Robert Everland III Dixon Ticonderoga Web Developer Extraordinaire -Original Message- From: Bud [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:21 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: .cfm extension and URLs Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ...html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: .cfm extension and URLs
hi Suggest to your client that he does a search for 'allaire' on MSN, LYCOS etc then checks out the links. Lots of them end in '.cfm'. Of course search engines do exactly as you say - hence searches for .jpg, .pdf etc work. Just give the guy a chance to think better by trying those things :-) Clients - Duh!!! best wishes John At 15:20 15/05/2001 -0400, you wrote: Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: .cfm extension and URLs
I remember reading this a long time ago. The article said that search engine spiders could get lost in dynamic sites, because as we know potentially a site could have thousands of links, so they didn't index anything with query strings or non html sites. However I think if it was ever true, it certainly isn't today. A quick search for .cfm returned 9.5 million hits even fuseaction which according to his theory wouldn't return any results since every single page on a Fusbox site has a query string returned 690,000 hits. I'd be willing to bet that out of the top 20% of sites on the internet (since they get the majority of the hits) well over half are dynamic these days. I hope he isn't paying this search engine guy a lot of money. jon - Original Message - From: Bud [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: CF-Talk [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, May 15, 2001 3:20 PM Subject: .cfm extension and URLs Hi all. I'm having an argument with a client about the cfm extension. He's got a guy doing his search engine optimization that is insisting that search engines won't follow any extension other than .htm and ..html. I'm telling him the search engines don't care as long as they don't end in .cgi or have a query string in the URL. Am I wrong? Any documentation you can point me to one way or the other? Thanks a bunch! -- Bud Schneehagen - Tropical Web Creations _/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/_/ ColdFusion Solutions / eCommerce Development [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.twcreations.com/ 954.721.3452 ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
changing or masking the .cfm extension
Hey Guys: I has asked this before and somehow lost it. I was wondering how you can change the .cfm extension (running IIS4/5) so that the cf server would parse .html extensions or .whatever extensions. Also, I was wondering how to mask the extension all together so that a file looks like index, instead of index.cfm. --Greg ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: changing or masking the .cfm extension
Off the top of my head I know that you can set a .cfm to act as your default.htm page in your virtual directories. In IIS5 you'd set it up this way. 1.Computer Management 2.Services and Applications 3.Right click Internet Information Services / Properties 4.Select WWW Service from Master Properties 5.Click Edit 6.Goto Documents Tab 7.Here is where you set the possible default documents. HTH E -Original Message- From: Greg Wolfinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hey Guys: I has asked this before and somehow lost it. I was wondering how you can change the .cfm extension (running IIS4/5) so that the cf server would parse ..html extensions or .whatever extensions. Also, I was wondering how to mask the extension all together so that a file looks like index, instead of index.cfm. --Greg ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
RE: changing or masking the .cfm extension
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hi Greg, Specifically, you'd do this: To have CFAS parse .html (or .whatever) 1) Right click on the website in question in the IIS MMC. 2) Go to "Properties" 3) Click on the "Home Directory" tab. 4) Click on "Configuration" 5) Click "Add" 6) You can either browse to the "...\cfusion\bin\iscf.dll" file or type the path to this file in the "Executable" box. 7) type the name of the extension in the "extension" box (ie: .html or .htm or .whatever) 8) Hit ok, ok, and Ok. To mask the extension altogether is another monster.. I've seen urls parsed by cf that look like this: http://someserver.com/somepage.cfm/varname1/varvalue1/ but I haven't heard of a webserver setup so that you can bypass the file name, although obviously it's possible. Aaron Johnson, MCSE, MCP+I Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer MINDSEYE, Inc. phn617.350.0339 fax617.350.8884 icq66172567 [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
Re: changing or masking the .cfm extension
Off the top of my head I know that you can set a .cfm to act as your default.htm page in your virtual directories. In IIS5 you'd set it up this way. Eric: I must have worded my post a little strangely. What I am looking to do is be able to set different file extensions to also be parsed by the cf server. (e.g. If I called whatever.html, it would be parsed by the ColdFusion server just like whatever.cfm would.) --Greg - Original Message - From: "Eric Fickes" [EMAIL PROTECTED] To: "CF-Talk" [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Wednesday, January 03, 2001 12:22 PM Subject: RE: changing or masking the .cfm extension Off the top of my head I know that you can set a .cfm to act as your default.htm page in your virtual directories. In IIS5 you'd set it up this way. 1.Computer Management 2.Services and Applications 3.Right click Internet Information Services / Properties 4.Select WWW Service from Master Properties 5.Click Edit 6.Goto Documents Tab 7.Here is where you set the possible default documents. HTH E -Original Message- From: Greg Wolfinger [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Hey Guys: I has asked this before and somehow lost it. I was wondering how you can change the .cfm extension (running IIS4/5) so that the cf server would parse ..html extensions or .whatever extensions. Also, I was wondering how to mask the extension all together so that a file looks like index, instead of index.cfm. --Greg ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
masking the .cfm extension
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FW: masking the .cfm extension
How would I go about masking the .cfm extension, so it parsed a .html = file or a file without and extension like a cold fusion template? If you are using Win NT/2K and IIS: From the MMC: Right click on your site and select "Properties" Click the "Home Directory" tab Click the "Configuration..." button Click the "Add" button Set the Executable to be x:\cfusion\bin\iscf.dll (where x:\cfusion is where you installed CF) Set the extension to .htm Click OK HTH, Duane Boudreau Director of Web Technologies Ektron, Inc. ~~ Structure your ColdFusion code with Fusebox. Get the official book at http://www.fusionauthority.com/bkinfo.cfm Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/cf-talk@houseoffusion.com/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
