Handling 404 errors by Coldfusion
Hi, I'm havin someting weird hapening on mt CF 9 / Windows Web Server 2008 / IIS 7.5 My site is returning an error 404 status when some requested page does'nt exists. For instance http://myDomain.com/index.cfm?p=pageid=21 return normaly page 21 which exists, but http://myDomain.com/index.cfm?p=pageid=999 returns an error 404 since there is no page 999 in the database. This is achieved by the following code: CFIF GetPage.recordCount EQ 0 CFINCLUDE TEMPLATE=/commun/notFound.cfmCFABORT and notFound.cfm contains this: cfheader statuscode=404 statustext=Page not found h3Page not found/h3 BRCFOUTPUTSorry, the requested page does not exists on this site A HREF=http://#cgi.server_name#;#cgi.server_name#/A./CFOUTPUT Now the PROBLEM is that the generated code is displayed AFTER the text generated by the IIS server in case of any 404 error. If I remove the line with statuscode=404, the page is displayed normally. It seems that when CF is returning a 404 response, IIS fells compelled to put it's oar too ;-) The problem does not happen on my development setup, with the same version of CF and IIS. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359038 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Handling 404 errors by Coldfusion
Claude, This should be just a setting that needs to be adjusting in IIS: IIS Manager [Site] Error Pages 404 - Uncheck Insert content from static file in to the error response and/or reconfigure as fits your need. HTH, Jon On Jul 30, 2014, at 2:49 PM, Claude Schnéegans schneeg...@internetique.com wrote: Hi, I'm havin someting weird hapening on mt CF 9 / Windows Web Server 2008 / IIS 7.5 My site is returning an error 404 status when some requested page does'nt exists. For instance http://myDomain.com/index.cfm?p=pageid=21 return normaly page 21 which exists, but http://myDomain.com/index.cfm?p=pageid=999 returns an error 404 since there is no page 999 in the database. This is achieved by the following code: CFIF GetPage.recordCount EQ 0 CFINCLUDE TEMPLATE=/commun/notFound.cfmCFABORT and notFound.cfm contains this: cfheader statuscode=404 statustext=Page not found h3Page not found/h3 BRCFOUTPUTSorry, the requested page does not exists on this site A HREF=http://#cgi.server_name#;#cgi.server_name#/A./CFOUTPUT Now the PROBLEM is that the generated code is displayed AFTER the text generated by the IIS server in case of any 404 error. If I remove the line with statuscode=404, the page is displayed normally. It seems that when CF is returning a 404 response, IIS fells compelled to put it's oar too ;-) The problem does not happen on my development setup, with the same version of CF and IIS. ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359039 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Handling 404 errors by Coldfusion
IIS Manager [Site] Error Pages 404 - Uncheck Insert content from static file in to the error response and/or reconfigure as fits your need. Ok, I've seen that, but the problem is that I still have to give a URL to be executed or Respond with 302 redirect. In fact I just need IIS to do nothing, everything I need is done in my page, I just need to return the 404 status to the browser ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359040 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
Re: Handling 404 errors by Coldfusion
You have two options that I can see: 1) Point the static content option to an empty file (not a very good option for your static content 404s) 2) Remove the 404 handler completely from the Error Pages and use your web.config to handle 404s for static content and pass through existing responses. The following web.config httpErrors example doesnt fire the for 404 handler if an existing response exists (e.g. - one generated by CF): remove statusCode=404 subStatusCode=-1 / error statusCode=404 existingResonse=PassThrough path=/index.cfm/error/not_found responseMode=ExecuteURL / (actually, now that I think about it, you could probably just add the PassThrough attribute to your web.config for the site and it would accomplish what you need to do) A more advanced option, but my personal preference nowadays, is to put NGINX out in front of IIS and let it handle everything for static content. Then just remove the IIS error handlers from the site and let CF handle all of those when the NGINX proxy is in effect. HTH, Jon On Jul 30, 2014, at 3:53 PM, Claude Schnéegans schneeg...@internetique.com wrote: IIS Manager [Site] Error Pages 404 - Uncheck Insert content from static file in to the error response and/or reconfigure as fits your need. Ok, I've seen that, but the problem is that I still have to give a URL to be executed or Respond with 302 redirect. In fact I just need IIS to do nothing, everything I need is done in my page, I just need to return the 404 status to the browser ~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:359041 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
