Thanks Adrian. Another one of those "slap the forehead" moments DER!!
I ran expandpath() on the sound files in question and the path to the site
wasn't quite what i thought it was.
Problem solved, and files now downloading happily and all my analysis is
working too. Thanks to everyone for th
Have you got the right path to the file? Are you hardcoding the path or is
it generated dynamically? ExpandPath() or GetCurrentTemplatePath()?
Ade
-Original Message-
From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 03 January 2006 15:19
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Tracking downloads of mp3
Mike,
Another possible issue to consider, is the production server Windows or
Linux?
A Linux machine will be case sensitive to file and folder names, and
won't allow spaces either. Another simple test you might (and probably
should) use: fileexists(string path). The 'file' attribute of the
cf
: CF-Talk
Subject: Re: Tracking downloads of mp3 files
Thanks for your suggestion Deanna. We should be using sandbox, but arent.
I only lease a part of this box, dont own it so I dont have a lot of
control over that part of things, but I'm assured that CFContent isnt
disabled at all. (Whichi
Thanks for your suggestion Deanna. We should be using sandbox, but arent.
I only lease a part of this box, dont own it so I dont have a lot of
control over that part of things, but I'm assured that CFContent isnt
disabled at all. (Whichi is a whole 'nother issue, but for now all I'm
wanting to
Does your shared host use sandbox security? That could be a gotcha with
cfcontent.
What's the error your'e getting?
On 1/3/06, Mike Kear <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>
> EXCEPT .
>
> It didnt work on my production machine. A shared host.At first I
> figured we had CFContent disabled, but
I tried Matt's method of using CFContent to serve the files to the user, and
worked just like a charm - on my dev machine. I was able to not only do
what I needed, and keep good stats and log of activity, but do some other
cool stuff too like have the pages fed from a database instead of a static
Couldn't you also pull that from the server logs?
Eric
On Mon, 2 Jan 2006 05:42:50 -0800
Matt Robertson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Use cfcontent to push the files to them. Then you can
>work whatever
> tracking code you want into the picture.
>
> http://mysecretbase.com/How_To_Display_Prot
instead of a direct link to the file ... eg.
http://www.mysite.com/music.mp3
add a url variable to a link to a download processing template. .. eg...
http://www.mysite.com/download.cfm?mp3ID=#filename or some identifier#
then you can use the url value to record the download in your database
th
Use cfcontent to push the files to them. Then you can work whatever
tracking code you want into the picture.
http://mysecretbase.com/How_To_Display_Protected_Files.cfm
--
--mattRobertson--
Janitor, MSB Web Systems
mysecretbase.com
You could also look at the server logs if you don't mind a delay in the
reporting.
Ade
-Original Message-
From: Mike Kear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 02 January 2006 13:22
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Tracking downloads of mp3 files
I have a site where I have a series of mp3 files for radio
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