RE: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Andy Matthews
I'm curious...why do you want CF to read txt files? andy -Original Message- From: Brian McCairn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, November 05, 2007 5:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files Tried this with CF8, stopped and started the ColdFusion 8

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Brian McCairn
for me it was just a marketing idea thing, for instance pages on a fan site for Liverpool Football club could have the file extension .lfc, or a Manchester United site could have the file extension .rubbish ~| ColdFusion 8 -

RE: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Andy Matthews
That's a fun idea. liek I said it was just curiousity...nothing more. -Original Message- From: Brian McCairn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files for me it was just a marketing idea thing

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Brian McCairn wrote: Tried this with CF8, stopped and started the ColdFusion 8 Application service but I'm getting: Server Error What is in your *-out.log? Does it work if you access the build in webserver? Jochem ~|

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
I'm curious...why do you want CF to read txt files? Check robots that read robots.txt or not. It would be much easier than collecting, reading and parsing IIS logs. Unless someone has a better idea? -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread gary gilbert
Hi Brian, You can have CF process any file ending you want you just have to register it in IIS (if you are using IIS) so that IIS passes the files ending with the type you specify off to the CF server. On my server its C:\ColdFusion8\runtime\lib\wsconfig\1\jrun.dll Its in IIS under websites,

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
In web.xml map *.txt to the CfmServlet. Ah ok, thanks, I will try. -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See http://www.contentbox.com/claude/customtags/tagstore.cfm (Please send any spam to this address: [EMAIL PROTECTED]) Thanks.

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
I'm curious...why do you want CF to read txt files? Check robots that read robots.txt or not. It would be much easier than collecting, reading and parsing IIS logs. Unless someone has a better idea? -- ___ REUSE CODE! Use custom tags; See

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Cutter (CFRelated)
- From: Brian McCairn [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2007 8:37 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files for me it was just a marketing idea thing, for instance pages on a fan site for Liverpool Football club could have the file extension .lfc

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
Not sure I would try it with a standard file type like .txt or .ini though. That could create some confusion... The only confusion could be when a .txt file contains CF tags that should not be executed, very unlikely. Otherwise, the txt file will be just passed to the client transparently. --

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Cutter (CFRelated) wrote: Back when I was doing Corporate Support with a regional ISP (4.5 days) we used to do this with .inc files (which were included via cfinclude) within a home rolled CMS. We also did it with an Article manager for an online magazine using .art file extensions. We were

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-06 Thread Claude Schneegans
Nowadays it is a 2 step process. Not only do you have to tell IIS to send it to JRun, you also have to tell JRun to send it to the CfmServlet (or the FileServlet, or ...). That is why you need the aditional mapping in web.xml. IMHO, this is what is going wrong with CF since CFMX. I mean, the

Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-05 Thread Claude Schneegans
Hi, I'm trying to get IIS (Windows XP) to read .txt files through CF, just like .cfm or .cfml. So I defined the same configuration for .txt extensions as for .cfm. It works under CF 5, but with CF 7 all I get is an empty page. Is there any other setting necessary in CF itself in order to get it

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-05 Thread Jochem van Dieten
Claude Schneegans wrote: I'm trying to get IIS (Windows XP) to read .txt files through CF, just like .cfm or .cfml. So I defined the same configuration for .txt extensions as for .cfm. It works under CF 5, but with CF 7 all I get is an empty page. Is there any other setting necessary in CF

Re: Reading .TXT files as CF files

2007-11-05 Thread Brian McCairn
Tried this with CF8, stopped and started the ColdFusion 8 Application service but I'm getting: Server Error Either the Macromedia application server(s) are unreachable or none of them has a mapping to process