My hosting company controls the CF Server administration mapping. SInce
they share the CF server with many other website domains, they won't be
creating mappings like "/" to my web root. If my domain was the only one on
their server (dedicated server) then I could have them do this.
Thanks for responding.
Bruce
----- Original Message -----
From: "Chad Gray" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 8:52 AM
Subject: Re: Absolute Path Usage
> Im jumping into the middle also, but have to tried adding a mapping in the
> CFadministrator?
>
> I had to use a path for some CFCINCLUDES that went 3 or 4 folders deep,
and
> it works great!
>
>
>
> At 08:51 AM 9/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
> >See below...
> >
> >----- Original Message -----
> >From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:30 AM
> >Subject: Re: Absolute Path Usage
> >
> >
> > > I didn't see the original post, so I'm jumping in the middle.
> >..
> > > The way I do this is by setting a variable ( Either to the local
scope
> >or
> > > the request scope ) in the application.cfm called DirLevel:
> > >
> > > Root: Dirlevel = ""
> > > Sub1 Direvel = "../"
> > > SubSub1: Dirlevel = "../../"
> > > Sub2 Dirlevel = "../
> > >
> > >
> > > When you create your include, make all the paths relative to the
root
> > > directory and add dirlevel in there.
> > >
> > > <A HREF="#dirlevel#index.cfm">Home</A>
> > > <A HREF="#dirlevel#sub1/page1.cfm">Page 1</A>
> > > etc.. etc..
> > >
> > > This makes it easy, and I do it all the time.
> > > One potential problem is that you'll need different application.cfm
for
> > > each directory.
> >
> >This technique may be useful in some cases, although I'm not sure that
it's
> >worth it. I'll probably just stick to hardcoding the ../../ etc levels
in
> >each CFINCLUDE statement.
> >Thanks for the tip!
> >
> > >
> > > >I have tried a variety of absolute paths and find none that work. If
> >anyone
> > > >can shed some light on this...my host shares the CF server so asking
them
> >to
> > > >configure a mapping for "/" is not going to happen since it would
only
> >work
> > > >for my domain and not for all the other domains they host.
> > >
> > > You can always get to the exact root directory (I.E.
www.mysite.com/ )
> > > by using the slash. So the code I wrote above could easily be
re-written
> >like:
> > >
> > > <A HREF="/index.cfm">Home</A>
> > > <A HREF="/sub1/page1.cfm">Page 1</A>
> > >
> > > And the browser sees the '/' and automatically adds it to the end of
the
> > > url, such as www.mysite.com/index.cfm for the first link. Try it; It
> > > works. However, if the root directory of your application is not the
root
> > > directory of your server, that won't work.
> >
> >It may work for <A HREF> but not for <CFINCLUDE template=> tag. That is
the
> >whole point of my discussion. CFINCLUDE is very picky...it appears it
ONLY
> >sees relative paths or paths specified in the server mapping file.
That's
> >IT! How I wish it recognized "/" as the web root, meaning the
placeholder
> >or representative location for http://www.mydomain.com/.
> >
> >Bruce
> >
>
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