RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-23 Thread Bruce Sorge
: RE: Is this the best approach? Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. IIS doesn't use .htaccess. Apache uses it. And in any case, .htaccess isn't designed for redirects, it's an authentication mechanism. You can use mod_rewrite

RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Bruce Sorge
PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? As an alternative to dynamically creating/managing directories and copying code into them, here is what I have done in the past. Each time a sweepstake is added, modified or deleted, we

RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Bruce Sorge
Disregard. I am using Windows and apparently .htaccess does NOT work in windows. Fuc**ng Microsoft. Bruce -Original Message- From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1:28 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? As an alternative

RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Watts
Disregard. I am using Windows and apparently .htaccess does NOT work in windows. Fuc**ng Microsoft. ? If you're using Apache on Windows, you can certainly use Apache's authentication mechanism: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/howto/auth.html

RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Bobby Hartsfield
: Thursday, February 22, 2007 4:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Is this the best approach? Disregard. I am using Windows and apparently .htaccess does NOT work in windows. Fuc**ng Microsoft. Bruce -Original Message- From: Ryan Stille [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 1

RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Bruce Sorge
I am not using Apache. I am using IIS because that is what my customers are using. -Original Message- From: Bobby Hartsfield [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 7:38 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: RE: Is this the best approach? It's Microsoft's fault that .htaccess

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Oğuz Demirkapı
Check this out: http://www.troxo.com/products/iispassword/ Bruce Sorge wrote: I am not using Apache. I am using IIS because that is what my customers are using. -- Oğuz Demirkapı TeraTech Inc. | Senior Developer 405 East Gude Dr Suite 207, Rockville, MD 20850, USA Voice: +1 (301)

RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Bruce Sorge
Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. -Original Message- From: Oğuz Demirkapı [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? Check this out

RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Dave Watts
Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. IIS doesn't use .htaccess. Apache uses it. And in any case, .htaccess isn't designed for redirects, it's an authentication mechanism. You can use mod_rewrite in Apache, or ISAPI_Rewrite

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Oğuz Demirkapı
: Thursday, February 22, 2007 8:34 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Is this the best approach? Check this out: http://www.troxo.com/products/iispassword/ Bruce Sorge wrote: I am not using Apache. I am using IIS because that is what my customers are using. -- Oğuz

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-22 Thread Oğuz Demirkapı
Dave Watts wrote: Thanks but I do not want to use IIS password protection. I wanted to use a ..htaccess page for redirects. IIS doesn't use .htaccess. Apache uses it. Default doesn't. But there are tons of 3rd party tools to use .htaccess logic and files with IIS. And in any

RE: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread Adkins, Randy
Perhaps a start and end date to the Sweepstakes. Just at first glance. -Original Message- From: Bruce Sorge [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, February 20, 2007 4:10 PM To: CF-Talk Subject: Is this the best approach? I have been tasked by one of my customers to create an on-line

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread Bruce Sorge
Damn. That would be a good feature to have. Thanks. On 2/20/07, Adkins, Randy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps a start and end date to the Sweepstakes. Just at first glance. ~| ColdFusion MX7 and Flex 2 Build sales

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread Ryan Stille
As an alternative to dynamically creating/managing directories and copying code into them, here is what I have done in the past. Each time a sweepstake is added, modified or deleted, we recreated a .htaccess file in the root directory that sets up redirects for each sweepstake. So

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
Before you get too far into your sweepstakes coding, I would suggest that you have your client check with his attorney, if he hasn't already done so, to be sure that the details of what he intends to do are legal. I'm not any kind of expert in this area but I have heard of sweepstakes going

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
Before you get too far into your sweepstakes coding, I would suggest that you have your client check with his attorney, if he hasn't already done so, to be sure that the details of what he intends to do are legal. I'm not any kind of expert in this area but I have heard of sweepstakes going

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
Ryan's right, and I'll go so far as to say what he's described to you is a *much* better way to create new sweepstakes. Think about it: once you start creating a bunch of subdirectories and copying .cfm templates into them, at some point in the future you may find yourself maintaining them all

Re: Is this the best approach?

2007-02-20 Thread K Simanonok
A couple of other thoughts: 1) Separate landing pages for each sweepstakes gives you the opportunity to name them with keywords to benefit your clients' SEO. So http://mysite.com/sweepstakes/win-a-2008-mustang.cfm is significantly better in Google's eyes than

RE: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach

2007-01-15 Thread Paul Vernon
I know you could probably write a couple of books on this subject but I thought I'd just ask for people's experiences and find out what they found to be the best way of managing their code and servers. We install an SVN client (Tortoise) on the servers and all our sites are deployed to the

Re: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach

2007-01-15 Thread Tom Chiverton
On Monday 15 January 2007 12:27, Paul Vernon wrote: via the update processes. +1 'svn switch' rocks ! -- Tom Chiverton Helping to adaptively initiate third-generation services This email is sent for and on behalf of Halliwells LLP.

Re: Managing Multiple Instances - Best Approach

2007-01-15 Thread Jochem van Dieten
James Buckingham wrote: I thought I'd do a bit of asking around as I don't seem to be able to find much about this online. I'm curious about how others manage things like updates, testing and release management on a daily basis across multiple instances of CF running on more than one