Thanks for the clear up both Tom and Mark.. I have forwarded to our developers
as well as some partners for whom we were doing some porting. I missed that in
the documentation. 40 lashes with a wet noo.. :-)
Larry
At 10:15 AM 4/9/2001 -0400, Tom Jordahl wrote:
>Hi All,
>
>Let me clear this up:
>
>1. As Mark noted, custom tags in the current directory must be in all lower
>case. This is prevent a whole bunch of disk searching when looking for
>custom tags. The isn't any fast method to search a Unix file system in a
>case insensitive way.
>
>2. The custom tags in the 'system wide' directory are discovered in a
>different way. At startup, ColdFusion walks the directory an creates a map
>of tag custom tag names to filenames. In this case, the filename can be any
>case and CF will map it to the correct (case insensitive) tag name.
>
>It is a little confusing, but it is consistent.
>
>--
>Tom Jordahl
>MacroMedia Server Development
>
>
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Mark Woods [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 4:57 PM
>To: CF-Linux
>Subject: RE: CF Linux Dependencies and Case Sensitivity
>
>
>Not the behaviour I have experienced.
>
>I have custom tags which are stored in the current directory for a calling
>template, but it seems they must be lowercase (as per the docs). Strangely
>enough though, custom tags in the custom tags directory can be mixed case.
>
>We have had problems when moving custom tags into the custom tags directory
>when they have previously been in the current directory for a calling
>template (they way we work for testing - permission reasons). When the tag
>is moved from the current directory to the custom tags directory, whatever
>way CF caching works, the calling template does not realise the tag has
>been moved and just barfs with a cannot find module type error. This does
>not happen on windows (as far as I recall anyway).
>
>We're running CF 4.5.1 SP2 on redhat 6.2
>
>
>Mark
>
>At 08:52 PM 4/8/01, you wrote:
> >I thought I would add one other thing. On Linux custom tags must be in the
> >Custom Tags directory and not in the current directory with a calling
> >template.
> >
> >Documentation says they can be but not under Linux. This relates to 4.5
> >through
> >SP2. No comment on 5.0 beta. :-)
> >
> >Larry
> >
> >At 03:32 PM 4/8/2001 -0400, bananachunks wrote:
> > >....and don't use cfinsert or cfupdate. And custom tags that are called
>by
> > >CF_{tagName} need to be in the Custom Tags directory. Cfmodule and
> > >cfinclude are fine. Application.cfm and OnRequestEnd.cfm have to be
>spelled
> > >and cased in that manner. No lazy Windows application.cfm and
> > >onrequestend.cf. And cfexecute is actually useable in Linux because of
>all
> > >of the command line proggies available to the OS...
> > >
> > >geo
> > >
> > >-----Original Message-----
> > >From: Damon Cooper [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
> > >Sent: Sunday, April 08, 2001 2:45 PM
> > >To: CF-Linux
> > >Subject: CF Linux Dependencies and Case Sensitivity
> > >
> > >thought I'd try to set the record straight on the last few emails that
>hit
> > >this list:
> > >
> > >- ColdFusion on Linux has NO dependency on ChiliSoft or any other 3rd
> > >party/translation/interpretation layer. ColdFusion on Linux is a native
> > >Linux C/C++ web application server, processing page requests natively.
> > >We've done some significant tuning and optimization work in CF5.0, by the
> > >way. Compared with CF 451 SP2, performance, scalability and memory
> > >footprint will completely blow your socks off. We're in Beta 3
>now...sign
> > >up at http://beta.allaire.com/bart for more details. We can talk on the
> > >Beta Forums under NDA.
> > >
> > >- Case sensitivity is a Unix-thing for file names, as is the
>"forward-slash"
> > >("/") vs the backwards-slash ("\") for Windows. So if you refer to a
> > >server-side include template file as "Foo.cfm", it needs to be called
> > >"Foo.cfm" on the disk, rather than "foo.cfm". The Windows OS's don't
>care.
> > >Unix cares. That's all we're talking about. Not a CF-thing.
> > >
> > >thanks!
> > >
> > >
> >
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