You can place them within a folder reachable by a mapping. I'd suggest using mappings anyway, since it will also help you call your custom tags on a shared server.
======================================================================= Raymond Camden, ColdFusion Jedi Master for Mindseye, Inc Member of Team Macromedia Email : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Blog : www.camdenfamily.com/morpheus/blog Yahoo IM : morpheus "My ally is the Force, and a powerful ally it is." - Yoda > -----Original Message----- > From: Ian Skinner [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, March 12, 2003 9:08 AM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: CFC's - Where to put them? > > > I have just started a real project using CFC's, and I have > had some difficulties with where to put them. So I'm turning > to the knowledgeable group here to full in the gaps in the > documentation. The best home for a CFC seems to be the > Custom Tag directory, when I've put them there on my > development machine, they were accessible everywhere I needed > them. But, my first project is going to live on a hosted, > shared server at a web hosting company. I don't have ready > access to the Custom Tag directory on this box. As an > alternative, according to my understanding of the > documentation, a CFC can live in the website root, or any > directory accessible from it. This works - sort of. If I > put the CFC in the root, all other CFM files in the root can > access it, but files in subdirectories of the root can not! > I actually had to put a copy of the CFC in each folder in > order for it to be accessible to files in that folder. > > This, obviously, is not very desirable. What I would like to > know, am I missing something here? Is there some way I can > use, or someplace I can put my CFC file where it is > accessible by all my files in all my directories of my > website? Other then the Custom Tag folder, which I already > know works, but would like to not use, if possible. > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
