>> > On Sunday, Mar 30, 2003, at 13:15 US/Pacific, S. Isaac >> > Dealey wrote: >> > > If you do store application settings in xml they >> > > really should be >> > > stored in a .cfm template so that the CF Server will >> > > protect the >> > > data from someone attempting to get at it from typing >> > > a URL into >> > > their browser, >> > >> > Why not put it outside the webroot? >> >> Lots of developers use shared servers where this option >> is >> not generally available. >>
> Even on a shared server you can set the webroot for your > site to > something below your actual app root. There should be no > reason why an > ISP would _not_ let you do this. If your ISP won't let you > use > xxxx\foo.com\web as a webroot and xxxx\foo.com as an app > root, I'd > change ISPs. ;) Well it's really more a matter of not wanting to make assumptions about the possible setup of a customer than anything else. Most shared hosting servers by default sort of dump all your files directly in the web root and when you ftp in to your account, the web root is the highest directory you can access... I wouldn't personally have any problems changing ISP's if I felt like I needed a different setup and the provider weren't willing to make that happen for me, however, I'm not about to make that assumption for an application that I intend to sell just because I don't want to potentially have to tell a customer or potential customer that they have to either "deal with it" or change isp's. As a matter of fact, in spite of all my efforts I had to say roughly that to a customer recently as a result of his large hosting provider disabling cfcontent on their shared servers. Customers hate that. I just hate unhappy customers. ;) s. isaac dealey 954-776-0046 new epoch http://www.turnkey.to lead architect, tapestry cms http://products.turnkey.to tapestry api is opensource http://www.turnkey.to/tapi certified advanced coldfusion 5 developer http://www.macromedia.com/v1/handlers/index.cfm?ID=21816 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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
