Actually, I suppose I earn the "Doh!" award for the day. I could have
sworn we created that mkwebdir.vbs script from scratch, but apparently
modified said sample. My bad!
Thank you for the correction.
Dave
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David M. Delbridge
Circa 3000
ColdFusion Hosting
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Dave Watts wrote:
>
> > You're absolutely right, Dave. The hosting customer would
> > need not only access to CFExecute, but would also need to
> > publish a mkwebdir.vbs or similar script as this is NOT
> > included in the Microsoft-provided samples.
>
> Actually, mkwebdir.vbs is provided in the AdminScripts directory by
> default.
> I just used it this week as the starting point for a script that adds
> a
> virtual directory for all virtual servers.
>
> > I suspect that any such custom VBS scripts could be run from
> > the hosting customer's own space, being that scripting
> > permissions are already there for the CF templates.
>
> This will depend on the rights of the CF service, I think. By default,
> the
> CF service runs as SYSTEM on Windows, and would have rights to use
> ADSI to
> modify IIS. However, in a shared hosting environment, I'd hope that
> the CF
> service would run as a much less privileged user, and in that case
> would not
> have rights to modify IIS.
>
> Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software
> http://www.figleaf.com/
> voice: (202) 797-5496
> fax: (202) 797-5444
>
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