1) Go into IIS properties for your site and choose the "custom errors" tab.
2) Select the 404 error and choose edit.
3) change the "message type" from file to URL
4) Enter a .cfm page with a path relative to THIS site. So, for example, if you put a "missingFile.cfm" handler in your
root folder you would enter "missingFile.cfm" - or if it was in a folder called Bob it would be "Bob/missingfile.cfm".
This can be quite useful. I use this technique for some subscription sites that wish to create unique URL's for their
client subscribers. After subscribing the user is instructed to use "blah.com/name" (i.e. blah.com/MarySmith). Of
course the directory "MarySmith" doesn't exist so the request is forwarded to my .cfm file handler. The file handler
parses out "MarySmith" and sends the user to a customized page for login or whatever.
A similar trick uses a wildcard entry on a DNS server to allow a user to go to "marySmith.blah.com" - both tricks are
great for sales CRM tools, real estate sites and the like - any place where you want a use to have a "personal website"
but it actually connected to a larger group or site.
-mark
Mark A. Kruger, MCSE, CFG
www.cfwebtools.com
www.necfug.com
http://blog.mxconsulting.com
...what the web can be!
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim McAtee [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Tuesday, March 30, 2004 9:03 PM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: OT: IIS Custom Error Pages in CF?
I'm trying to figure out if I can use a .cfm page (or possibly an .asp
page) for an IIS 5 custom 404 error page. I'm _not_ trying to configure
CF's missing template handler as done through the CF Administrator. That
works fine.
It appears that if you designate a .cfm page for 404 errors (for example:
http://mysite.com/notapage.htm) then the .cfm page doesn't get sent
through the CF engine. Can this behaviour be changed? What about .asp
pages - same problem? I haven't tried that route yet.
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