Yeah, guess you're right . . . damn, hate it when I'm on the road and the
brain stays at work . . . :) . . . but your point makes sense, what is the
difference between a mapping and setting a variable? Really none . . .
<cf_drinksanotherbeer> . . . or maybe not . . . haha . . . anyone else on
cf-talk down at the Motorola Developer's Conference?
Dan
-----Original Message-----
From: Peter Theobald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 9:33 PM
To: Dan Haley; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: RE: CF Administrator Mapping and Apache Alias
Kinda' makes mapping useless in this particular case.
Yes, I could use the cgi.server_name to figure it out. That works for me.
At 09:11 PM 8/14/00 -0700, Dan Haley wrote:
><cf_untested confidence_level="90%">
>How about this . . . set up three CF mappings . . . includes_prod,
>includes_test, and includes_dev . . . or names of your choice, of course! .
>. . and then in your application.cfm set a variable to the appropriate
>mapping depending on the cgi.server_name . . . <cfset
request.includemapping
>= "/includes_prod"> . . . and then you would include the right file . . .
><cfinclude template="#request.includemapping#/myfile.cfm">
></cf_untested>
>
>Dan
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: Peter Theobald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 6:59 PM
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: RE: CF Administrator Mapping and Apache Alias
>
>
>Well, in this case I have:
>1) a live production site
>2) a staging/testing site
>3) a development site
>
>All as virtual server on one physical server. In Apache I can map virtual
>directories so each site has a different images directory for example. But
>in the Cold Fusion Administrator I cannot map different INCLUDE roots for
>each virtual site. I store my libraries of CF modules in a directory that I
>want to use absolute references to for convenience and security. But I
>cannot have developers working and testing on these libraries if I cannot
>map different directories for the live, staging, and development virtual
>servers. They all share ONE directory!
>That means back to relative paths or setting up two more servers :-(
>
>
>At 07:04 PM 8/14/00 -0700, Dan Haley wrote:
>>Short answer - yes.
>>
>>Long answer - Think of physical directories under the web root and virtual
>>directories set up in the web server (thinking of IIS here) as directories
>>to be used in HTML, such as <a href=""> and <img src="">. Think of CF
>>mappings as only available to CF code, such as <cfinclude> and <cfmodule>.
>>In fact, in <cfinclude> and <cfmodule>, if you want an absolute reference
>>(starting with "/"), then you can only use CF mappings. Without CF
>mappings
>>you must use relative references ("../../", etc.). One nice thing about
CF
>>mappings is you can move included CF files out of the web root and then
>>noone can access them via the browser . . . it makes security easier.
>>
>>HTH,
>>Dan
>>
>>-----Original Message-----
>>From: Peter Theobald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 5:35 PM
>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED];
>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>Subject: RE: CF Administrator Mapping and Apache Alias
>>
>>
>>How about virtual servers?
>>If I set up a CF mapping, for instance: /includes =
>/home/httpd/html/docs/www.thissite.com/includes
>>Then do *ALL* sites on that server get the SAME include (to the wrong site
>in most cases).
>>
>>
>>At 07:09 PM 8/14/00 -0400, Peter Theobald wrote:
>>>So you are saying it does not affect URL requests at all, right?
>>>It only affects CFINCLUDE?
>>>
>>>Your example can't be right. You are using the mapping as a variable
>"#foo#/SomeTemplate.cfm"
>>>If that were right, I wouldn't need mapping at all. I would just set a
>variable.
>>>It must be more like this:
>>>
>>>MAP /cflib = /usr/home/coldfusion/library/peter
>>>
>>><cfinclude template="/cflib/myfile.cfm">
>>>
>>>
>>>At 06:56 PM 8/14/00 -0400, Jeremy Allen wrote:
>>>>All mappings do is create an alias for a phsyical directory...
>>>>
>>>>like say if you wanted an absolute reference for CFINCLUDE
>>>>
>>>>you could make a mapping named Foo which points to
>/usr/home/cftagman/cftags
>>>>
>>>>And say you had a lot of templates in /usr/home/cftagman/cftags then you
>>>>could use
>>>>
>>>><CFINCLUDE Template="#foo#/SomeTemplate.cfm"> and Sometemplate.cfm
>>>>would of course be in the D:\CFStuff directory.
>>>>
>>>>Thats all :)
>>>>
>>>>Its purely CF driven and referenced with CF basically its a nice
>>>>way to map out the absolute location for something. of course
>>>>NT machines start with drive letters ;) So I would say that a
>>>>that the Apache alias takes higher precedence than the CF
>>>>Mapping.
>>>>
>>>>Jeremy Allen
>>>>[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>[Insert cool title here]
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>-----Original Message-----
>>>>From: Peter Theobald [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
>>>>Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 6:38 PM
>>>>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>>>>Subject: CF Administrator Mapping and Apache Alias
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>What exactly does CF Administrator mapping do?
>>>>Does it map URLs as they come in, in other words it affects ALL http
>requests even to .html files?
>>>>Or does it map URLs that are to .cfm files?
>>>>Or does it only affect CFINCLUDE?
>>>>
>>>>How does it interact with Apache directory "Alias" mapping?
>>>>
>>>>I want to map certain directories for images and cfm files. I also want
a
>different set of mappings for my CF library of includable "functions" so I
>can use <cfinclude template="/cflib/mymodule.cfm"> although that file is
NOT
>located under my document root.
>>>>
>>>>
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