On occasion, I've seen deleted .cfm files continue to work.  I had to 
manually recompile the directory to make them "go away", so I think that 
the compiled form gets cached and not deleted properly.

HTH.

--Ben

Richard Crawford wrote:
> I'm trying to track down a serious bug on our website, which is really 
> starting to annoy me.
> 
> Basic rundown:  We have two servers, a development server and a 
> production server.  The directory structure is identical in both servers 
> (with the exception of some permissions issues which should not be 
> relevant).
> 
> In both servers, there is a form called something like:
> 
> page1.cfm
> 
> In page1.cfm, there is a form which calls, as its action, page2.cfm. 
> Page2.cfm does not exist on either server.
> 
> So why should the form work on the development server and not the 
> production server?  Why should it work at all?  There *is* a page to 
> process the form, called formDo.cfm, but page2.cfm doesn't exist.
> 
> Worse, when I view the source on the processed form after the form has 
> been submitted, the page name is given as page2.cfm, in the same 
> directory as page1.cfm.  The form tag simply refers to page2.cfm, with 
> no directory structure.
> 
> I hope I've made this dilemma clear.  It's really confusing, especially 
> since the developer only tested on the development server and not the 
> production server, so the problem wasn't caught until after we went live.
> 
> Thoughts?  Solutions?  Sympathy?
> 


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