CommonSpot does something similar.  They have a stub file that contains the
meta data and a link to the actual page content, thereby masking those
horrible parameter URLs.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Mickael [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] 
Sent: Friday, August 12, 2005 8:59 AM
To: CF-Talk
Subject: Gateway Pages and IIS

Hi All,

I am hoping that someone on this list has worked through this before I
reinvent the wheel.  We have a small content management system that we have
written that allows users to make changes to their site.  We would like to
add a new feature where users can create gateway for marketing.  
When our users create a new page on our system the URL ends up being
www.ourdomain.com/index.cfm?pageid=111 (or what ever number).  Our issue now
is that we would like to make pages that easier to read and print on
advertising.  So for example if they create a page that is connect to
Marketing they would like to be able to access that page via
www.domain.com/marketing

The only way that I can see this working is to create an interface in my CMS
that would create a new folder in the webroot of thier choosing and insert
an index.cfm file in at folder with a <cflocation> tag point ing to
index.cfm?pageid=111 or whatever the url.

This solution would work, but would create a ton of folders in our webroot,
and we also have our own folders for the app there as well.  My question is
there a more elegant way of handling this problem?  We have played with the
idea of adding an Intelligent 404 page but part of the goal is to have their
stats package also track the accesses to these pages.

I was just wondering what other people are doing?  We are Using IIS as a web
server.

Thanks




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