Andy, I think I know what you are getting at. I will give you an example from a site I work with. A manager can post a new job opening and enter a description using a super-simple CMS. It is just a database entry. No page gets created. However, they can advertise the job as http://www.site.com/jobs/florida-sales-position/.
The way it is set up is, for that specific jobs directory, IIS is configured so that the missing file error handler is a ColdFusion page that has logic to retrieve data from the database based on the URL and display the appropriate job listing content. I didn't set this up, and I don't necessarily recommend it, since it is a pain to maintain if every folder has this type of custom setup. As an alternative, I recommend setting up a site-wide 404 error handler that does what you need to do. This does need to be set up in the Web server, since the pages you are requesting are not cfm pages, so the CF 404 error handler specified in CF admin is not called into action. But it is easier to set up a single 404 error handler for the entire site than to set up one for each directory. You could limit the custom 404 handler to a specific directory if you set up your site with a special base directory, such as www.site.com/r/new-inventory, where "r" secretly means redirect and has special code to handle all the missing files that are detected in that directory. At some point, you will have to configure the Web server. ColdFusion only handles .cfm requests by default, so any missing files with no ..cfm on the end are not handled by CF unless you configure the Web server to pass these off to CF. I see no problem using the 404 handler to do this, as long as you code it correctly. My 404 handlers are usually very involved and correct for most common mistakes and misspellings. Good luck, Mike Chabot ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Create robust enterprise, web RIAs. Upgrade & integrate Adobe Coldfusion MX7 with Flex 2 http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion/flex2/?sdid=RVJP Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:272893 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
