I used to do all that configuring and adding application.siteroot variables too. But i was finally convinced to learn how to configure sites in apache and now i use the apache web server.
It's improved things vastly. I think its worth the effort to learn how to add sites. It's actually not that big a deal except that i find Apache documentation as arcane as anything in the Unix world. Almost impossible to read. Only a smigeon above Microsoft's support docs on the readability ladder. But once learned, it's now a 30 second job to add a new site, hit the 'Restart Apache" icon on the desktop and the site's running. I have about 40 sites running on my desktop machine. I dont need to reconfigure everything when i change working from one site ot another. I can get to any site and run it just like on the production server - the file layout etc is exactly the same and everything just works. i can use http://dev.mysite or have subdomains that work too just like on the production server, e.g. http://cms.mysite It's a WHOLE lot easier to manage everything and i wish i'd been persuaded to learn how years ago. Plenty of people tried to tell me but i was too stubborn to hear them. My recommendation: Learn how to add sites to Apache. You dont really need to learn all the other features of apache for a dev server so it's not that big a deal. Cheers Mike Kear Windsor, NSW, Australia Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer AFP Webworks http://afpwebworks.com ColdFusion, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month On 5/2/07, Will Tomlinson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >Will, > > > >So what you're saying... is that you're testing a web site that is NOT > >in the root of the web server, but you're trying to use root relative > >paths in URLS for images and stuff? > > No no no!! lol! > > My website is in my built-in webserver's site root. it looks like this > > c:/cfusionmx7/wwwroot/thesite > > So I configure my site settings so it points there for testing pages. > But root relative links don't work when doing this. the image path never > includes "thesite" in the path. > > Makin any more sense here? > > Thangyavurymuch, > Will > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Upgrade to Adobe ColdFusion MX7 The most significant release in over 10 years. Upgrade & see new features. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJR Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:276722 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.4
