Gary McNeel wrote: > Essentially, I would like them to be able to go to: > www.somesite.com/theirUserName and it would redirect them their area. If > they went to www.somesite.com/theirUserName/somePhotoAlbum it would redirect > them to a that photoAlbum. > > I know I can look at the URL and pull out the path information, the problem I > can't solve is stopping the server from thinking I want them to go to an > actual Directory vs. hit an index.cfm page and get redirected. The main > issue is that I am in a shared hosting environment with little control over > the backend. This is a Windows CF MX 7 server. >
I've been working on something right up that alley of late - go look at the emails back and forth last week on '"fake" folders'. Trick with my end is, I do have access to the backend - two things I had to do was a) set up a missing template handler in CF admin, and 2) redirect the '404' error in IIS to point to that same missing template handler file, so to catch both 'domain.com/directory/index.cfm' errors (missing template handler) and 'domain.com/directory' errors (IIS 404). You might instead look into SES conversion (i.e. taking the various folders in the path and treating them as variables, and then serving up pages accordingly)... ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Enterprise web applications, build robust, secure scalable apps today - Try it now ColdFusion Today ColdFusion 8 beta - Build next generation apps Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:289321 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
