William, For the second part of your question (URL rewriting) there are two ways you can do it.
Firstly you can redirect _all_ requests (including 404s) to a default page - let's say index.cfm - and let that page decide what to do with the request, based on the URL passed in. For example if the URL is /directory/1/2/3/ then you could parse your way through that URL. What the URL rewrite does is send the request to the web server in a different way. I don't use ISAPI rewrite since I've got Apache running (mod_rewrite being the equivalent) but most of the time it works something like this: Public-facing URL: http://david.low.me.uk/category/railo/ URL rewritten and sent to web server behind the scenes: http://david.low.me.uk/index.cfm?category=railo It can be done a lot more complicated than that, but that's the basic idea. URLs are rewritten based on a set of rules supplied. Hope that's of some use... David 2009/1/2 William Seiter <will...@seiter.com>: > Thank you very much, I will use your suggestions today for the 404 issues. > > Can anyone give any ideas on the directory masking? > > William > > -----Original Message----- > From: Chuck [mailto:h...@coldfusionguru.com] > Sent: Thursday, January 01, 2009 5:51 PM > To: cf-talk > Subject: RE: directory masking > > Yes, I have done this before. > > You want to go into IIS and change the file that the 404 errors are pointing > to. > > In IIS: > > Right click on the website you want and go to properties. The go to the > Custom Errors Tab. Scroll down in the errors and you want to change 404, > 404;2 and 404;3. Select one and click the edit button. Next change the > Message type to URL and in the URL textbox you want to put a relative URL to > the site, like this "/404Handler.cfm" with no quotes. Make this change for > all 3 and you are good to go. > > Chuck > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:317332 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
