I had this very "problem" when creating one of the Websites I used to own. IIS doesn't pass directory requests through to ColdFusion, so you will have to do some handling in your custom 404.
In your 404.cfm, look at the CGI.HTTP_REFERER value. It will contain 404; and some other stuff. The other stuff is what you want to parse to determine where the user was going. I have some code somewhere, which I might not be able to dig up until this evening if you would like it. Thanks, Paul Paul Day Principal / Developer 410.241.8465 [email protected] http://www.nucomsolutions.com/ ---------------------------------------- From: "Matthew P. Smith" <[email protected]> Sent: Wednesday, August 11, 2010 7:12 AM To: "cf-talk" <[email protected]> Subject: getting path of not existent directory I am trying to use a custom 404 to serve more se friendly pages. Using application.cfc, I can properly serve this page, using the onMissingTemplate method: domain.com/art/paintings-21/index.cfm I am parsing the path obtained from #arguments.template# to get the key(21) and display the page by calling /404.cfm with the template info. I am having trouble doing the same with this, though: domain.com/art/paintings-21/ It does not seem to invoke the onMissingTemplate method, and rather calls /404.cfm directly. So in the CGI scope, I have: SCRIPT_NAME=/404.cfm PATH_INFO= How can I access the "/art/paintings-21/" to get the info I need? I would like the page displayed for both: domain.com/art/paintings-21/index.cfm domain.com/art/paintings-21/ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology-Michael-Dinowitz/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:336183 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
