I always thought that cfide being available on a public site was a security
risk, so I have done without, rolling my own as necessary.

Is there a way to have it available and still be totally secure?

On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 7:06 PM, Russ Michaels <r...@michaels.me.uk> wrote:

>
> You do need the CFIDE mapped on your sites if you use ANY of the ajax,
> CFFORM, applets, etc as these need to loads files form the CFIDE, it is
> also
> worth noting that even if you do not map to the master CFIDE on the site
> and
> instead create a copy with only the files you need CF itself still accesses
> the original folder for certain functions. This will probably only affect
> you if you use sandboxing though.
>
> On Sat, Jun 4, 2011 at 11:56 PM, Wil Genovese <jugg...@trunkful.com>
> wrote:
>
> >
> > Look at the mappings in the CF Admin - that tells you and CF where the
> > CFIDE folder is that it's actually using.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > Wil Genovese
> > Sr. Web Application Developer/
> > Systems Administrator
> > CF Webtools
> > www.cfwebtools.com
> >
> > wilg...@trunkful.com
> > www.trunkful.com
> >
> > On Jun 4, 2011, at 5:24 PM, Robert Rhodes wrote:
> >
> > >
> > > I am still grumpy about how 9.01 does not install nicely with IIS7
> > withouth
> > > first installing the IIS compatibility tools.
> > >
> > > But not I am having a new weirdness.
> > >
> > > I usually do not set virtual directories pointing to cfide and cfdocs.
> I
> > get
> > > at the administrator on an admin site that is only available via vpn.
> > >
> > > When I installed the web connector on IIS7, it automatically added
> those
> > > virtual directories to a public facing web site, so I deleted them.
>  But
> > > when you go to the admin login url, the form is still there (but the
> > links
> > > to all the images are broken), and you can actually log into the cf
> admin
> > > from the public site.
> > >
> > > But those virtual directories are really deleted!
> > >
> > > What am I missing here?
> > >
> > > RR
> > >
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
>
> 

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