I have to say I have never once had that in my 12 years of installing cf servers, if the cfide dir or vdir doesn't exist , then cfide or the administrator doesn't work, period. So there must be some.very special.circumstances for that to happen, it certainly doesn't happen on a standard windows install.
Regards Russ Michaels www.michaels.me.uk www.cfmldeveloper.com - Free CFML hosting for developers www.cfsearch.com - CF search engine On Feb 5, 2013 12:21 AM, "Dave Watts" <[email protected]> wrote: > > >> OK, now that you've done that: CF serves all sorts of pages that don't > >> exist. You may read up in this very thread about CFCHART, which relies > >> on a URL pattern that doesn't exist. CF relies on servlet mappings, > >> which may or may not correspond with actual URLs. Typically, they do, > >> but there are some specific URL mappings that are created by default > >> when you install CF, and one of them is /CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm. > >> Another is /CFIDE/Main/ide.cfm - this is another file that doesn't even > >> exist by default. > > > > I understand that under special circumstances like CFChart it serves > pages > > that don't exist. But in the scenario I outlined where CFIDE mappings > have > > been re-pointed to a folder that does not carry the administrator folders > > and the web server provides a Virtual directory to the very same > duplicated > > CFIDE folder, I fail to see how it would ever serve the content from the > > administrator and adminapi folders... > > In a nutshell: > - client requests /CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm > - request is immediately passed to CF by the web server - this happens > before the web server tests for the existence of a file at that URL > - CF looks at its list of servlet mappings, and finds one for > /CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm > - CF looks on the filesystem for where it expects to find this file, > based on where these files were placed during the initial install > - if the file is there, it's executed > > So, let's say you install CF without hooking it up to a web server, > then later hook it up to IIS. In that case, CF will initially use the > built-in web server, and create the file > c:\coldfusion9\wwwroot\CFIDE\Administrator\index.cfm. When you hook up > the web server, the web root might be c:\inetpub\wwwroot, and you may > have created your own CFIDE directory there without the Administrator > subdirectory, so that the directory c:\inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE exists > but the file c:\inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE\Administrator\index.cfm does > not. Nevertheless, CF will execute the file > c:\coldfusion9\wwwroot\CFIDE\Administrator\index.cfm when you ask it > for http://your_IIS_web_server/CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm even > though a request for http://your_IIS_web_server/CFIDE/Administrator/ > returns a 404 - the second URL doesn't match an explicit servlet > mapping. > > Alternatively, let's say you install CF and hook it up to your default > IIS server. In that case, CF will create the file > c:\inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE\Administrator\index.cfm. Then, you might > create a new IIS virtual server, and set its web root to > c:\inetpub\otherserver\. You'd still have the same problem, as CF > would still be able to resolve to the original location of the file. > > We actually go through this in our "Administering ColdFusion 9" course > as it's a fairly common configuration mistake. > > http://training.figleaf.com/courses/administering_coldfusion.cfm > > Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software > http://www.figleaf.com/ > http://training.figleaf.com/ > > Fig Leaf Software is a Veteran-Owned Small Business (VOSB) on > GSA Schedule, and provides the highest caliber vendor-authorized > instruction at our training centers, online, or onsite. > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:354297 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
