well I guess I never saw it because I always keep the cfadmin in the default website and lock it down, and always create a copy of the CFIDE without the admin or adminapi for all other sites. So there is always a REAL CFIDE. I have just gone and checked some cf sites on several servers for sanity, and could not access /cfide/administrator/index.cfm on any of them.
On Tue, Feb 5, 2013 at 6:36 PM, Dave Watts <[email protected]> wrote: > > > 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. > > I have seen this many times. Again, as mentioned previously, it's not > at all obvious - you request the URL /CFIDE/Administrator/ and you get > a 404 from the web server, but /CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm gives > you a 200 for the CF Administrator. You can easily tell when this > happens because the images (which are static files not served by CF) > are not displayed. > > > So there must be some.very special.circumstances for that to happen, it > > certainly doesn't happen on a standard windows install. > > The circumstances are not all that special, and happen under the exact > situations I described. If you install CF with the CF Administrator > and do not move or delete it, then you set up a web server without the > CF Administrator, CF will be able to run > /CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm. Again, we typically demonstrate this > in class, so it's fairly replicable. The key is simply to be aware of > servlet mappings and how they work. > > 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:354477 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
