turns out it required a custom 404 page, which runs the whole site, kinda odd. if the old host had a control panel this prob have been much easier to solve :-) another host getting rid of CF sadly .
On Wed, Nov 27, 2013 at 2:21 PM, Jon Clausen <[email protected]>wrote: > > If its a shared host, check the control panel for a default document > setting. Depending on the CP implementation, its possible that there is > some magic happening there that is performing the redirect. Its > possible the the default document has been set as the templates/home.cfm > document. > > If its redirecting without any reference in Application.cfm or a > <cflocation> tag somewhere, then I would check the CP for the setting. > Another off-chance question: Is there an .htaccess file higher up in the > directory structure? Some servers can be configured with the .htaccess > outside of the site root. You might also check the <VirtualHost> directive > for the site, if its Apache, to see if theres an Alias reference. > > HTH, > Jon > > On Nov 27, 2013, at 8:39 AM, Russ Michaels <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > I have a site I am migrating from other host/server which is causing me a > > bit of head scratching. > > when the site loads it redirects to www.domain.com/home.cfm > > > > the issue is that home.cfm file does not exist in the root of the site, > so > > this throws an error on my local copy. > > the only place there is a home.cfm is in a folder called "template". > > So to access this file direct you would have to go to > > domain.com/templates.home.cfm, which I can't do because it references > all > > other files releative tot he root. > > > > the confusion I am having is how it is mapping to this file from the > root. > > Normally I would assume url rewriting but there is no .htaccess or > > web.config file so no where for the url rewrite rules. > > There are no mappings in use, per application or in the cfadmin. > > > > the current site is on a shared server, so it seems very unlikely there > is > > any custom configurations in JRUN, and I cannot get any such info from > the > > host anyway. > > > > Can anyone think of any other way it is mapping to this file/path ? > > > > -- > > > > -- > > > > *Russ Michaels* > > Blog: www.michaels.me.uk > > *skype*: russmichaels > > > > *My other sites/projects* > > > > www.cfmldeveloper.com : ColdFusion/Railo developer hosting > > www.cfsearch.com : ColdFusion search engine > > www.cflive.net : Live CFML console/testing tool > > > > > > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| 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:357222 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
