> So I hate to be keeping on about it but I dont understand what a context > is. Do i have one? Why do i want one?
A context root is a URL pattern to which all URLs identified as possibly to be processed by CF will conform. In the vast majority of cases, it's simply a single slash: / which means that every URL will be identified as possibly to be processed by CF. When you set up multiserver, the context root is "/" by default. The purpose of the context root in the larger picture is to let you have multiple J2EE instances on a single web server. Each J2EE instance associated with a single web server has to have a different context root, so that the web server can figure out which one should be processing which request. For example, let's say that I had two apps on myserver.com, and I wanted each of them to be processed by a separate J2EE instance: http://myserver.com/app1/ http://myserver.com/app2/ The context roots for the two instances would therefore be: /app1 /app2 Very few people use context roots with CF, because very few people are trying to run different applications with different CF instances connected to a single virtual web server. But, you might also use context roots to limit which URLs have to be processed by the CF web server module. For example, on the Adobe site, and the Macromedia site before it, for a long time (when they used CF) they used a context root of /cfusion for all the CF files. That way, the web server could easily identify whether files had to be sent to the CF web server module or not. Again, it's unlikely that you're using anything other than the default context root, though - and if you were, you'd know it because you'd have set it up in the first place. > I have a CF9 setup as J2EE which is what most people did for CF9, as I > believe. I don't think most people did that, actually. But maybe they should have! Dave Watts, CTO, Fig Leaf Software 1-202-527-9569 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:358521 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
