Im jumping into the middle also, but have to tried adding a mapping in the
CFadministrator?
I had to use a path for some CFCINCLUDES that went 3 or 4 folders deep, and
it works great!
At 08:51 AM 9/25/2001 -0700, you wrote:
>See below...
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: "Jeffry Houser" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: "CF-Talk" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Sent: Tuesday, September 25, 2001 11:30 AM
>Subject: Re: Absolute Path Usage
>
>
> > I didn't see the original post, so I'm jumping in the middle.
>..
> > The way I do this is by setting a variable ( Either to the local scope
>or
> > the request scope ) in the application.cfm called DirLevel:
> >
> > Root: Dirlevel = ""
> > Sub1 Direvel = "../"
> > SubSub1: Dirlevel = "../../"
> > Sub2 Dirlevel = "../
> >
> >
> > When you create your include, make all the paths relative to the root
> > directory and add dirlevel in there.
> >
> > <A HREF="#dirlevel#index.cfm">Home</A>
> > <A HREF="#dirlevel#sub1/page1.cfm">Page 1</A>
> > etc.. etc..
> >
> > This makes it easy, and I do it all the time.
> > One potential problem is that you'll need different application.cfm for
> > each directory.
>
>This technique may be useful in some cases, although I'm not sure that it's
>worth it. I'll probably just stick to hardcoding the ../../ etc levels in
>each CFINCLUDE statement.
>Thanks for the tip!
>
> >
> > >I have tried a variety of absolute paths and find none that work. If
>anyone
> > >can shed some light on this...my host shares the CF server so asking them
>to
> > >configure a mapping for "/" is not going to happen since it would only
>work
> > >for my domain and not for all the other domains they host.
> >
> > You can always get to the exact root directory (I.E. www.mysite.com/ )
> > by using the slash. So the code I wrote above could easily be re-written
>like:
> >
> > <A HREF="/index.cfm">Home</A>
> > <A HREF="/sub1/page1.cfm">Page 1</A>
> >
> > And the browser sees the '/' and automatically adds it to the end of the
> > url, such as www.mysite.com/index.cfm for the first link. Try it; It
> > works. However, if the root directory of your application is not the root
> > directory of your server, that won't work.
>
>It may work for <A HREF> but not for <CFINCLUDE template=> tag. That is the
>whole point of my discussion. CFINCLUDE is very picky...it appears it ONLY
>sees relative paths or paths specified in the server mapping file. That's
>IT! How I wish it recognized "/" as the web root, meaning the placeholder
>or representative location for http://www.mydomain.com/.
>
>Bruce
>
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