Can you put in a site-wide error handler in CF admin? If so that would let you code in pretty much anything you want. I just reroute to the current domain's index.cfm, but there's no reason you couldn't do something more complex/useful.
--Matt Robertson-- MSB Designs, Inc. http://mysecretbase.com -----Original Message----- From: Pete Ruckelshaus [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Monday, May 20, 2002 8:43 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: CF Error pages and redirects for 404 pages Hi, My "challenge of the week" is to provide automated forwarding services to URL's that return a "File not found" 404 error. This would act as a sort of "switchboard" that, whenever a 404 error was encountered, a query would be run against a database for the requested URL, and if there were a "new" URL value for that originally requested page, the user would be redirected there without ever seeing the actual 404 page. Now, in theory, this is how it would work: * Create a database table that holds the values for "old" URL's and the "good" URL's that the old URL's should redirect to * Create a custom 404 page that executes a query of this table each time it's (the custom 404 page) executed. The logic would be something like this... - run query, querying for the "bad" URL value and returning the "good" URL value - If a value is returned, + do a cflocation to the new URL - If a value is not returned + display the 404 page So, here's the first problem I'm running into. I have the following set in my application.cfm: <cfapplication name="redirect_test"> <cferror type="request" template="404.cfm"> Yet, 404.cfm is not displayed; the standard IIS error page is displayed. Also, it's documented that request error pages can't have any CF code in them. Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing something? Is there any way to accomplish what I need to do? Thanks Pete ______________________________________________________________________ This list and all House of Fusion resources hosted by CFHosting.com. The place for dependable ColdFusion Hosting. FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Archives: http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/index.cfm?sidebar=lists
