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You may want to expand upon your motivations, Damian, as it could influence
what the best solution may be. 

For instance, if it's about not wanting to dynamically generate pages that
are otherwise static (except perhaps for some header or footer that's
INCLUDEd), you could consider CFCACHE instead. That dynamically saves the
CFM page output as a .HTM file which CF then serves it up statically in
response to requests for the original .cfm file, for whatever duration you
indicate. 

With that approach, the file is still requested as a .cfm file. You may
instead not like that the files are requested as .cfm files (there used to
be issues with search engines not liking dynamic page filetypes, though
that's less an issue now). But even then, you could "fake out" the spider by
asking your web server to map .htm file requests to .cfm. Of course, if you
have lots of "real" static htm files, there's then a penalty in processing
them needlessly through CF. But you could instead leave them as .htm and map
the cfm's to be handled as .html files instead. All that, of course, then
also requires that you change any code inside your app to change from
requests for .cfm files to either .htm or .html. You have to weight that
cost.

Or maybe you want to put the "site" on a CD. That would be very different,
and there are still other solutions. If the site just generates volumes of
static pages, the CFHTTP approach Rich mentioned could work. But if the site
has dynamic pages (forms, etc) then that's clearly not enough. In such an
instance, an alternatives could be to keep it CFML but get a license to run
the code off a CD, which while CF doesn't offer such, BlueDragon and others
do. 

But I've just guessed at a few possible motivations. Yours may be entirely
different. 

/Charlie
http://www.carehart.org/blog/  

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Subject: [CF-Dev] Converting dynamic site into flat pages

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Happy New Yeeah all ;)

I'm wondering whether there are any tools to convert a dynamically generated
CF website into flat htm... ??

Cheers,
d

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