> Anyone know how to set up a virtual folder in CFMXs > standalone web server?
Myabe worth a go if nothing else works, from the SitePoint TechTimes: ------------------------------------------------------------------- NTFS Junctions: Symbolic Links for Windows Web developers who work with Linux systems have long enjoyed the convenience of symbolic links. Often work with the document directory of your Web server? Create a symbolic link to it in your home directory so you can work with it as if it were part of your home directory structure. Need to share a file across several Web sites? Create a symbolic link to the file in the directory structure of each one. With this simple but powerful feature, any file or directory on the system can be several places at once. You'd think Microsoft would have hopped on this bandwagon by now! As it turns out, they have -- at least for directories. NTFS, the preferred file system for Windows 2000, XP, and the upcoming Server 2003, supports a feature called junctions that allows you to set up an empty directory so that it actually points to another drive or directory on the system. For example, you could make C:\CDROM\ point to E:\, so that any file in E:\ or its subdirectories would appear to exist also in C:\CDROM\ (or a subdirectory thereof). The ability to create junctions that point to drives was intended as a work-around to the 26-drive-letter limit that exists on Windows systems. To do this, open Control Panel, Administrative Tools, Computer Management and select Disk Management under storage. Right-click on any Windows-accessible partition and choose Change Drive Letter and Paths.... Click Add, and choose Mount in the following empty NTFS folder to make the drive available at that location. You can then remove the drive letter from the partition, freeing it up for use by another drive. Far more useful is the ability to link one directory to another. For example, I keep all my MP3 music files in D:\Profiles\Kev\My Documents\My Music\. A particular program that I wanted to point at my MP3 directory could not handle directory names with spaces, so I wanted to make the same files available from C:\MP3\. NTFS is perfectly capable of doing this, but it turns out that Microsoft want to make you buy the Windows 2000 Resource Kit (a fairly expensive set of documentation and tools for Windows system administrators) to get the utility -- called 'linkd' -- that lets you create such links. Mark Russinovich to the rescue! He has created a freeware utility called Junction that does the same job [ http://www.sysinternals.com/ntw2k/source/misc.shtml#junction ] -- and I daresay it's better than Microsoft's offering! After placing this program in your Windows directory, creating the directory junction described above is a matter of a simple two-liner at the command prompt: C:\> mkdir mp3 C:\> junction mp3 "d:\Profiles\Kev\My Documents\My Music\" Note that the version of NTFS included in Windows NT does not support junctions. ------------------------------------------------------------------- Tim. ------------------------------------------------------- RAWNET LTD - Internet, New Media and ebusiness Gurus. Visit our new website at http://www.rawnet.com for more information about our company, or call us anytime on 01344 393 040. ------------------------------------------------------- Tim Blair Web Application Engineer, Rawnet Limited Direct Phone : +44 (0) 1344 393 441 Switchboard : +44 (0) 1344 393 040 ------------------------------------------------------- This message may contain information which is legally privileged and/or confidential. If you are not the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any unauthorised disclosure, copying, distribution or use of this information is strictly prohibited. Such notification notwithstanding, any comments, opinions, information or conclusions expressed in this message are those of the originator, not of rawnet limited, unless otherwise explicitly and independently indicated by an authorised representative of rawnet limited. ------------------------------------------------------- -- ** Archive: http://www.mail-archive.com/dev%40lists.cfdeveloper.co.uk/ To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For human help, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
