RE: [ cf-dev ] IIS Config Problem

[Mark Smyth]

Title: Message

Hi Paddy

 

I'm a bit surprised thats working, even on the dev machine. 

 

Why don't you

1. get the data you need

2. use cffile to create a Excel (or CSV) file

3. then use cfcontent to serve the file automatically to browser

 

I think this will give you a more stable application. I just get the feeling you'll keep running into problems trying to get it working the way you are the moment and it might not even be IIS causing the problem.

 

If you are determined to get it working the way you have on your development machine, you could always try adding .xls to IIS's application mappings (in the application configuration section)  of your  website, setting the excutable path to jrun.dll, but that is just an idea.  Although it might work, I personally wouldn't recommend it.

 

hth

Mark

-----Original Message-----
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: 12 July 2004 12:57
To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: [ cf-dev ] IIS Config Problem

Hi ,

I've got a page that downloads results to Excel, but in order to work around some client issues to persuade their machines that they were getting a spreadsheet, I used a dummy file name on the end of the URL, i.e. index.cfm/filename.xls.

This works fine on my development machine, but is not running on the new server I am currently setting up. IIS is not picking up that I am calling index.cfm and hence it trying to call filename.xls instead of passing the request to CF.

I can't remember how this was resolved previously. Anyone got any pointers?

TIA

paddy

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