In theory, yes. However, I'm not sure how Plesk and IIS get along together. To the best of my knowledge, there is no way to override the home directory of an IIS site except through something like IIS 6 admin tools scripts. It won't play nearly as nicely as the apache config. Unless you can lock down IIS, but I don't think that's possible. I can look into this tomorrow, however.
Matthew Williams Geodesic GraFX www.geodesicgrafx.com/blog Greg McNary wrote: > Just curious, would a similar approach work for windows hosting? I've > been wanting to give Farcry a try, but haven't had time to experiment > with it in a shared hosting environment. > > Thanks, > > Greg > > Greg McNary > Macromedia Certified Coldfusion Developer > Web Development for the Small Enterprise > www.mcnary.net > > > > Matthew Williams wrote: > >> First, just a little "this is WHY we do this" (and only a little, I >> promise!). Everyone seems to get a touch freaked out when going over >> the FarCry install and its various mappings. The thing to keep in >> mind is that the mappings and folder structure exist because FarCry >> relies heavily upon CFCs and extension of these CFCs. Even your site, >> eg. "Project", relies upon being able to map to these CFCs in a >> preordained fashion. The easiest way to pull this off is to have >> everything reside inside the main FarCry root. >> >> Now, that was the 3.0 and lower builds. FarCry 4.0 introduced the >> ability to have the "Project" folder reside completely separately from >> the FarCry core. Or, at least that's my understanding from the new >> features document. I've not tried this with 3.x (but I do have >> another method for that!) Anyway, if this is done, you must make sure >> that you create a CF mapping to these files in a way that FarCry can >> reach them. Since FarCry assumes that the "Project" folder resides in >> the FarCry root, you need to make a CF mapping that imitates that. >> Thus, you need to make the normal CF mapping for FarCry (something >> like /farcry c:\farcry40) and a mapping to your site, pre-pending >> farcry to it (/farcry/somesite c:\websites\somesite). This mapping >> MUST match what you called the site when installing FarCry. So, a >> call to farcry.somesite.whatever will work correctly. All is good >> with the universe. >> >> So let's do an example of this for FarCry 4.0 and the linux shared >> host out on the interweb using Plesk. >> >> 1. Upload FarCry (and all of it's supporting libraries farcry_core, >> fourq, farcry_lib) to one of your domains httpdocs directory. Doesn't >> matter which, really. One you know will not be deleted. Ever. >> eg /home/httpd/vhosts/mainsite.com/httpdocs/farcry40 >> 2. Ask the CF admin of your box to create a CF mapping like: >> /farcry /home/httpd/vhosts/mainsite.com/httpdocs/farcry40 >> 3. Upload the mollio template (renamed to somesite) to the domain that >> will be hosting a FarCry site: >> /home/httpd/vhosts/somesite.com/httpdocs/somesite >> 4. Ask the CF admin of your box to create a CF mapping like: >> /farcry/somesite /home/httpd/vhosts/somesite.com/httpdocs/somesite >> 5. Now, this is really, REALLY handy. Ask the CF admin to create a >> vhost.conf file for your somesite domain. This file will never be >> over written by Plesk and can be used to override the values Plesk >> sets. The file should contain: >> DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/vhosts/somesite.com/httpdocs/somesite/www" >> Alias /farcry /home/httdp/vhost/mainsite.com/httpdocs/farcry40/ >> farcry_core/admin >> 6. Create a database to hold your FarCry information, and ask the CF >> admin to create DSN pointing to this database >> 7. Once Plesk gets restarted, browse to www.somesite.com/install and >> fill in the values as required. App name in this case is "somesite", >> and the project web mapping and farcry web mapping should not be >> changed. Click install once all fields are complete >> 8. Repeat per domain as necessary. Make sure everyone and every group >> can write into the FarCry plp and tmp directories. >> >> Now let's do an example of this for FarCry 3.1 and the linux shared >> host out on the interweb using Plesk >> >> 1. Upload FarCry (and all of it's supporting libraries farcry_core, >> fourq) to one of your domains httpdocs directory. Doesn't matter >> which, really. One you know will not be deleted. Ever. >> eg /home/httpd/vhosts/mainsite.com/httpdocs/farcry31 >> 2. Ask the CF admin of your box to create a CF mapping like: >> /farcry /home/httpd/vhosts/mainsite.com/httpdocs/farcry31 >> 3. Upload the mollio template (renamed to somesite) to the farcry31 >> directory: >> /home/httpd/vhosts/mainsite.com/httpdocs/farcry31/somesite >> 4. Now, this is really, REALLY handy. Ask the CF admin to create a >> vhost.conf file for your somesite domain. This file will never be >> over written by Plesk and can be used to override the values Plesk >> sets. The file should contain: >> DocumentRoot "/home/httpd/vhosts/mainsite.com/httpdocs/farcry31/ >> somesite/www" >> Alias /farcry /home/httdp/vhost/mainsite.com/httpdocs/farcry31/ >> farcry_core/admin >> 5. Create a database to hold your FarCry information, and ask the CF >> admin to create DSN pointing to this database >> 6. Once Plesk gets restarted, browse to www.somesite.com/farcry/install >> and fill in the values as required. App name in this case is >> "somesite", and the project web mapping and farcry web mapping should >> not be changed. Click install once all fields are complete >> 7. Repeat per domain as necessary. Make sure everyone and every group >> can write into the FarCry plp and tmp directories. Make sure everyone >> and every group can read farcry directories. >> >> Matthew Williams >> Geodesic GraFX >> www.geodesicgrafx.com/blog >> >> On Feb 9, 3:13 pm, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >> >>> Well! That makes you a most excellent and helpful fellow. Thank you >>> very much--your time and energy is very appreciated. >>> >>> On Feb 9, 2:00 pm, Matthew Williams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>> wrote: >>> >>> >>> >>>> I am planning to write up how to do this, and post it in the wiki >>>> (really! I'm just a bit strapped for time...), however I'll post a >>>> reply on exactly how to do as you want later this evening. I do this >>>> over at Hostnexus with almost the exact same setup. >>>> >>>> >> >> >> > > > > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "farcry-dev" group. To post to this group, send email to farcry-dev@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/farcry-dev?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
