hehehe I shouldn't laugh but I spent two days on the same thing in a
spectra app. The worst part was it was in the update handler for a
publishing rule. The update handlers aren't output to the page, so you
can't see what's going on. And due to the obtuse way spectra has of calling
tags and pages it was embedded deeply within all kinds of other things.
Eventually I ended up writing a file after almost every line of about 6
similar templates, until I discovered what it was. At that point I resisted
the urge to cry and I went home...
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-----Original Message-----
From: Russ Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Thursday, 15 February 2001 12:05 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: RE: I ThOuGhT I wAs GoInG CrAzYyYyY!!!!!!!!!
Thats funny!! I suffered from the exact same thing today on a new app I am
working on. It took me about 1.5 hours to write the circuit and another 3
to figure out why nothing would appear when the page was called.
My comment was an inliner right before the actual html started in the fuse
so I wasnt getting an error or anything! Just a blank page with some
debugging stuff!
The woes of software development!!
-----Original Message-----
From: McCollough, Alan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Wednesday, February 14, 2001 6:17 PM
To: Fusebox
Subject: I ThOuGhT I wAs GoInG CrAzYyYyY!!!!!!!!!
Okay, it's now FOUR HOURS after I got stopped by a mystery bug, and I'm
gonna need a triple dose of Rogaine...
Here was the problem...
I'm working on a fusebox app, when suddenly, the request scope stops
working! My app bombs out immediately at index.cfm, with the message:
"Error resolving parameter REQUEST.WEBSITE_DIR
The object WEBSITE_DIR is not present in the scope named REQUEST. It is
likely that you have misspelled the name of the object you are trying to
access"
This particular variable simply points out the current path, and has worked
forever. I use this everywhere. I use the request scope everywhere!
So I start debugging. I test. I rename stuff. I restart CFAS. I check out
IIS. I recreate virtual directories. I check client variables, I add in an
application.cfm, I take out application.cfm
AN' YOU KNOW WHAT THE STINIKIN' PROBLEM WAS????????
In my app_globals.cfm template, I had an improperly bracketed comment. It
opened with <!--- and it closed with -->. Note the closer has only 2
hyphens, while the opener had three hyphens. The cruel joke here is that it
should have been obvious. CF Studio colors it as a comment.
SoOoOo, learn from my suffering, you fusedoc'ers ! You gotta bracket those
comments right!
Argh, harumph.... maybe I should have installed that hatten_ar_bin tag; it
might have helped...
Alan McCollough
Web Programmer
Allaire Certified ColdFusion Developer
Alaska Native Medical Center
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