I've been writing CF since version 1, but have always been behind corporate
firewalls or on dedicated servers. Now I'm working on a public site on a
shared server and have a question that seems pretty basic to me, but I can't
figure out the answer.
 
To make a site more maintainable we use include files for headers, footers,
navigation panels, etc.  In the past I have always been able to use this
notation to get to a file on the root directory regardless of what directory
the included file was called from: <cfinclude template="/header.cfm"> With a
dedicated server that is not a problem. The problem is that the techs that
work on the shared server say that this notation is not a "relative" path
and cfinclude requires a relative path or a CF Admin mapped path. I asked if
they could map "/" to the web root of our site and they said they cannot
because of the shared status. I've tried several other techniques without
success.
 
I looked up the CF Docs and they say that "/header.cfm" is a relative path.
When I try it, though, it throws an error about using relative or CF mapped
paths in cfinclude. Has anyone got a relatively simple solution to this
problem? I hate to have multiple copies of a header, footer, or navigation
file because that defeats the purpose.
 
Thanks,
 
Loyd Campbell
Plano, TX
 
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