Adam, I've never seen that method, but wow, that's cool.

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On Tue, Jun 2, 2009 at 1:11 PM, Adam Tuttle <[email protected]> wrote:

> Chris is correct, you can't do it in ColdFusion without the use of apache's
> mod_rewrite or an IIS equivalent (like this: http://www.codeplex.com/IIRF)
>
> The reason this is required is that the web server application (apache,
> iis, etc) doesn't know to hand the request off to the application server
> (ColdFusion) unless it sees that you're using a .cfm or .cfc file extention.
>
> So that said, it actually KIND OF can be done...
>
> One way that people have gotten around this is to append ".cfm" to the end
> of the url and handle the fact that the file/folder doesn't exist in
> Application.cfc's onMissingTemplate.
>
> So, using that method, your example url would have to become:
>
> http://www.domain.com/aboutUs.cfm
>
> Or, perhaps in a more complicated system:
>
> http://www.domain.com/entries/tagged/modelglue.cfm
>
> You wouldn't have folders entries/tagged, nor a file "modelglue.cfm" in
> that non-existant folder, but instead, you look at the requested URL in
> onMissingTemplate, and handle the request accordingly.
>
> Make sense?
>
> Adam
>
>
> On Mon, Jun 1, 2009 at 12:55 PM, Chris Peterson <[email protected]>wrote:
>
>>
>> Yes, you need to make use of Apache's mod-rewrite or an IIS equivalent to
>> have the web server re-write the request such that the index.cfm is added
>> before it gets passed to coldfusion. I do not believe there is a way to do
>> it solely within coldfusion without making use of one of those tools.
>>
>> Chris Peterson
>>
>>
>>
>> On 6/1/09 12:28 PM, "RC" <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> >
>> > Hi,
>> >
>> > Is there a way to drop the index.cfm from SES URL's in MG3?
>> >
>> > So instead of:
>> > http://www.domain.com/index.cfm/aboutUs
>> >
>> > it would be:
>> >
>> > http://www.domain.com/aboutUs
>> >
>> > Thanks for any help.
>> >
>> > >
>>
>>
>> >>
>>

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