Why not do this ?
page.cfm/abcd/
This works fine and you can simply strip out all the variables after
page.cfm using list functions with a '/' as your delimiter. Each unique
link does get spidered by search engines and it seems to me that it does
exactly the same thing you were doing without the hassle of having a 404
error thrown and then including code. Or maybe I'm missing something
critical in what you want to do?
Andrew Hewitt
Web Application Developer
webworld studios, inc.
www.wwstudios.com
"Okay, who stopped the payment on my reality check?"
-----Original Message-----
From: Darren Tracey [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]
Sent: Monday, April 23, 2001 7:06 AM
To: Spectra-Talk
Subject: Problem hiding Url parameters
I'm having problems using a trick that's been working for me with CF for a
long time now, but just doesn't seem to work with spectra.
I have a spectra site made up entirely of virtual pages being rendered from
one cfm page.
In order to hide the 'messy' url parameters required to specify the page you
want, and to make search engines spider the site, I've always set the
'Missing Template Handler' setting in 'Settings' in the CF admin page to be
a file called 404.cfm, then had it examine the requested script name and set
the correct URL parameters then cfinclude the proper file.
eg.
If I wanted to go to:
page.cfm?id=abcd
I would go to:
page_abcd.cfm
This would cause the 'Missing Template Handler' file to be run, which has
this code:
<cfif left(cgi.SCRIPT_NAME,6) is "/page_" and right(cgi.SCRIPT_NAME,4) is
".cfm">
<cfset url.id = mid(cgi.SCRIPT_NAME, 7, len(cgi.SCRIPT_NAME)-10)>
<cfinclude template="/page.cfm">
<cfelse>
This makes the browser think you're still looking at the page you requested
(which using cflocation won't do), and hides all the working bits.
The file must still end with .cfm or CF won't parse it, and you can't just
change the setting in the Netscape webserver admin to use its 404 error
page, because it won't pass it to CF for parsing.
This has always worked for me with any CF page, but when I use it on a
spectra page it gives this error:
---------------------------
Error Occurred While Processing Request
Error Diagnostic Information
An error has occurred.
HTTP/1.0 404 Object Not Found
---------------------------
It is throwing this error as it hits the cfa_page statement in the page.cfm
file. There is nothing else above this statement, and the same page works
perfectly if you directly call it, or even just change the cfinclude to a
cflocation (and add the url parameter to the page name) however it changes
the URL to the new one, so is of no use.
Anyone got any ideas?
Do I have to abandon this approach and return to using messy Url parameters
and never get my site spidered by a search engine?
Regards
Darren Tracey
Web Developer
Thiess
Australia
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