[thelist] WAS thelist digest- NOW CF tip addition

nagrom morgan at morgankelsey.com
Wed May 22 10:11:03 CDT 2002


 .jeff,


> <tip type="ColdFusion" author=".jeff">
>
> don't mess with the "check that file exists" checkbox for the .cfm file
> extension on the iis site if you're using any cfgraph functionality.  if
you
> do you'll get nothing but broken images or flash movies where graphs
should
> be.  that's because cfgraph makes a call to /CFGraphingPage.cfm passing
> parameters to drive the type and style of graph that's displayed.
>
> don't bother searching for a CFGraphingPage.cfm template on your server.
it
> simply doesn't exist.  i suspect that the coldfusion server simply looks
for
> this request and executes a built-in jrun process to answer it.  however,
if
> iis checks to see if a file exists before handing it to coldfusion, then
it
> will obviously fail (since it doesn't exist in the requested path or at
all,
> for that matter) and never get passed on to coldfusion.
>
> </tip>

also, if you are trying to use this style of querystring for some reason:

/press.cfm/pr/31/

(reasons aside, lets just say you're unfortunate and aren't using a *real*
directory style querystring for some reason)

having the 'check that file exists' box checked for.cfm pages will return a
404 for those urls as well.
(for the same reason you stated, iis cant figure out the filename correctly,
so it fails)


nagrom
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