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[pixiesfb]

Hi,

Say I give someone a URL like

http://www.mysite.com/cats.

I'd like to capture the word &quot;cats&quot;, which I know I can do with something like <cfset urlcode=GetToken(cgi.path_info,3,&quot;/&quot> (although I havn't tested it yet).

The problem is that I don't want to set up any new directories because I plan on having many of these &quot;trailers&quot; that I want to grab.

Any ideas are appreciated!

 

[CFDude]

I am not sure what you are wanting to do, but are you looking at being able to provide a url such as

http://mydomain/somedir

and have that url go to a specific page, but not have to create a directory on the server?

If so, there is a tag in the developers exchanage called cf_plainurl that will convert a &quot;path&quot; like url to a query string url

http://devex.macromedia.com/develop...347737-2830-11D4-AA9700508B94F380&method=Full

There is also one on the fusebox site that does the same thing.

HTH,
Tim P.

 

[pixiesfb]

Mmmm,

I'm attempting to just capture &quot;cats&quot;, then perhaps redirect to the domain.

I tried doing this in application.cfm, but it wasn't happy.

I checked out that custom tag, but can't get it to work. Perhaps a simple modification is all I need but I couldn't get it.


Here is the custom tag:

<!--- this script translates the following URL format into URL variables --->
<!---

http://mydomain.com/directory/script.cfm/variable_name.expression/variable_name.expression

--->

<cfloop list=&quot;#removeChars(cgi.path_info,1,len(cgi.script_name))#&quot; delimiters=&quot;/&quot; index=&quot;variableSet&quot;>
<cfscript>
variableName = &quot;url.&quot; & listGetAt(variableSet,1,'.');
expression = listGetAt(variableSet,2,'.');
</cfscript>
<cfparam name=&quot;#variableName#&quot; default=&quot;#expression#&quot;>
</cfloop>

 

[shammack]

If all you want to do is capture the word &quot;cats&quot;, try this

<cfset x = ListLast(&quot;

http://www.mysite.com/cats&quot;,&quot;/&quot;)>

x should equal cats.

 

[shammack]

Oops! I put an extraneous semicolon in there. The correct syntax should be this.

<cfset x = ListLast(&quot;

http://www.mysite.com/cats&quot;,&quot;/&quot;)>

 

[pixiesfb]

Yes, capturing is the easy part.

Check out

http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/article.cfm?id=388

and

http://www.sys-con.com/coldfusion/source.cfm?id=388

for the CF_FakeURL custom tag.

The hard part is that you get a 404 error because &quot;cats&quot; is recognized as a directory, (which does not exist).

To fix the prob, go into IIS, choose your virtual dir/ properties/ custom errors tab/ URL, (specify URL).

You should also go to the Virtual Directory tab/ Configuration button/ App Mappings/ .cfm/ check the &quot;Check if file exists&quot; checkbox.

This solves the problem. However, it is not an attractive solution to me because these settings would be made on a co-lo server and we won't have complete control.

Sooo, right now I am stuck with a much less sexy solution of providing a URL like

http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm?MyID=cats

instead of something slick like

http://www.mysite.com/cats.

 

[tleish]

What about using something like

http://www.mysite.com/index.cfm/cats

- tleish

 

[pixiesfb]

No, same problem, thinks it's a directory.

 

[tleish]

Really? I've been able to effectively use this method on IIS and apache. What error do you get? - tleish