Site-wide Error Handler -CF Admin cannot insert error.cfm

[emmim44]

Hi all, even though my cferror.cfm file location is recognized by cf admin. The cf admin is not able to call the error file when there is an error... I am using MX 7.2... Any help appreciated...

[Guest]

I do something similar, calling the site-wide error page and emailing me the error info. How are you outputting the error itself? Are you sure it exists once CF loads the site-wide error page?

[emmim44]

here is my sample cferror...CF admin says "backgroundcolor" is undefined...

<cftry>
<cfcatch type="any">
<cfswitch expression="#cfcatch.type#">
<cfcase value="template"><cfset backgroundcolor = "lightsteelblue"></cfcase>
<cfcase value="expression"><cfset backgroundcolor = "blanchedalmond"></cfcase>
<cfcase value="database"><cfset backgroundcolor = "linen"></cfcase>
<cfdefaultcase><cfset backgroundcolor = "darkkhaki"></cfdefaultcase>
</cfswitch>
</cfcatch>
</cftry>
<cfset chop = len(GetBaseTemplatePath()) - 9>

<cfoutput>
<div style="border:solid 1px green; background : #backgroundcolor#;">
<h2>THE REQUESTED PAGE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE... PLEASE RE-VISIT IN APPROXIMATELY 30 MINS. </h2>
</div>
</cfoutput>

<cfinclude template="footer.cfm">

[Guest]

I'd guess the cfcatch isn't actually being called? In your cfcatch type="any" block put in some text like "I failed!" instead of setting any variables, see if it gets displayed when an error happens. I usually check for the existence of cferror because calling any values inside of it.

[ilssac]

How does backgroundcolor get set if there is not an error?

You are setting a variable inside the catch block of a try-catch exception handerler then trying to use that variable later, after the catch block.  Thus if no error orrcurs in the <try> block, which has no code in your example so no error can occur, no variable is getting set.

[emmim44]

I am little lost... can you guys be more specific? How to resolve the issue?

[Dan_Bracuk]

Move the code where you display an error message inside your cfcatch block.

[ilssac]

<cftry>

Any code here will be watched for exceptions, but there is nothing here, so there is really nothing that can ever throw an exception.

<cfcatch type="any">

Code here will be run ONLY if there is an exception thrown in the above section.

<cfswitch expression="#cfcatch.type#">
<cfcase value="template"><cfset backgroundcolor = "lightsteelblue"></cfcase>
<cfcase value="expression"><cfset backgroundcolor = "blanchedalmond"></cfcase>
<cfcase value="database"><cfset backgroundcolor = "linen"></cfcase>
<cfdefaultcase><cfset backgroundcolor = "darkkhaki"></cfdefaultcase>
</cfswitch>
</cfcatch>

This code will set a variable named 'backgroundcolor' if it is run which will only happen if there is an exception in the watched code at the beginning of the try block.

</cftry>

This is the end of the try block.

<cfset chop = len(GetBaseTemplatePath()) - 9>

<cfoutput>
<div style="border:solid 1px green; background : #backgroundcolor#;">
<h2>THE REQUESTED PAGE IS TEMPORARILY UNAVAILABLE... PLEASE RE-VISIT IN APPROXIMATELY 30 MINS. </h2>
</div>
</cfoutput>

This code will be run wheter there is an excpetion or not.  But it is relying on a variable that is only set if there is an exception, and there is no code in inside the <cftry>...</cftry> block so there is pretty much NO chance of anything ever throwing an exception.

[emmim44]

Thank you all.