Cf 404 error handling in shared environment

[Newsgroup_User]

Hi -

My sites in a hosted environment and I want to control 404 dead bad links
and the page that is served to users. Being on a IIs web server i can
naturally create custom pages and set within my hosting control panel a html
custom page.


This is fine for html pages 404 like
www.mysite.com/thispagedoesnotexist.html

but what's the easit way to handle cfm page dead links and get around the
default (yucky) cfm error page that is displayed by the CF server.
www.mysite.com/thispagedoesnotexist.cfm


On all my CF pages i have error handling that catches any error (database,
etc) emails me the details and presents a custom page. Naturally because the
entered .cfm page in question does not exist, obviously 404's wont get
catered for by this error handling.

Any help appreciated.

[Newsgroup_User]

check out onMissingTemplate() method of Application.cfc
more details are in the cfml ref manual and cf dev guide.

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[Newsgroup_User]

yeah nice fetaure, but i'm in a shared environment without access to the CF
adminitstrator.

"Azadi" <azadi@sabai-dee.com> wrote in message
news:glb11q$chu$1@forums.macromedia.com...
> check out onMissingTemplate() method of Application.cfc
> more details are in the cfml ref manual and cf dev guide.
>
> Azadi Saryev
> Sabai-dee.com
> http://www.sabai-dee.com/

[Newsgroup_User]

you DO NOT need access to CF Admin for this at all!

all you need is to use Application.cfc (instead of Application.cfm) and
add <cffunction name="onMissingTemplate"><!--- code to handle missing
files ---></cffunction> to it.

you can download the CF Dev Guide pdf (and CFML Reference) from
adobe.com - they have full details on how to use Application.cfc.

there are also numerous blogs with good examples of Application.cfc
usage. check out Ray Camden's blog ( http://www.coldfusionjedi.com/) for
a sample Application.cfc file and, i think, Ben Nadel
( http://www.bennadel.com/) has some good onMissingTemplate() method
examples, too.

Azadi Saryev
Sabai-dee.com
http://www.sabai-dee.com/