CFLOCATION and Directory level

[smartino]

Hi, I have a cfm page that has a flash movie inside it.

In the flash movie I use GETURL to redirect to another cfm page which i'll call page2 for this explanation. Inside page2 I have a cflocation tag that finds a cfm page two levels up the directory chain and I'll call this page page3. The code I us to go up 2 levels is ‘../../page3.cfm’ but the error I get back from CF is that CF trying to find page3 in the same directory as page2.

Can anybody give me a pointer on why and how to solve this.

Thanks in advance for any help.

Cheers Simon

[Dan_Bracuk]

If relative addressing does not work, try absolute addressing.

[CF_N_Montreal]

Agreed. Start from the root and you can't go wrong with that.

[sean69]

I like to set an application variable in my application file and just set everything "absolutely" from there.

application.ServerRoot = "#Replace(GetCurrentTemplatePath(), "/Application.cfm", "", "all")#";

it works quite nicely.

[Newsgroup_User]

Bare in mind that the URL in the <cflocation> tag is relative to the URL of
the request (and each relocate is a new request), and does not -
necessarily - have any bearing on the relative filesystem paths between the
file with the <cflocation> tag in it and the target of the <cflocation>
tag.

It doesn't sound - from your description - that this is your problem, but
it's worth being mindful of.

Why are you bouncing "through" page2.cfm, only to end up going to page3.cfm
instead?

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Adam

[BKBK]

What you wish to achieve should be possible if your code and path structure is something like

code <cflocation url="page2.cfm"> in
C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\dir1\dir2\pageContainingFlashMovie.cfm

code <cflocation url="../../page3.cfm"> in
C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\dir1\dir2\page2.cfm

C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\page3.cfm

However, if instead you have

C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\pageContainingFlashMovie.cfm
C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\page2.cfm
C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\dir1\dir2\page3.cfm

then the code you should use in page2.cfm to redirect to page3.cfm is
<cflocation url="dir1/dir2/page3.cfm

[smartino]

Thanks for all your replys,

Dan and CF_N_Montreal I’ve done that and that seemed to work.

Sean69, I have used GetCurrentTemplate and other Directory code in the past. I think I should continue using this where I can.

Adam, the reason I’m bouncing through page2 is that it has a standard routine in it. I could or should use cfIncluded maybe. This might work better I don’t know.

BKBK, Correct - I thought it should work this way and this is why I continued in trying to find out the problem.

I don’t know if this has any bearing on my problem but I had a missing DOCTYPE tag in my page. I put one in and the page worked!?!?

I will keep mypath ../../ for the moment, but once I get even one error page come through I’ll switch to one of the methods mentioned in this thread.

Cheers.

[Newsgroup_User]

> Adam, the reason I?m bouncing through page2 is that it has a standard routine
> in it. I could or should use cfIncluded maybe. This might work better I don?t
> know.

<cflocation> does another trip back to the client browser, which you almost
certainly don't want. It's NOT a form of "goto" statement (and if it was,
you still shouldn't be using it in this case ;-), nor is it a way of
including code. So, yes, you should be using <cfinclude> or <cfmodule> or
something like that instead.

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Adam