dot notation in cfc

[robedob]

Hi,
Can someone help me with this?
I have a directory that uses a dot in its name, like robedob.com as the name of the directory. in this directory I have a cfc directory. How can I use dot notation to invoke a cfc object like that:
<cfobject component="dev.[directory name].cfc.Client" name="ObjClient"> if the directory name has a dot in it?

Will this work? <cfobject component="dev.robedob.com.cfc.Client" name="ObjClient">

[Dan_Bracuk]

What happened when you tried it?

[robedob]

Sorry for the delay. I get this message:
Could not find the ColdFusion Component dev.robedob.com.cfc.Client

So, it looks for the following path:
dev/robedob/com/cfc
instead of this:
dev/robedob.com/cfc

Any suggestion?

[iKnowKungFoo]

Try

<cfobject component="/dev/robedob.com/cfc/Client" name="ObjClient">

[robedob]

Got the same result but with the slashes instead of the dots in the answer.

If nothing else works, i will place the cfcs in the same directory as the calling page, which is the application.cfm. It's just bugging me this dot notation. I also tried with a backshlash like that:
dev.robedob\.com.cfc.Client
and the forward slash like that:
dev.robedob\.com.cfc.client
but had no better luck.

I'm still hoping there is a solution to that problem.

[Dan_Bracuk]

Do you have a default location for components on your administrator?

[robedob]

No. I'm on a shared server and the administrator will not let me set it up.

[Stressed_Simon · Accepted solution]

Ask your host to create a named virtual directory to that folder for you and reference that instead.

[Newsgroup_User]

I am confused. If in the base of your web site, you have a folder called
cfcs/my/component.cfc. All you should have to do is call it by:

cfcs.my.component or <cfobject name=MyObject"
component="cfcs.my.component"/>

Where ever the first index.cfm for your site is located (the home page) is
the base of your site.

I am on shared hosting and the path to my cfcs are pet/store/cfcs/. It comes
up as www.mysite.com/pet/store/cfcs.

The location to my component (myComponent.cfc) is then:

<cfobject name="MyPetObject" component="pets.store.cfcs.myComponent"/>

Does that help?

[Newsgroup_User]

one last piece:

The actual web root on my web hosting is
E:/wwwroot/mywebsite.com/pet/store/cfcs/. So the first part does not matter
because the actually hosting maps your site to E:/wwwroot/mywebsite.com so
it actually starts with the pet folder at the base.

Judging by how you listed your site it may just be

<cfobject name="ClientObj" component="cfc.Client"/>

[robedob]

Thanks for the information. It sure helps. I will give it a try to see if this works. Since my last post, I was able to convince my colocation web administrator to create a path in cf admin, and it works since he created that path.