2 Replies Latest reply: Mar 18, 2014 10:01 AM by GuitsBoy RSS

    Coldfusion 10 Mappings and Apache VirtualHosts

    GuitsBoy Community Member
    GuitsBoy Mar 11, 2014 1:05 PM

      Im having a little difficulty figuring out coldfusion mappings with numerous virtualhosts in apache.

       

      It seems that CF10 handles things differently than CF8.   I used to be able to add mappings in the CFIDE and brose to the files directly, or in the case of a cfc, get the component info.  It seems that CF10 no longer follows mappings, or at least not externally.  We have come flex apps that rely on these mappings, and they can no longer get to the cfcs.  Adding aliases in apache did not fix the issue, since the CFC cannot read session variables from Application.cfm when invoked that way.  Does anyone have any ideas?

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        • 1. Re: Coldfusion 10 Mappings and Apache VirtualHosts
          Carl Von Stetten MeganK
          Carl Von Stetten Mar 18, 2014 9:41 AM (in response to GuitsBoy)

          Web services (whether used by Flex or not) must be web-accessible through a URL.  They can't be accessible to CF only via mappings.  If you don't want to expose the entire CFC as web-accessible, try creating a proxy CFC in a web-accessible place that can then call the methods on your non-web-accessible CFC.

           

          Also, can you provide the URL that Flex is trying to use?  Can you access that same url from a web browser (including any requisite "?method=" stuff)?  If you can't access from a web browser, I don't think you will be able to from Flex.  I think you'll need to configure Apache to support whatever URL you want Flex to use, and it sounds to me like Apache aliases might be the way to do it.  Can you provide more detail on what you tried with aliases?

           

          -Carl V.

          • 2. Re: Coldfusion 10 Mappings and Apache VirtualHosts
            GuitsBoy Community Member
            GuitsBoy Mar 18, 2014 10:01 AM (in response to Carl Von Stetten)

            Thank you for the reply Carl

             

            Unfortunately it is a development server on an internal / private network, so there is no public access.

             

            Regardless, it appears that the CF10 vs apache mappings were not the problem themselves.  We are able to access the cfc directly, and unless a method is specified, it will show the CFC explorer.

             

            The issue that is still plagung us is that the CFC seems to be including parts of the fusebox framework, though there is no application.cfm application.cfc or other automatically included page.  We cannot figure out what is causing this behavior.  Anyway, I have a seperate thread for that issue here :  http://forums.adobe.com/thread/1427279

             

            I apologize for not closing this thread out

             

            Thanks again