CF10 can't process IIS websites pointing to Google Drive folders

Question

Would anyone know why CF10 (or Tomcat) can't process IIS websites pointing to Google Drive folders?

I installed a fresh copy of CF10 on my PC yesterday, and after everything was all done and working (so I thought)

I navigated to one of my CF sites which all reside in my Google Drive, and received a File Not Found error.

So after beating my head against a wall for about 5 hours, and researching every possible CF10 setting, customization,

ISAPI setting, and so on, I finally attemped creating a brand new site right in my drive root, which of course worked.

Long story short, here is the issue in a nutshell:

If your website's IIS physical path points to anywhere inside of a Google Drive folder, CF10 will give you a

"coldfusion.runtime.TemplateNotFoundException: File not found" error when trying to process CF pages.

This does not happen in CF9. As soon as you point the IIS physical path outside of the Google Drive folder,

CF pages process correctly.

Any help, explination or workaround (other than moving my sites outside of Google Drive or reverting to CF9)

would be greatly appreciated!

PwrSrg · Answer

After deciding to uninstall CF10 and go back to CF9 until the bug was worked out,

I quickly discovered that CF9 no longer worked either, so it had to be Google Drive.

So after deciding to spend another day trying to figure this out, here is what I found:

Apparently, some people (including me) are running into an issue where Google Drive

messes with the folder's security properties. I realized this while trying to search my

Google Drive folder for a file, which was not found by the system. Realizing that

this was way too coincidental, I researched the problem and found this:

After fixing all the permissions, etc, I was finally able to get windows to properly

search my Google Drive. As soon as I did, I refreshed my browser pointing to a

CFM file and BAM, it magically worked!

So... If you are running into this issue, you need to fix your Google Drive's folder

permissions, specifically adding the SYSTEM and Administrators.

Hope this helps!

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