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kodemonki
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July 17, 2008
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'Coldfusion' is undefined - JS Error

  • July 17, 2008
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We have a CF8 server I am currently using for testing purposes and when I try to use Ajax I get a JavaScript error saying that 'ColdFusion' is undefined. I have read other posts in these forums and also other blogs and tutorials online and this issue seems to be coming from virtual CFIDE directories that aren't set up correctly.

I asked my SysAdmin to "add a virtual directory called CFIDE to [our site] and point it to the CFIDE directory (wwwroot/cfide)?

He said it was already set up with read and write permissions of scripts and executables, and that it allows anonymous access just like the rest of the domain.

Error Site: http://kodemonki.com/demo.cfm
Demo: http://tutorial6.learncf.com/

I would really like to use some of the neato UI stuff and jump in, but I need some help.

Can anyone offer it?

Thanks!
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Correct answer kodemonki
ahhh HA!

I had CFIDE set up as a virtual directory in one site, but not the one I was working on. Taking a gander through the CFIDE/scripts directory I saw the FCKeditor. I had used that in one of the sites! So I dump my cfwindow test code in there and voila!

So for those of you who might think that a virtual directory is serverwide, it is SITE wide!

Good luck to all!

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kodemonkiAuthorCorrect answer
Inspiring
July 18, 2008
ahhh HA!

I had CFIDE set up as a virtual directory in one site, but not the one I was working on. Taking a gander through the CFIDE/scripts directory I saw the FCKeditor. I had used that in one of the sites! So I dump my cfwindow test code in there and voila!

So for those of you who might think that a virtual directory is serverwide, it is SITE wide!

Good luck to all!
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DJ Smith
Inspiring
November 26, 2009

Just so there is a record of this on the Adobe site...

IF you are running Apache and have virtual hosts, be sure to add the line

Alias /CFIDE "c:/inetpub/wwwroot/CFIDE"

to the virtual host list. Of course change the path c:/inetpub/wwwroot/CFIDE" to whatever is set up in the CF Administrator.

Otherwise, none of your cfform stuff will work properly, AJAX will croak,  and you will get a 'Coldfusion' is undefined error.

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kodemonkiAuthor
Inspiring
July 18, 2008
The server is IIS6
Virtual directory path: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE
checked things: Read, Log Visits, Index this Resource
The content comes from a 'directory located on this computer'
Execute permissions: Scripts and Executables

Under ASP.NET the file location is C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\CFIDE\web.config, but we don't use ASP, so I don't know if that would make a difference.
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