Get the URI from the address bar

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May 10, 2006
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In the past I've been able to use CGI.REQUEST_URI to get the URI that is in the address bar. In CF7 i'm not able to use that. My URI does not match directly to a physical file.

I'm using a CFM page to determine which page and with which parameters to display a page.

example: www.example.com/semantic-url/

there isn't a dir for "semantic-url", I'm using .htaccess to direct to a CFM page to redirect (ie. redirect.cfm) in that page i need to be able to get the URI from the address bar.

CGI.REQUEST_URI used to do that. Now it just resolves to redirect.cfm

Any ideas? or Questions if I wasn't clear. Thanks.

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boughtonp

Inspiring

Well it'd only be a reference in the .htaccess file - that's only one place to go if it ever needs to change?

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k3nd477Author

Participant

What i'm trying to do is decouple the CFM page from the URL to give me total future flexibility. So including a reference to redirect.cfm would not work with that.

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dempster

Inspiring

I believe the problem is that you are using your web server to redirect a request for:

www.example.com/semantic-url/

Into a request for:

www.example.com/redirect.cfm

So as far as ColdFusion knows, the page being requested is redirect.cfm. You may need to try some other approach to accomplish whatever you're trying to do.

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k3nd477Author

Participant

Thanks for your responses. I actually have the redirects working with CF 6 using CGI.REQUEST_URI. The problem is that in CF7 that CGI var isn't present and no other CGI var will show the URI, just the physical path name. I have dumped the CGI variables, they show the page as redirect.cfm.

Is there a way to do URL redirects that i described above using Application file?

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boughtonp

Inspiring

Maybe try redirecting www.example.com/semantic-url to www.example.com/redirect.cfm/semantic-url and then trying CGI.PATH_INFO?

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boughtonp

Inspiring

Might be in PATH_INFO... not sure though; I've not tried that with url-rewrites.
If not, try dumping the CGI scope and seeing if any of the other values have what you want.

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