How can you include a template outside of root directory?

Try this.

<cfinclude> doesn't take a URL, it takes a path.

This is all covered in the docs (which should be your first point of call
when wanting to know how something works):
http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/8/Tags_i_05.html

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Adam

xstortionist wrote:
> Is there a way to include a template file from outside of the root directory?
>

Yes, assuming you mean you are including a file available to the server.
You can create a ColdFusion Mapping to any directory you like and then
use that mapping to find the desired resource.


I.E.
ColdFusion Administrator:
Active ColdFusion Mappings
/my_famous_mapping E:\aDirectory\aSubDirectory\

Then your code would be...
<cfinclude template="/my_famous_mapping/something/aFile.cfm">

This would then include the template found at
E:\aDirectory\aSubDirectory\something\aFile.cfm.

If you are trying to include a file from another server using a URL,
then you will need to be looking at the <cfhttp...> tag.

<cfhttp url=" http://www.whatever.com/templates/whatever.cfm"...>