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June 12, 2012
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When will Application mappings not be read?

  • June 12, 2012
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Pretty basic question, but I have had a complete brain dump...

My application.cfc mappings work great...

on cfc calls, queries, cfincludes... basically any CFM related activity.

But they do not resolve  on a <img src='\mappeddir\image.png'> when mappeddir is the correct mapped directory

(and a "fileexists or expandpath on that mappeddir shows  the image does exist -- but then I have embedded the mapping inside a CF function  :|)

Am I missing something in the naming reference, or are there general "non-cf" conditions when a cf application mapping would not fire to the correct directory?

Tx, Tami

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Correct answer Sean Coyne

Mapped directories are referenced within CF code.  In your case that is a HTML image tag.  The browser hits your webserver and asks it for /mappeddir/image.png but your web server has no knowledge of CF mapped directories so it returns a 404.  You can add the same mapping in your webserver if you like, and then it will know how to handle those paths.

In apache you would do something like:

Alias /mappeddir "/Some/Absolute/Path"

<Directory "/Some/Absolute/Path">

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

In IIS you would create a virtual directory.

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Sean Coyne
Sean CoyneCorrect answer
Participating Frequently
June 12, 2012

Mapped directories are referenced within CF code.  In your case that is a HTML image tag.  The browser hits your webserver and asks it for /mappeddir/image.png but your web server has no knowledge of CF mapped directories so it returns a 404.  You can add the same mapping in your webserver if you like, and then it will know how to handle those paths.

In apache you would do something like:

Alias /mappeddir "/Some/Absolute/Path"

<Directory "/Some/Absolute/Path">

Options Indexes MultiViews FollowSymLinks

AllowOverride None

Order allow,deny

Allow from all

</Directory>

In IIS you would create a virtual directory.

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Tami KBAuthor
Inspiring
June 12, 2012

Yea... I know... was just hoping there was some magic fairy config that I could set up. Since only a few images are not references dynamicaly, the case for mapping on this project is low...

thanks Sean for confirming -- but magic fairy config would have been awesome

T--

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