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January 17, 2020
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Coldfusion only displays coldfusion files

  • January 17, 2020
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I have installed Coldfusion 2018 in developer mode using the built in web server. It will serve up any coldfusion file (*.cfm) but nothing else. Even if the file is in the same direcotry. No *.html, *.jpg, *.png, nothing. 

At first I thought it was a permission issue because I had to alter the user the coldfusion service is running under. But since it still won't display files in the same directory as the *.cfm files it is displaying I am doubting that assumption.

Does anyone have an idea why this might be happening?

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Correct answer Dave Watts

Uh, is Coldfusion case sensitive with folders/filenames? It wasn't on version 8. But if I manually type in the filename I am trying to load up, with the same case as is in windows explorer, in the URL bar of the brownser, I can pull up the files.

 

I just renamed the subfolder containing this web application (from CalamityLog_dev to calamitylog_dev) and now everything works?!?  Surely that isn't how it's supposed to be.

 

EDIT:

Evidently that is the way it is 😞

https://community.adobe.com/t5/coldfusion/coldfusion-10-case-sensitive-urls/td-p/4170542


Yes, it is! I didn't think to mention that, because of my long-standing internal rule that I treat EVERYTHING as case-sensitive whether it is or not. So I simply didn't think to suggest that! You can probably make it case-insensitive by fiddling around in one of the Tomcat configuration files. I'd search for "tomcat disable case sensitive url" or something along those lines. Sorry!

 

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

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Dave Watts
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January 17, 2020

This is kind of weird (meaning I don't have this problem, I guess). What happens when you request one of the files? Do they show up in a directory listing? Are the files located in the default CF webroot (C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\wwwroot)? For that matter, are you running on Windows or something else?

 

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC
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January 17, 2020

I am running on Windows. If I request the file I get a 404 error. If I request a CFM file in the same directory it comes up fine. They are all in subdirectory of the default root directory that you mentioned above. 

 

After reading your response I tried something else that makes it more strange. If I put a file directly in the root (C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\wwwroot\image.png for example), it loads up fine. If I put it in a subdirectory (C:\ColdFusion2018\cfusion\wwwroot\subdirectory), it won't load. Any CFM file will load from that subdirectory though.

 

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Dave Watts
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January 17, 2020

OK, so this is still weird. But it sounds like a permissions thing of some sort. The way web servers handle static files is that they need to have permission to read the file and serve it. But for dynamic files like CF, the web server needs to be able to execute the files rather than read them. It then hands them over to the CF service which will need to be able to read them (and somewhat ironically not execute them, if I recall correctly). So it's possible for this to get screwed up with an external web server like IIS.

 

Now with the built-in CF web server, I don't really see how that could happen, because the CF service and the web service both run under the same user account or security context. During the install, did you choose any of the security options like auto-lockdown or secure profile? That's my best guess about what's going on now.

 

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC

Dave Watts, Eidolon LLC
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