installing files outside wwwroot

[nine_thousand]

Hello Everyone!

I'm re-installing coldfusion locally, but i don't have enough space to put my files in the wwwroot. i have other partitions though with more then enough space... is it possible to put files in another location and still make everything work?

Thanks for your help!

[craigkaminsky · Accepted solution]

Hey, 9K,

You have two choices:
1. Place your CF/website files in any directory and create an appropriate mapping in the CF administrator
2. Relocate your wwwroot/web root directory at the server level (i.e., tell your server to look in an alternate directory by default).

I think item 2 sounds like the right solution for you.

On some Virtual Private Servers I've had at HostMySite, their standard configuration doesn't leave any real space in the default web root (typically, C:\Inetpub\wwwroot). The C partition is just for core applications and services. They designate a D partition for your working files (and an E partition for logging).

However, these machines have IIS set to pull from/look in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\ for files. I want my web root to be located at D:\wwwroot as this will give me plenty of storage space for sites, etc. To make this change on IIS servers, I go into IIS Administration and change my default web location. The same principle works for Apache servers but you set the (new) default web root in your httpd.conf file.

There can be a few gotchas when moving the web root but typically it's pretty straight forward. I recall issues in IIS with the Default site and a correctly configured Virtual Directory for CFIDE -- the CFIDE directory should be set correctly already but, if not, it can cause issues trying to render CF.

Hope that helps!

[Newsgroup_User]

As well as the ColdFusion mappings and changing the configuraiton of
your web server's web root (which I agree with Craig is probably the
best for you); there is a third option.

You can also define 'virtual directories' within a web server. This
allows you to define a sub-directory in your web root, but instead of
being actually a sub-directory it points to another location, anywhere
in your system you want it to be.