trouble with cfinclude within CFBuilder

Report · Mar 24, 2010

This seems like the silliest question but I cannot for the life of me get a cfinclude tag to work within my application in CFBuilder. I always get the standard "cannot find" CF error displayed instead.

I'm on OS X. Document root is /Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot/site and my web root is /Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot

It doesn't matter if I reference any of the following, my "includes" folder is not found.

/Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot/site/includes

/site/includes

includes (relative)

If I put a file in the includes folder and preview it it displays without a problem. The file outputs the following information when I use cgi.CF_Template_Path:

/Applications/ColdFusion9/wwwroot/site/includes/location-test.cfm

I've tried deleting the server instance in CFB and adjusting document/web root settings to no avail.

What am I missing (feeling pretty stupid )? Seems like the CFINCLUDE tag just doesn't work on my local server.

Thanks in advance,
Scott

Report · Mar 25, 2010

After some more troubleshooting I've narrowed down my problem to something that works currently on a CF7 box.

<cfinclude template="<cfoutput>#application.pathtoroot#</cfoutput>includes/body_header.cfm">

If I remove the <cfoutput>#application.pathtoroot#</cfoutput> the file is included properly.

#application.pathtoroot# allows me to develop on a server where the site can't start in the web root directory and in this case = "/site/".

While the above code with <cfoutput> in the template attribute of the cfinclude throws an error, the following does not so I know it's not a path issue.

The error message displays the proper path when saying it cannot locate the included file "Could not find the included template /site/includes/body_header.cfm."

I also tried changing the scope from application. to mysettings. and the error still occurs.

Looks like the problem was the cfinclude tag no longer needs <cfoutput> tags wrapped around the pathtoroot variable I had set. I knew it had to be a stupid problem!

Report · Mar 25, 2010

As far as I know one has never been able to embed one CF tag within another one.

And certainly having <cfoutput> there is meaningless, because you're not OUTPUTTING that variable; you're just using it.

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Adam

Report · Mar 25, 2010

Ahh, ok. I guess a more correct statement would have been "no longer allowed/tolerated"