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ColdFusion Mappings and Relative Paths
No comments · Posted by Elliott in Adobe, ColdFusion, Programming
Recently one of our applications started failing inconsistently with strange errors about certain files not existing. We’d see error emails about things like the /myapplication/views/pages/survey.cfm not existing which didn’t make any sense since /myapplication is a mapping created inside the Application.cfc
<cfset this.mappings["/myapplication"] = expandPath("../")>
See the bug there? ExpandPath() is relative to the requested template. This application had previously had all requests routed through /public/index.cfm so the mapping worked fine.
However, recently we had added some new web services like /public/services/ScheduleService.cfc and now whenever an Ajax request went through the CF mapping would change from pointing to / to /public causing all other concurrent requests to fail with confusing missing file errors.
I fixed this by making sure the path was no longer relative.
<cfset this.mappings["/myapplication"] = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())>
So the moral of the story is to NEVER use expandPath() to create a mapping that’s relative to the webroot.
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