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Rick1563
Rick1563

Reputation: 13

coldfusion documents outside of root folder

I am in the process of rewriting our websites and I have taken advantage of Coldfusion mappings to move my cfc files outside the root directory. I would like to do the same for documents (especially ones download to us) but it appears mapping won't work for that? Is there another way?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 331

Answers (1)

Redtopia
Redtopia

Reputation: 5247

I assume you want to make your uploads available for viewing, in which case they need to be accessible by the webserver. I typically upload to a temp directory for processing, and then move the file to a permanent location, which is outside of my public webroot (www folder?), but mapped in the webserver so that the files can be served. I do this to keep source code completely separate from user generated content.

So a simplified directory structure might look like this:

/www
/cfc
/data
/data/temp
/data/user

As you've already figured out, your cfcs can be accessed via a mapping. Then, depending on your web server, you would make the data directory available, and lock down the kinds of files you want to serve via your web server.

Upvotes: 1

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