Fusebox 4 and friendly URLs

Seona Bellamy

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Dec 17, 2009, 10:34:44 PM12/17/09

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Hi guys,

I'm using my time off work to play around with some old half-finished projects that have been knocking around my hard-drive for a few years, seeing what I can bring to them with the new techniques and perspectives I learned in my last job. One of these projects in a half-built Fusebox 4 app and the issue I've been thinking about today is friendly URLs.

In my last job, we used ISAPI Rewrite to handle the URL rewiring for our CMS. It was very effective and relatively easy to customise once you got your head around the syntax, but the main problem I see with it is that it's only feasible when you have control over the server and can make sure that the necessary software is installed and suchlike. (That's my understanding of it, anyway, so please correct me if I'm wrong!)

I'm looking to create something that can be taken and uploaded to any CF server, including shared hosting providers, and "just work". That's the theory anyway. So I was thinking about ways that you could write something in CF to handle this. I've done some searching and the only options I can find are rather old (most seemed to date around 2005 as far as I could tell) and so I'm not sure how relevant they would still be.

So is this something that anyone has done or knows of being done and can point me to? Is there a way to handle it in Fusebox so that you don't need to keep the index.cfm in the middle of the URL (as all the examples I found seem to do)? Am I just indulging in a pipe dream here and sound give up and play with something else?

Any thoughts and/or suggestions would be welcome on this. I'm tired to going around in circles.

Cheers,

Seona.

Mark Mandel

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Dec 19, 2009, 6:54:21 PM12/19/09

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No reason you couldn't use a application specific missing template handler, that's what we do in CodexWiki, for both CF8 and CF9 support.

Just means that all your requests have to end in .cfm.

http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/CFMLRef/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbec22c24-7d2a.html

Mark

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