Specify default root path?

Riley Watkins

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Mar 23, 2011, 2:36:40 PM3/23/11

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My cfwheels site is running under subfolder/ in the web root, and I
have the web.config on the same level as subfolder/. In my web.config
I have the necessary URL rewrite rule to remove "subfolder/index.cfm/"
from the URL.

My problem arises when I try to include a Javascript file (script.js)
using javaScriptIncludeTag(). By default, cfwheels looks in /subfolder/
javascripts/ for the JS file, except that I've removed subfolder/ from
the URL, so a request to /subfolder/javascripts/script.js fails with
the following error message...

"Wheels.ViewNotFound
Could not find the view page for the javascripts action in the site
controller."

I believe a request to /javscripts/script.js would succeed, however.
How do I tell cfwheels not to look for the javascripts/ folder in
subfolder/? I was unable to find the answer in the documentation.

Risto

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Mar 25, 2011, 4:11:20 PM3/25/11

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Sounds like an issue with the rewrite rule. In the meantime including
the js file not using the javaScriptIncludeTag() is always an option.

Risto

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Mar 25, 2011, 4:18:45 PM3/25/11

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Can you not just keep "subfolder" in the url. I've run wheels apps out
of subdirectories like www.abc.com/blog
where cfwheels is installed in a subdirectory named blog and I've
never had any issues once you setup the rewrite rule. Of course I
wanted to have "blog" as part of my URL.
Don't know if that's your case though.

Riley Watkins

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Mar 25, 2011, 5:38:26 PM3/25/11

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Yes, I can actually get the site to run fine if I keep the subfolder
name in the URL. But I'm actually trying to run the site from a
subfolder as if it were at the root. In other words, I'm trying to
avoid needing the subfolder name in the URL.

Brad Gunn

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Mar 25, 2011, 6:18:48 PM3/25/11

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Can you paste in your url rewrite ? This is all possible with Apache.

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Riley Watkins

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Mar 25, 2011, 8:00:25 PM3/25/11

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I'm on IIS 7, actually. But here's the URL rewrite:

<rule name="ColdFusion on Wheels URL Rewriting" enabled="true">
<match url="^(.*)$" ignoreCase="true" />
<conditions logicalGrouping="MatchAll">
<add input="{SCRIPT_NAME}" negate="true" pattern="^/(flex2gateway|
jrunscripts|cfide|cfformgateway|railo-context|files|images|
miscellaneous|stylesheets|robots.txt|sitemap.xml|rewrite.cfm)($|/.*
$)" />
</conditions>
<action type="Rewrite" url="/site/rewrite.cfm/{R:1}" />
</rule>

Risto

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Mar 26, 2011, 3:16:55 PM3/26/11

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Hi,

I've done this in the past- I put /site in two places

<configuration>
<system.webServer>
<rewrite>
<rules>
<rule name="Asterisk Rewriting" enabled="true">

<add input="{SCRIPT_NAME}" negate="true" pattern="^/site/