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Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / September 2007Creating an XML file with CFFILE on UNIX server
I've run into a problem with creating an XML file on a UNIX server. I don't have access to the server and I'm trying to create an XML file so an outside agency can read it through the site URL. On a Windows machine I use GetDirectoryFromPath and ExpandPath to return the drive/path info, then I create the file with this and the query result. On the Unix web server I am only being returned a relative path, because of this I can't write the XML file to the web server. Any idea how to get around this? <!--- get the path and use it to write the XML file ---> <cfset thisPath = ExpandPath("*.*")> <cfset thisDirectory = GetDirectoryFromPath(thisPath)> <!--- this path has to match the path of the web server ---> <cffile action="write" file="#thisDirectory#mm_fund.xml" output="#toString(mm_fund)#"> <cfcontent type="text/xml"> <cfoutput>#toString(mm_fund)#</cfoutput> </cfcontent> GetDirectoryFromPath and ExpandPath should work on Linux, too. Did you attempt something like the following? <!--- the xml file ---> <cfset myXmlDoc = xmlParse("C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\website\order.xml")> <!--- get the path and use it to write the XML file ---> <cfset thisPath = ExpandPath("*.*")> <cfset thisDirectory = GetDirectoryFromPath(thisPath)> <!--- this path has to match the path of the web server ---> <!--- makes a copy of order.xml at #thisDirectory#mm_doc.xml ---> <cffile action="write" file="#thisDirectory#mm_doc.xml" output="#toString(myXMLDoc)#"> <!--- display mm_doc.xml ---> <cfheader name="Content-Disposition" value="inline; filename=mm_doc.xml"> <cfcontent file="#thisDirectory#mm_doc.xml" type="text/xml"> Knowing as little as I do about Unix I thought you still needed a drive "letter" to write the XML file to. I've been told I can get to the root but that it's root is "/bottomFolderName" (I was expecting R:\webRootPath\yourFolder\etc\XMLFileWrittenHere). I will post the error I saw next week, it's low on the priority right now. I do know the code works great on Windows but failed on actual Unix web server. I'm using CF 7.02 if it matters. On Unix/Linux you don't have driveletters and absolute paths look like relative paths 'cause Unix/linux doesn't use \. C:\folder\subfolder is on Unix/Linux /folder/subfolder. And very important "Foldername" is not "folderName" and Linux doesn't support spaces in Foldernames like Windows does. Hope this helps a bit. [i]Knowing as little as I do about Unix I thought you still needed a drive "letter" to write the XML file to. I've been told I can get to the root but that it's root is "/bottomFolderName" (I was expecting R:\webRootPath\yourFolder\etc\XMLFileWrittenHere).[/i] No, that is Windows thinking. You were told right. In Linux, a path usually begins with the forward slash /. I had doubts about your code itself. Did you run your version my example on Windows? If it works, then you will only have to replace the Windows path with something like the following. The rest of the code remains the same. <!--- the xml file on a typical single-server installation on Linux ---> <cfset myXmlDoc = xmlParse("/opt/coldfusion8/wwwroot/website/order.xml")> <!--- the xml file on a typical multiserver installation on Linux ---> <cfset myXmlDoc = xmlParse("/opt/jrun4/servers/coldfusion8/cfusion-ear/cfusion-war/website/order.x ml")> |
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