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Webmaster Forum / ColdFusion / Advanced Techniques / February 2008Automated method to create subsites
We are creating subsites by creating new subdirectories and using a separate application.cfm and include files. www.mysite.com/subsite1 www.mysite.com/subsite2 Is there a way in coldfusion to automate this? I.e., map "subsite1", "subsite2", ... to a database column to determine which rows/content to render. The part that is unclear is how to capture the subdirectory and map it to a database column even if the subdirectory doesn't exist. Hi, You can use the CGI.SCRIPT_NAME variable and use the listfirst function to get the text you require. -Prasanth Thanks, I think that provides the solution. It appears subsites can be automatically created with the cfdirectory (create) and cffile (copy) to move stub/empty files over. The stub/empty files would just contain includes bringing in the original templates and specify which database rows to retrieve based upon the CGI.SCRIPT_NAME variable. This appears to work, but is there a better way to accomplish this? > We are creating subsites by creating new subdirectories and using a separate > application.cfm and include files. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > The part that is unclear is how to capture the subdirectory and map it to a > database column even if the subdirectory doesn't exist. If you DO NOT want to create new subdirs all the time, you can use URL re-writing to redirect requests to one main dir, i.e. /subsite(\d*) - > /subsites/?siteID=$1. If you want to serve different content from this directory to different subsites, then all you have to do is to check cgi vars for the address... Yes, this appears to work better. Using the cgi.servername I can get the subsite and use that in the query. Thanks! |
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