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Browse All TopicsI am trying to redirect based on url. So if someone enters www.mydomain/something, I want to pull the "something" portion of the url and query a database for that and redirect to the associated url. I have tried doing this in both the application file and in a custom 404 error file. I think that beause the directory something does not really exist the getwebpath function is not working in the application file and once it bounces to the error page it is still not picking up the directory.
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by: azadisaryevPosted on 2009-11-07 at 00:17:43ID: 25765426
you won't be able to do this in cf because, since you are not requesting a .cfm file the web server never passes the request to cf sevrer.
ocs/2.0/mo d/mod_rewr ite.html) or isapi_rewrite on IIS6 (http://www.isapirewrite.c om/). IIS7 has rewriting module built-in, i believe...
you will need to use url rewriting to accomplish what you want.
use mod-rewrite on Apache (http://httpd.apache.org/d
Azadi