Can't access values in 'this' structure

Question

-thanksok, this is really strange....
hers's my application.cfc
<cfcomponent>
    <cfscript>
        this.name = "wg234rf6u";
        this.applicationTimeout = createTimeSpan(0,2,0,0);
        this.clientmanagement= "yes";
        this.loginstorage = "session" ;
        this.sessionmanagement = "yes";
        this.sessiontimeout = createTimeSpan(0,0,20,0);
        this.setClientCookies = "yes";
        this.setDomainCookies = "yes";
        this.scriptProtect = "all";
        this.mappings["/MenuPath"] = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())&'Assets/XHTML/';
    </cfscript>
    <cffunction name="onApplicationStart" output="false" >
        <cfscript>
            application.dsn = "_mydsn_";
            application.url = "_myurl_";
        </cfscript>
    </cffunction>
    <cffunction name="onSessionStart" output="false" >
        <cfparam name="session.validation_errors" default="" />
        <cfparam name="session.message" default="" />
        <cfparam name="session.start" default="true" />
        <cfinclude template="./Assets/XHTML/functions.cfm" />
        <cfset #setSessionFormDefaults()# />
    </cffunction>
    <cffunction name="onrequestend" output="true" >
        <cfdump var="#this#" />
    </cffunction>
</cfcomponent>
I CAN dump the 'this' structure in the application.cfm and ONLY the application.cfm, no other file, not even if I were to put a file containing:
<cfouptut>
     <cfdump var="#this#" />
</cfoutput>
right besides application.cfc, I get a "Variable  THIS is undefined."error....
- this works on 3 other sites on the same server
- I have restarted both apache & CFMX
- there are no other cfm files in the site, just the application and my test file [so the "this" structure is not being overwritten]
- I can dump any other variable scope
ANY one have any ideas what the heck is going on here????
-thanks
-sean

Answer 1

They are, I have another site on the same server and this works:
the page:
<cfoutput>
<h1 class="image gallery"><span>Image Gallery</span></h1>
<cfdirectory action="list" directory="#this.mappings["/GalleryMapping"]#" name="gallery" />
<cfset group = 0 />
<cfloop query="gallery">
    <cfdirectory action="list" directory="#this.mappings["/GalleryMapping"]##gallery.name#" name="thumb" />
    <h2>#gallery.name#</h2>
    <ul class="gallery">
        <cfloop query="thumb">
            <cfif thumb.name is not "thumbs.db">
                <li>
                    <a href="/Assets/Images/Gallery/Images/#thumb.name#" rel="#group#"  title="Title">
                    <img src="/Assets/Images/Gallery/Thumbs/#gallery.name#/#thumb.name#" width="100" height="100" /></a>
                </li>
            </cfif>
        </cfloop>
        <cfset group++ />
    </ul>
</cfloop>
#testvar#
</cfoutput>
the Application.cfc:
<cfcomponent>
    <cfscript>
        this.name = "awefw32-5267gh";
        this.applicationTimeout = createTimeSpan(0,2,0,0);
        this.clientmanagement= "no";
        this.loginstorage = "session" ;
        this.sessionmanagement = "yes";
        this.sessiontimeout = createTimeSpan(0,0,20,0);
        this.setClientCookies = "no";
        this.setDomainCookies = "no";
        this.scriptProtect = "all";
        this.mappings["/GalleryMapping"] = getDirectoryFromPath(getCurrentTemplatePath())&'Assets/Images/Gallery/Thumbs/';
        testvar = "this is a test";
    </cfscript>
    <cffunction name="onApplicationStart" output="false" >...... etc.....
both the directory mapping & the local variable "testvar" are available on the gallery page....
-sean