Problems with missing template handler

Question

Hello,
We have put the name testmiss.cfm in the missing template
handler in the administrator. Still, the default ColdFusion error
message shows when a cfinclude has template=a nonexisting file and
when in an html form,
action=a nonexisting cfm file. I have testmiss.cfm in both
the root with Application.cfm and the directory with all the other
cfms but still no luck.
Any idea what we are doing wrong?
Thank you very much.

Answer 1

bill0 wrote:
> Thanks for all the help but still no luck.
>
> The directory is d:\wSites\GBMain\html\CFMS> and I am
mapped to it as x:\CFMS.
> Most of the cfm files are in CFMS but Application.cfm is
1 directory up in
> html. I have tried misscfm.cfm in both html and CFMS but
had no luck having it
> find a non existant template referred to in a cfinclude
or a form's action
> attribute. The default ColdFusion error handler is what
shows. The missing
> template handler box says /misscfm.cfm. Misscfm.cfm is
text followed by a
> <cfabort>. We use ColdFusion MX6.1
>
> I hope that is enough information to figure what am I
missing and/or doing
> wrong.
>
>
Is the 'misscfm.cfm' file somewhere in the
'd:\wSites\GBMain\html\CFMS\'
directory. I will presume this is the 'web root' as defined
in your web
server (IIS or Apache or built-in or ???). The missing
template handler
file needs to be in the ColdFusion root. This is going to be
a
directory such as
'{drive}:\JRun4\servers\{server}\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\misscfm.cfm'
for J2EE flavors OR '{drive}:\CFusionMX\wwwroot' for Standard
I think.
It has been a very long time since I have dealt with
Standard.
This is probably completely different from the above web
root. That is
the point I am trying to get across. ColdFusion has TWO roots
where it
will look for a CFML file. But the Missing and Sitewide
templates can
only be in the ColdFusion root listed above, they will not
work in the
web root.
HTH
Ian