Get IP Addr or Hostname of CF server

[MikeB36]

Hello,

I need to write some ColdFusion code that will do things a little differently
based on what ColdFusion server it is running on. Is there any way in
ColdFusion you can get the IP address or host name of the ColdFusion server?
As long as it doesn't return 127.0.0.1 and localhost ... that wouldn't be very
useful.

Thanks

[philh]

I take it cgi.server_name doesn't help you?

[Joseph Gooch]

I just write the server name to a file called real.html in the root of
the web site. It helps with the load balancer, since then I can tell
remotely which server I'm actually on, and then in code I can use cffile
to pull the data into a variable for my error handler and conditional code.

If I wanted to be real tricky I'd have my onApplicationStart methods
check the server scope to make sure a variable exists there with the
contents of real.html so it's always available.

I haven't yet figured out if it's possible to initialize variables in
the server scope via a jrun or CF config file, or to have jrun/cf run a
function/cfm/class at startup. (which would be ideal)

Joe

MikeB36 wrote:

> Hello,
>
> I need to write some ColdFusion code that will do things a little differently
> based on what ColdFusion server it is running on. Is there any way in
> ColdFusion you can get the IP address or host name of the ColdFusion server?
> As long as it doesn't return 127.0.0.1 and localhost ... that wouldn't be very
> useful.
>
> Thanks
>