Having CF parse another file type

[gobbawee]

I'm running IIS 5, Windows 2000, and MX. I can't seem to get it to work. Lets
say I have a new file type I named ".xyz". How do I get Cold Fusion to parse
all of these files the say way a .cfm file is parsed?

Thanks.

[Jak-S]

Right click my computer > manage > services and applications > internet
information service > web sites > right click default web site (or whatever its
called) > properties > home directory > configuration > mappings

then add a new mapping for your new file extension with the same executable
path as the one the .cfm mapping has. e.g.:

Executable: C:\CFusionMX\runtime\lib\wsconfig\1\jrun.dll
Extension: .xyz
Verbs: All Verbs
Script Engine: checked
Check file exists: unchecked

Hope that helps,

Jack

[gobbawee]

Jack - thanks for your response. I have done that and now only get a "Page
cannot be displayed" error for an "xyz" file.

The xyz file only has a #now()# statement in it, as a test.

any ideas? Thanks.

[Dean Harmon]

when you add .xyz to the extension list in IIS it just tells IIS to forward
the request to the ColdFusion engine for processing. You will need to tell
ColdFusion how to deal with the .xyz filetype as well.

First, let me preface this with the fact that I haven't tried this and it
may not work, but it should...

Look on the web for how to properly configure a J2EE web.xml file. This
will be located in the WEB-INF directory at either
C:\CFusionMX7\wwwroot\WEB-INF or C:\INetPub\wwwroot\WEB-INF. If you open it
up you can see the servlet mappings about 2/3 of the way down. This tells
coldFusion what to do with a file of a given file type (generally cfc, cfm,
etc.).


Dean

"gobbawee" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
news:d0f6vc$fgn$1@forums.macromedia.com...

> Jack - thanks for your response. I have done that and now only get a

"Page

> cannot be displayed" error for an "xyz" file.
>
> The xyz file only has a #now()# statement in it, as a test.
>
> any ideas? Thanks.
>