Password Protect .html

[fshin]

Hello,

I am using application.cfm to password protect all my files in a given
directory on our server. However, there are a series of html pages that are
generated into the directory that i would also like to protect. Is there a way
to do this with the application.cfm? Or is there a way for me to have the html
pages' extension changed to .cfm automatically somehow? Any help would be
appreciated.

Thanks,
Frank

[adonis1976]

have you thought of using <cffile action="rename"> for the html files that are generated?

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

On 2005-05-05 12:21:47 -0500, "fshin" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> said:

> Hello,
>
> I am using application.cfm to password protect all my files in a given
> directory on our server. However, there are a series of html pages
> that are generated into the directory that i would also like to
> protect. Is there a way to do this with the application.cfm? Or is
> there a way for me to have the html pages' extension changed to .cfm
> automatically somehow? Any help would be appreciated.

Off the top of my head, unless you add a mapping so that .html files
get processed by the CF server, I don't think there's any way to use CF
to protect your HTML files since CF wouldn't be processing them (and
hence wouldn't know or care about the HTML files). Probably the
simplest thing to do is just change the file extension of your HTML
pages to cfm.

Matt

--
Matt Woodward
[email]mpwoodward@gmail.com[/email]
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion

[fshin]

Well, these pages are actually just generated by Microsoft Access and are
manually exported by someone into the web server directory. There may be 30
pages put in there at a time. Can I use cffile to automatically rename these
files (just the extension, not the actual filename)?

[fshin]

Matt,

How do I do this mapping? Is there a downside to doing this? Also, it would be very tedious to change the extensions manually as there will be approximately 30 new pages per day.

Frank

[adonis1976]

lets assume that ur user is uploading the html files to the folder "temp"
then i would do create this code:
<cfdirectory directory="#expandpath(temp)#" name="qFolder">
<cfset sFolderPath = expandPath(temp)>
<cfloop query="qFolder">
<cffile action="rename" source="#sFolderPath#\#name#"
destination="#sFolderPath#\replaceNoCase("#name#", 'html','cfm',"all")">
</cfloop>

Schedule this file to run of the CF administrator..let me know.

[mpwoodward *TMM*]

On 2005-05-05 13:02:31 -0500, "fshin" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> said:

> Matt,
>
> How do I do this mapping? Is there a downside to doing this? Also, it
> would be very tedious to change the extensions manually as there will
> be approximately 30 new pages per day.
>
> Frank

There's an explanation here--this is something you do in the web server:
[url]http://www.experts-exchange.com/Web/WebDevSoftware/ColdFusion/Q_21056883.html[/url]

Basically you just tell IIS to use CF to process files with .html
extensions (or whatever your extension happens to be). The downside is
that this will mean *all* of your HTML files get processed by the CF
server, which means a small performance hit vs. serving HTML directly.
Probably won't be a showstopper but it is defintely something to be
aware of.

Matt
--
Matt Woodward
[email]mpwoodward@gmail.com[/email]
Team Macromedia - ColdFusion