http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T19:57:04 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-p36.htm#33274 why isn't the nameconflict option included in the docs? when it does exist shahzad 0 0 2005-05-11T12:03:04 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-p36.htm#28940 Because administrative directory mapping apply to web content accessed through cfinclude, cfmodule, urls, etc. CFFILE and CFDIRECTORY are not assumed to be accessing web content, they are assumed to be used on files anywhere on your server, not necessarily in your web tree. This was a decision on Macromedia's (Allaire's) part. Sometimes it will be more convenient, sometimes not. TheoPeters 0 0 2005-03-03T08:23:38 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/6.1/htmldocs/tags-p36.htm#25969 Can anyone explain why this works just fine:<br /><br /><cffile <br />action="write" <br />file="\\Server\Inetpub\wwwroot\Alpha\Beta\test.txt" <br />output="This is a test"><br /><br />But I get an error "Error: All or part of the path is invalid." when I try to run this:<br /><br /><cffile <br />action="write" <br />file="/Beta/test.txt" <br />output="This is a test"><br /><br />Even though the "Alpha" directory is designated as the web root in IIS AND I have defined it as "/" in ColdFusion Administrator's Mappings section. Everything else seems to work just fine, for example:<br /><br /><a href="/Beta/test.txt"><br /><img src="/Beta/picture.jpg"><br /><cfinclude template="/Beta/test.txt"><br /><br />all work as I would expect them to. Why do cffile and cfdirectory have to be different? methik 0 0 2004-12-30T15:34:42