http://livedocs.adobe.com/ Macromedia LiveDocs - online documentation with user feedback. Copyright 2009, Macromedia, Inc. 2009-11-25T10:38:34 en-us http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000277.htm#58723 The documentation here makes for some confusion.<br /><br />First of all, there's some debate about what terms mean what kinds of <br />paths.<br /><br />Some use the following terminology:<br />relative path: anything starting with a file or directory name, ./, ../, or / <br />where the / path is commonly called "webroot relative"<br /><br />absolute path: on Windows something starting with a drive letter, on <br />*NIX, something starting with a / character (the root of the UNIX box's <br />disk systems).<br /><br />For others, especially those with an Apache background, the following <br />"lexicon" is preferred (and actualy makes for a much clearer, cleaner <br />discussion):<br /><br />relative path: anything starting with a filename, ./ or ../<br /><br />absolute path: anything starting with a /, working from the webroot down <br />the directory tree... this is what Apache calls an "absolute path" and most <br />others call a "webroot relative path"<br /><br />physical path: anything starting with a drive letter on Windows or a / on <br />*NIX, meaning the root of the server's disk systems.<br /><br />That little bit of clarification out of the way, the cfinclude documentation <br />indicates that what Apache users call an "absolute path" cannot be done <br />without a mapping. THIS IS NOT THE CASE. Any cfinclude using a path <br />of "/CFIDE..." is guaranteed to work on any version from 6.1 up, with no <br />mappings defined whatsoever, including those who have wisely <br />removed the "/" mapping from the CF Administrator.<br /><br />So to use webroot relative or absolute paths (in the Apache sense), you <br />need no mappings UNLESS the file you wish to cfinclude lies outside <br />the webroot:<br /><br />This will work, with zero mappings listed in the Administrator<br />/=c:\inetpub\wwwroot<br />/modelglue = c:\inetpub\wwwroot\modelglue<br /><cfinclude template="/modelglue/modelglue.cfm" /><br /><br />This will NOT work without a mapping of /modelglue pointing at the <br />correct folder:<br />/=c:\inetpub\wwwroot<br />/modelglue = c:\inetpub\external\modelglue<br /><cfinclude template="/modelglue/modelglue.cfm" /> cf.Objective 0 0 2006-12-29T15:28:26 http://livedocs.adobe.com/coldfusion/7/htmldocs/00000277.htm#39997 This method of using a variable to set the template path does not seem <br />work in a page that is being included. i.e. you can't nest includes with <br />this method. Laverda668 0 0 2005-09-26T21:33:57