cf/dw issue

hi guys,

i use dreamweaver to build my sites. Something strange happened the other day, and now when i test my sites locally, all absolute links dont work.

for example, the following url prefix is used:

http://localhost:8500/mysite/

now any absolute links used in the site should start at mysite, ie

http://localhost:8500/mysite/myimagefolder/myimage.gif

but what has actually started happening is this

http://localhost:8500/myimagefolder/myimage.gif

The root folder of each site is being missed out. I dont know how this has happened, or whether it is dreamweaver or cf problem, does anybody know what may be causing it?

thanks in advance

a very frustrated

jamo

It's definitely not a CF problem...CF just uses whatever path you give it. I'm not very familiar with Dreamweaver (I hate it), but I'd speculate that it has something to do with the path you are specifying in the site's attributes. Sorry I can't be more specific...but I can promise you this has nothing to do with CF.

i have checked all attributes and they are all ok, i think it has bugged out a config file somewhere, dw is very buggy!

cheers for the quick response, out of interest what do you use for your development? I have had a lot of problems with dreamweaver, keeps crashing, having fatal errors, and it has even corrupted its own files, requiring me to re install.

jamo

I've been using HomeSite to write CF because that's what my boss likes, but I prefer plain text editors for writing code. I use VIM or VI on UNIX systems and notepad on Windows systems.

wdn2k

I use Homesite+ (and used CF Studio before that), which is awesome and has great customization and code snippet help. For example, I can type 'cfc' and hit control-J, and an entire CFC skeleton is inserted. I can type 'try' and hit control-J, and an entire CFTRY/CFCATCH block is inserted. I can type 'function' and hit control-J and a CFFUNCTION block shows up, etc.

I also love Eclipse for Java work, and there are some very promising plug-ins for Eclipse that do CFML. In time CFEclipse will be the best route I think.