<cfoutput> and .js question

i have a .js file that's included in a template. within this .js file i have something like
<cfoutput>#cgi.server_name#</cfoutput>

for some reason this doesn't work. is that mean that you cannot use <cfoutput> and CF variables in an included .js file ?
thanks for the help in advance

You can't use <cfoutput> tags or any coldfusion tags, for that matter, within a .js file. I have set up files in the past where I set up the coldFusion-dependent variables within my .cfm page and then pass it via javascript.

So somewhere above I would include this global variable.

var myvariable = #cgi.server_name#;

and later call the .js file

thank you very much

You can also just have a CF template or CFC that generates the Javascript dynamically and pushes it into the header with <cfhttphead>, instead of using a separate .js file.