Mike Benner: Coldfusion 8 Day 3 (IIS Virtual Directory and Built-In FCKEditor)

Coldfusion 8 Day 3 (IIS Virtual Directory and Built-In FCKEditor)

Aug 7 by Michael Benner

I was working on editing some of my samples mentioned earlier and trying to implement the "easy" FCKEditor now built into Coldfusion (I have been using it for a year as a standalone now and am pretty familiar with it) and none of it worked. So much for "easy". But whatever, I thought. These are the typical issues you run into moving to a new server and trying new features.

I begin reading the docs (yes, I know should have read them first) and tried the samples and still no luck. Not wanting to reinstall the server (in case something went screwy there) I begin checking mappings, etc. I checked the links for the style sheet and the xml config files and they didn't work.

Then it dawned on me. I have multiple sites on this version of IIS and CF has had issues with that in the past. As I start going through IIS, I realize the new site I was setting up did not have the CFIDE virtual directory underneath it. Not sure if it is suppose to get added automatically from CF or not, but it was missing. So I went in and added it manually, and checked the sample. Low and behold, it worked.

Oh glorious, FCKEditor...Built into the a single tag, no JS inclusions, no excessive js, css, and xml management. I will start toying with this next, as I have my own custom written pieces for my current project that I want to try implement.

Now that this is solved, back to building the samples site and getting some code available.