Access files outside the web root?

Hello, everyone.

Hypothetical scenario.

I wanted to have a file that would set globally accessible variables to contain passwords, and I want to put this file outside the web root, so that users can not access.

Logical pathnames of course won't work.  And the cfinclude tag doesn't use physical paths.

I've never done this before.  What are my options?

Thank you

^_^

Almost all your CFML files should not be in a directory web-driven!  That those people really are looking for should be accessible web.

Files must not be accessible to be web - ed or be instantiated as objects, or used as a custom tag.

FOR EXAMPLE:

C:\webapps\myapp<= this="" dir="" is="" the="" root="" as="" far="" as="" coldfusion="" is="">

C:\webapps\myapp\wwwroot<= that="" dir="" is="" the="" webroot="" as="" far="" as="" the="" web="" server="">

C:\webapps\myapp\includes<= files="" you="">

C:\webapps\myapp\api<=>

The only things that should be dir wwwroot files people really browse (index.cfm, etc.) and components such as images, JS and CSS files that must be served to the browser.

Most of your CFM files must be in a subdirectory of C:\webapps\myapp.

So index.cfm must be traveled, and it must use the data in secretSecureStuff.cfm which is in understand this respectively.  Then index.cfm is just:

include "/ myapp/includes/secretSecureStuff.cfm";

If the file to include is not in the structure of subdirectory myapp for some reason, you can create a mapping in CFAdmin or Application.cfc to point to it, for example:

/External. => C:\stuff\somewhere\else

And you référenceriez C:\stuff\somewhere\else\outside.cfm via:

include "/ external / outside.cfm";

--

Adam

Tags: ColdFusion

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