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How do I set up a virtual-mapping to a resource on a remote server in the built-in webserver?

Our live setup uses IIS and virtual directories to access things like images or pdfs stored on a another server. We are trying to set-up something similar using the built-in webserver with the development edition of CF9.

So far I can successfully use cfdirectory to dump what files are on that remote source, which I had to make the CF9 app server log-on as me to do.

I can copy the folder from the remote server to my local PC and add a virtual-mapping entry to jrun-web.xml and that works fine, though this is not ideal for our purposes.

<virtual-mapping>
  <resource-path>/login/images/directory/*</resource-path>
  <system-path>C:/Users/[MyUserName]/Desktop/directory</system-path> 
</virtual-mapping>

However I cannot map directly to that remote server. I tried

<virtual-mapping>
  <resource-path>/login/images/directory/*</resource-path>
  <system-path>\\[remoteServer]\images\directory</system-path> 
</virtual-mapping>

And 

<virtual-mapping>
  <resource-path>/login/images/directory/*</resource-path>
  <system-path>//[remoteServer]/images/directory</system-path> 
</virtual-mapping>

And I tried mapping a network drive

<virtual-mapping>
  <resource-path>/login/images/directory/*</resource-path>
  <system-path>Z:/images/directory</system-path> 
</virtual-mapping>

All of which result in 404s on anything inside /login/images/directory/

Solution

  • Dev should mirror production in my opinion. It avoids going live with indorseen issues. I would highly recommend using IIS in db as you have in live.