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What's the most efficient way to redirect a user to the home page if the requested page doesn't exist?

I am using ColdFusion 9.1.

I am rebuilding a site from scratch and pointing an existing domain name to it. The site is still getting a few hits each day and I want to take advantage of that. I want to redirect those page requests to the home page, and not the error that is currently being served.

I am looking ONLY for a ColdFusion solution to move the bad request to the home page. So, if they request domain.com/BadPage.cfm?QString=XYZ, they will be moved to domain.com/.

I tried using the following method in the Application.cfc, but I couldn't get to work as described. It seemed to have no effect.

<cffunction name="OnError" access="public" returntype="void" output="true">
<cfargument name="Exception" type="any" required="true" /">
<cfargument name="EventName" type="string" required="false" default="" />
<cfif Exception>
    <cflocation url="http://www.MyDomain.cfom/">
</cfif>
<!--- Return out. ---> 
<cfreturn />
</cffunction>

In short, what is the simplest ColdFusion means to redirect bad requests?

Solution

  • Use onMissingTemplate()

    <cffunction name="onMissingTemplate">
   <cfargument type="string" name="targetPage" required=true/>

    <cflocation url="http://www.MyDomain.cfom/">
</cffunction>