Found an issue that if you have a file called aaa.cfm (for example) placed in the ColdFusion MX default server webroot (/opt/coldfusionmx/wwwroot), have the default server disabled with cacherealpaths=false and have another web server (Apache or Sun ONE) configured to use it point at a document root (ie /www/site1) the file aaa.cfm will still be served up. Likewise if you place an index.cfm in the CFMX webroot it will override the file in you /www/site1 directory. Looking into if this needs to be raised as a bug.

On the Macromedia site there is a TechNote titled
Building the Apache Connector for JRun4 and ColdFusion MX.
I’ve recently had to do this on a RedHat Enterprise 3 system with Apache 1.3 and had issues with it failing at the SSL/Kerberos point. This
is fixable and caused by a difference in the way RH ES3 has been layed out.

As you may have noticed the site has got some more stuff published now. The “Also” and “About” pods are both now up. The ColdFusion and Diabetes both have content in with a new tutorial (Windows 2000 System Dependencies) published.

The portfolio section, including archives, and the archived posts are 2 remaining things to be done before I can then start on new content.

That might get slightly delayed as a new release of office-humour.co.uk is due with a nice new, slick look and feel, full RSS feeds, MySQL backend (no more crappy MS Access). It’s 80% complete now and should be appearing in a browser near you soon.

Edit 22:04 - Also now on some posts you’ll see an extra link in the footer section called “Alias”. If I’ve created an alias for a post you can link to it via a shorter, less complex link, like: www.flatpackedworld.co.uk/go/alias_name. You can still link to the full entry by using the post title as well.

As you’ll have probably seen by now, the next Star Wars film has it’s official title. Revenge Of The Sith. Looking forward to seeing what they do with this one. The original 3 are of course better, though the new “prequels” do fill a hole and the transformation to Vader should be good. Now all we have to do is wait until May 19, 2005.

I’ve written up a couple of tutorials which you can now have a look at. Both are on EasyCFM.com but I’ve duplicated them here.

• Reset Lost Admin Password
• Change Developer Edition IP – 5 & MX

Going to have a new pod for all this stuff and some new content as well soon.

Picked up off Ray’s blog, and subject says it. The Galleon thing looks good, shame my subs ran out

Go see it.

Farnborough airshow is running at the moment and I’m working in an office about 3 miles away. We’ve just had a 30 minute display by the Red Arrows and it was amasing. At one point flying over the office at no more than 1,000 feet.

Photos to follow once I’ve sorted out the image manipulation stuff.

If you’re using version 3.5 of the Blog CFC you can get Apache to create some nice URL to access posts which you’ve created aliases for.

Create a .htaccess file in you root directory and pop in it the following:

You can try it if you like.

Well here it is, another new design. Nice and simple this time, no clutter. Got the very nice Blog CFC by Raymen Camden powering it (with some mod’s of course). Hopefully it’ll stay a bit more upto date as well.

Going to bring in all the old stuff from the old blog, but that’ll take some time. Also you can expect some code examples, tutorials, my recent experiences with getting CFMX, Apache 1.3 and RHES3 going.

Still working on the layout a bit, like the paragraphs still merging into one, but hey. It’ll get there, as will the admin bits, like adding smiley support and some kind of psuedoHTML editor, either this one or that one.

Tim Berners-Lee, the inventor of the World Wide Web and irector of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) has received a knighthood.

Congratulations to Tim and thanks, after all without him this wouldn’t be here.