Straker Interactive

Staging, Live, SSURL and 404

I had a client who had a set up like this: 2 web servers 1 database/file server They wanted to have one of the web servers as the "live" server so users would do most, if not all, browsing on that server, and the second "staging" server to do all the updating of content etc. The 2 servers share the site database, and FMS file stores. One of the considerations of this is SSURLs (Search Safe URL). When a section/page is created in ShadoMX, the folder/file structure is created on the server. This means people can have a "friendly" url. EG: rather than "index.cfm?D101A4EB-F9A1-E879-4682-4D806C7C7F96" you can access the page with "section/subsection/thispage.cfm" In the clients example above, if a page is created on the staging server, the SSURL file is NOT created automatically on the live server. The way we handled this was by making use of the servers "404" template. The client was using IIS, to we set up the 404 error to point to our "/[sitename]/app_templates/bin/404.cfm" template and in ColdFusion Administrator, undersettings, put the same information in the "Missing Template Handler" In the System Pages in the Shado site tree, we made a page called "404 - File not found" The 404.cfm checks to see if the page exists in the site tree, and if it does, it writes the SSURL file, and then forwards the user on to that file. If it does not exist, it will forward the user on to the "404 - File not found" page we set up The contents of the 404.cfm:
<cfparam name="sRelocate" default="[URL to default 404 message]">

<cfset request.shado.siteName = "[sitename]">
<cfinvoke component="shadomx.core.loader" method="init">
<cfscript>
   //do we have a page to look for?
   if(len(cgi.script_Name)){
      //set up the vars we need
      qThisPage   = false;
      sThisPage   = cgi.script_Name;
      oPages      = application.shado_obj_factory.get("shadomx.core.pages.shado_obj_pages");
      oTree      = application.shado_obj_factory.get("shadomx.core.sections.buildtree");

      //is the site name at the beginning of the script?
      if(listFirst(sThisPage,"/") eq request.sitecontext.dsn){
         //if it is, take it off...
         sThisPage   = replaceNoCase(sThisPage,"/#request.sitecontext.dsn#","");
      }

      //Find if there is a page in the DB
      qThisPage   = oPages.get(page_ssurl = sThisPage);

      if(qThisPage.recordCount){
         //if we find the page, write the SSURL file          oTree.CreateSSURLPage(
            parent_circuit_uuid=qThisPage.circuit_uuid,
            page_uuid=qThisPage.uuid,
            sitename=request.siteContext.dsn,
            updateDB=true
         );
         sRelocate   = "/#request.sitecontext.dsn#/#sThisPage#";
      }
   }
</cfscript>

<cflocation url="#sRelocate#" addtoken="false">
NB: This has not been testing on a multi-language site

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