relative path to images - ColdFusion

I am stumped and have been for too long.

1. mysite/ckfinder/ - the path to ckfinder
2. mysite/sites/images/ - the path to my images

ckfinder and my image directory (userfiles) are at the same level.

Do the images have to be located in the subdirectory of ckfinder? If not, how in the world do I map this with baseurl and basedir? I have tried every combination imaginable - except the right one.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

Fri, 11/13/2009 - 12:50

wiktor

Joined: 16/07/2007

Posts: 1641

Re: relative path to images

rboudwin wrote:I am stumped and have been for too long.

1. mysite/ckfinder/ - the path to ckfinder
2. mysite/sites/images/ - the path to my images

ckfinder and my image directory (userfiles) are at the same level.

Do the images have to be located in the subdirectory of ckfinder? If not, how in the world do I map this with baseurl and basedir? I have tried every combination imaginable - except the right one.

Your help is greatly appreciated.

I need some more details to give you correct settings (e.g. absolute paths to mentioned directories).

Let's say your website is located under /www/mysite (this is an absolute path to this folder, in other words example.com points to /www/mysite), then:

baseUrl = /sites/images/
(path relative to document root)
baseDir = /www/mysite/sites/images/
(absolute server path to the directory above)

Wiktor Walc
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Fri, 11/13/2009 - 14:16

rboudwin

Joined: 17/12/2007

Posts: 17

Re: relative path to images

config.baseUrl = "http://www.mysite.com/sites/images/userfiles/"
config.baseDir = "C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/sites/images/";

This is where ckfinder is located:
C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/ckfinder/

This is where my site images are located:
C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/sites/images/

This is what worked:
config.baseUrl = "/sites/images/";
config.baseDir = "/inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/sites/images/";

Wed, 11/18/2009 - 18:00

rboudwin

Joined: 17/12/2007

Posts: 17

Re: relative path to images

Thank you. I used your example - AND it WORKS! Thank you.

For those of you using ColdFusion, I wanted to document how I got session variables working for different image directories (folders).

application.cfm (located in the same directory where you are using ckfinder)

<cfquery name="sites">
select imagedir . . .
from . . .
</cfquery>

<cfoutput>
<cfset session.ckBaseUrl = "/sites/images/#sites.imagedir#/">
<cfset Session.ckBaseDir = "/inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/sites/images/#sites.imagedir#/">
</cfoutput>

config.cfm:

Note that I do not need cfoutput or # on this page inside the script.

if (isDefined("Session.ckBaseUrl"))
   config.baseUrl = Session.ckBaseUrl;
else
   config.baseUrl = "/sites/images/";

if (isDefined("Session.ckBaseDir"))
   config.baseDir = Session.ckBaseDir;
else
   config.baseDir = "/inetpub/wwwroot/mysite/sites/images/";

ckfinder/application.cfm and application.cfc
and
ckfinder/core/connector/cfm/application.cfm and application.cfc:

Note that there are two sets of identical files (application.cfm and application.cfc) in different locations that both need to be updated.

Note that sessionmanagement and clientmanagement are set to "yes" rather than "true" for CF8.

<cfapplication
   Name = "UseTheSameAsYourSite"
   clientmanagement="Yes"
    sessionmanagement="Yes"
   ApplicationTimeout = "#CreateTimeSpan( 0, 0, 5, 0 )#"
   SessionTimeout = "#CreateTimeSpan(0,0,45,0)#"
   SetClientCookies = "true"
>

That's it for session variables.

I hope this helps someone else using ColdFusion.