SES Not Enabled in CF8 by Default

This is a follow up for my previous post regarding the ability to create SES (Search Engine Safe) URLs with Coldfusion. If you are using the beta version of Coldfusion 8 (aka: Scorpio), these setting are not on by default. You will have to open up your web.xml file and make uncomment the following lines;

<!-- begin SES --->
  <servlet-mapping id="coldfusion_mapping_6">
     <servlet-name>CfmServlet</servlet-name>
     <url-pattern>*.cfml/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-mapping id="coldfusion_mapping_7">
    <servlet-name>CfmServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.cfm/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
  <servlet-mapping id="coldfusion_mapping_8">
    <servlet-name>CFCServlet</servlet-name>
    <url-pattern>*.cfc/*</url-pattern>
  </servlet-mapping>
<!--- end SES -->

You will also notice that the mappings are now called "coldfusion_mapping_#" rather than "macromedia_mapping_#" as noted in the adobe tech note : ColdFusion MX 7 and Search Engine Safe (SES) URLs You can find the web.xml in one of the two places:

• Standalone Install:cf_root\wwwroot\WEB-INF
• EAR\WAR installation:application root\cfusion-ear\cfusion-war\WEB-INF

Remember you must restart your server to have the changes take place.

Until next time ...