[coldbox:4134] Silent Error Handling

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-I am using SES on a shared host without access to rewrite the URL.
So, my URL's contain 'index.cfm/'.

-In my CSS I am using relative URL's to image files like this:
url(../../images/icons/map/bluegray.gif).

-My production CustomErrorTemplate template sends me an email with a
dump of the ExceptionBean

The problem I am having is that when some dynamic UI change is made
via jQuery, and the styles that include relative image paths are
applied, I am getting this error in my email:

An invalid event has been detected: [mgc.handlers.apps] The action
requested: [images] does not exists in the specified handler.

It appears that since 'index.cfm/' is in my relative CSS paths that
ColdBox is throwing an error when an image is requested from the
server. The user doesn't see any error, and the images load just
fine. I just get flooded with emails whenever someone is clicking
around in site.

I'm thinking there are two possible solutions. One is kludgey, and
the other I don’t know how to do. The kludgey solution would be to
add an onMissingAction event for the /images calls on all of my
handlers where I am having this problem. What seems like the correct
solution, but the solution I don’t know how to implement, is to add
something to my routes that ignores image requests. What is the best
way to handle this?

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Any chance your host will let you add an entry into mod_rewrite (or the ISAPI filter, if IIS)? If so, you can bypass the framework for loading static assets.

Jason Durham

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Use the tag in HTML to tell the browser the base href so you don’t get any of these errors.

Luis F. Majano
President
Ortus Solutions, Corp

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@Jason

I recently changed hosts from HostMySite.com to Hostek, so I went back and checked with Hostek and it looks like I am supposed to have the ISAPI filter. However, the version test they offer failed. I am checking with them to see what’s up. I really would like to be rewriting my URL’s. I’ll wait to see what they say.

@Louis

It appears that the CSS doesn’t “mind” the HTML. I just decided change my URL paths in my CSS to be relative to the root rather than relative to the CSS. It looks like that fixed the issue. All I am losing is portability if I ever decide to change the subdirectory the app lives in, and it wouldn’t be that big of a deal if I did.

Thanks to both of you for your help!