[CommandBox 4.6.0+00003 ] trouble with setting Aliases

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I’m trying to set up command box for a legacy site. Normally when running it through IIS I would set up two virtual directories.

`

“aliases” : {
“/external” : “src/external/public”,
“/resource” : “src/resource”
}

`

But they don’t seem to work, when I manually try to set them up through commandbox commands it doesn’t throw an error, if I try to do the full path “C:\websites\app\src\external\public” it throws a Access not Denied error.

is there something else I have to configure to to get them to work properly?

Full Server.json

`

{
“JVM”:{
“minHeapSize”:“1024”
},
“web”:{
“http”:{
“port”:“8080”
},
“aliases”:{
“/external”:“src/external/public”,
“/resource”:“src/resource”
}
}
}

`

Full server.adobe2018.json

`

{
“name”:“adobe2018”,
“debug”:true,
“web”:{
“host”:“127.0.0.1”,
“webroot”:“src/public”,
“http”:{
“port”:“8080”
},
“welcomeFiles”:“default.cfm”
},
“app”:{
“cfengine”:“adobe@2018”
},
“JVM”:{
“javaVersion”:“openjdk8”
}
}

`

same thing occurs on different cfengines so I’m presuming I misunderstood how aliases work

2

Looks like relative aliases are relative to the web root, not the server.json file. If you do a --debug start you’ll be able to see some logging when the aliases are created which should show you the full path that’s being used.

3

Awesome thank you, that resolved my issue.

One other thing to note was that I wasn’t able to get inheritance to work with having a server.json and an engine.json, and maybe I had just misunderstood the documentation but I was thinking that would originally work.

4

I wasn’t able to get inheritance to work with having a server.json and an engine.json

Sorry, I have no idea what that means. engine.json is not a thing.

maybe I had just misunderstood the documentation

What docs? link?

5

I wasn’t able to get inheritance to work with having a server.json and an engine.json

Sorry, I have no idea what that means. engine.json is not a thing.

Originally I had a server.json, server-adobe2016.json, server-lucee5.json (the different server engines is what I meant)

maybe I had just misunderstood the documentation

What docs? link?

Got some paths crossed when I was thinking it would always look for a server.json, and if you specified a server-engine.json it would also pull in some arguments from the server.json

Thank you Brad for the assistance

6

Ahh, so you meant a server-customServername.json file. Yeah, there’s no inheritance there. If you do

start serverConfigFile=server-customServername.json

Then ONLY that file is used.

If you want to have a base file with just some simple things that change between servers, then look into using environment variables