Is it possible to rewrite url using ColdFusion?

Question

I have got a requirement for generating user friendly urls.I am on IIS.

My dynamic URLs looks like,

www.testsite.com/blog/article.cfm?articleid=4432

Answer 1

First, I hate to recommend reinventing the wheel. Webservers do this and do this well.

Cold Fusion can do something like this with #cgi.path_info#. You can jump through some hoops as Adam Tuttle explains here: Can I have 'friendly' url's without a URL rewriter in IIS?.

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Option #2: My Favorite: OnMissingTemplate..

Only available to users of Application.cfc (I'm pretty sure .cfm has no counterpart to onMissingTemplate).

You can use this function within application.cfc and all affected pages will throw any "missing" urls at this event. You can then place

mt_blog.cfm can have contents like, if your url is say just like /blog/How-to-train-your-flea-circus.cfm

  select bBody,bTitle,bID
    from Blog
   where urlname = 




...

Or if you use a url like /blog/173_How-to-train-your-flea-circus.cfm (where 173 is a post ID)

  select bBody,bTitle,bID
    from Blog
   where bID =