Hi,
Im a current customer of gear host and for the most part Im pretty satisfied with thier service however I was wondering if any other gear host customers are able to use the CFFILE tag on their Cold Fusion servers.

Thanks

anyone??

Nope, can't use it either they have it disabled. Most hosts will do this in a shared enviroment because of security issues.

sbm,
Yes CFFILE is disabled, while we do have a solution in place that will allow this to be enabled it isn't fully tested just yet.

The reason why CFFILE is disabled with us, as with most hosts, is because when running ColdFusion tags they run in the security context of the CF Service NOT the actual security account which instantiated the instance, like ASP, Perl, PHP, etc. Thus CFFILE has permissions to all sorts of things, a quick solution would be to implement the CF sandbox advanced security but this has been known to have issues.

What are you using CFFILE for, could we give you access to using some sample code and the ASP equiv of Scripting.FileSystemObject which is fully supported?

I want to use CFFILE to give my customers the ability to edit their websites by uploading images, documents, text etc.. are you suggesting that I use a mix of .cfm and .asp pages? if so I really rather not do that because Im not all that familiar with coding asp pages.

Hopefully soon you guys will work the bugs out of the CF sandbox security method and figure out how to make it work for you.

I would also like to know if you ever plan on giving access to RDS

Thank You

RDS??