CF - Application.cfc/Application.cfm lookup order

Before writing this post, I was thinking that when coldfusion server get the request for page, It will search Application.cfm/Application.cfc in current directory until webroot by default and that is final.

But I was wrong.

By default coldfusion will search until system directory i.e. if we installed coldfusion on C:/ it will serach until C:/.

We can change this setting though coldfusion administrator.We can set the order in which ColdFusion searches for Application.cfm or Application.cfc if it is not found in the current project folder. We can set ColdFusion to search as follows:

§  default search order: ColdFusion looks for an Application.cfc/Application.cfm file from the current folder until the system root directory. On Windows, this could be C:\ and on UNIX, /opt.

§  till web root: ColdFusion looks for an Application.cfc/Application.cfm file from the current folder till web root.

§  in web root: ColdFusion looks for an Application.cfc/Application.cfm file in the current folder or web root.

We can change this settings  though coldfusion administrator.

Go to Server Settings à Server in CF admin.



Reference :
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/ColdFusion/9.0/Admin/WSc3ff6d0ea77859461172e0811cbf3638e6-7ffc.html