Has anyone ever run into this issue? I'm running lucee 5.4 latest docker image. I have a mapped directory

/myMappedDir=/var/www/myMappedDir.

But

expandPath('/myMappedDir')

returns

/var/www/myMappedDir/app/var/www/myMappedDir

It doesn't always happen, but once it starts happening I can't get it to stop until it seems to randomly fix itself? This is the mapping in the lucee-server.xml

<mapping inspect-template="" physical="/var/www/myMappedDir" primary="physical" readonly="false" toplevel="true" virtual="/myMappedDir"/>

Seem related to the mapping being a parent directory to the app root and it's a part of a docker compose mount,

haven't run into it, but once it starts happening have you tried going to CF Admin and 1. Checking the mapping defined. 2. Delete and recreate the mapping.

Tried that and it didn't seem to help.

sorry, don't have much more to offer, I don't use docker and running lucee on windows. i threw your question at ChatGPT and just in case any of its "thoughts" are useful, here is a link https://chatgpt.com/share/678718db-2f9c-800c-b81a-87f1c38585cc

When you do

expandPath('/myMappedDir')

, it actually expands

/var/www/myMappedDir

, that is, treating

/var/www/myMappedDir

a relative path from your web app root, hence giving you

/var/www/myMappedDir/app/var/www/myMappedDir

If you need the location (absolute file path) of

/var/www/myMappedDir

, you just use

/myMappedDir

e.g.

result = fileUpload( "/myMappedDir", "fileField" );

It will upload file to

/var/www/myMappedDir

Just to confirm, I have a mapped directory named

/mappedDir

and it's pointed at

/var/www/mappedDir

Assuming

/var/www/

is your web app root

expandPath('/mappedDir')

will give you

/var/www/mappedDir

if you do NOT have a mapping of

/mappedDir => /var/www/mappedDir

But if you do have a mapping

/mappedDir => /var/www/mappedDir

,

expandPath('/mappedDir')

is actually running

expandPath('/var/www/mappedDir')

so it gives you

/var/www/var/www/mappedDir

@Tomy Saman (Wu) but he is saying ExpandPath does work correctly, but then changes at some random point

/var/www/

is not the webroot, but you are correct, it it was I wouldn;t need the mapping

were you able to open that ChatGPT link? it had some points about docker, lucee and base system conflicting about path mappings

ok, maybe there is something else in the codes that doing something weird. But my main point is the different effect/result when you run

expandPath

on a normal path vs on a mapping path

I got to run, but thanks for pointing that out, I actually missed that.