Basic question about commandbox server aliases - is the only way to set an alias to a network location is to map a drive letter to that network location?

what would be your alternative way of pointing to that network location?

A UNC path can be used for virtual directories in IIS. As aliases are the 'substitution' for virtual directories, I would like to use the UNC path but apparently that doesn't work. Unless I'm missing something. So, perhaps I am confirming that only local drive letters may be used. I am attempting to troubleshoot the reason why my previously created drive mappings to network paths used to work. Trying to discover any 'work-arounds'.

Are you getting an error?

I appreciate the reply @bdw429s. There is no error and I didn't originally make any config file changes. The CF will not start up, it just hangs until I either physically disconnect from the network when in the office or disconnect the VPN to my office when remote. ... config snip "aliases":{ "/common" : "C:\\websites\\common", "/forms" : "C:\\Websites\\shared\\forms", "/images" : "C:\\Websites\\shared\\images", "/screeningcal" : "C:\\Websites\\shared\\screeningCal", "/shared" : "C:\\Websites\\shared", "/testbox" : "C:\\ProgramData\\testbox", "/portaldocs" : "I:\\PortalDocs" } If I remove the "portaldocs" alias from the config, the CF server starts without issue. If I added back in, cf startup hangs, disconnect from network, cf starts, I reconnect to network, references to portaldocs works just fine. I've remapped the network drive using a different letter to no avail. [Network admin insists no changes to permissions / firewall, etc.]

I think I know what your hitting

Thanks Brad. I'd prefer not to map a drive letter and point to the UNC path. I didn't see an example and was having trouble with the current method. So you are saying UNC paths can be used! Excellent!

As far as I know it should work.

UNC paths work great! Also, although I added "runwar.args":"--resource-manager-file-system-watcher=false", server was still hanging. "/portaldocs" path contains too many files/folders. Adding more specific aliases, ie. "/portaldocs/2022/" :"\\\\nt2/e/portalDocs/2022" - seems to work better as there are fewer files. ( I also didn't realize that the 'alias key' could include extended paths! ) This appears to be a working solution. Thanks for your help Brad! @bdw429s

Are you on CommandBox 5.5.2?

5.5.1

That's your problem

Seems like I just updated .. of course there is a newer version.