This morning Ray blogged about a method to block direct requests to CFCs that would normally prompt the user to enter admin credentials to view the auto generated CFC documentation.

As I mentioned in the comments IIS 7.5 actually ships with a built in URL rewriting engine that is decently powerful and can pretty simply do this sort of request blocking.

If you're playing along at home since my my last post you should now have the latest and greatest version of ColdFusion installed successfully on IIS.

So now what? Well now we take advantage of the fact that we can create multiple sites under one root. As a refresher here is the example I mentioned in the last post:

So since I got my new Dell at home I've been using my old Dell as a 'pseudo-server' and connecting to it over my home network for local development. This has been working out fine - but there has always been something that bugged me about using the built in web server that ships with ColdFusion as a development server. Every time you wanted to create a new 'site' you pretty much have to code around the fact that you're really under one wwwroot. For example lets say you have the following directory structure: