hey guys, I'm trying to access a component that's in a previous folder, but ../ doesn't seem to work. any ideas?

the component is in folder /root/components, and i'm invoking from /root/demo and going back a folder doesnt work (can't start the component with a dot).

any ideas?

thanks!

use root relative and start the path with "/"

are you trying to use an include? From my experience, you can't use relative paths with coldfusion includes.

U must use abs path to component, no includes, send your script I will try to help.

Hey I figured it out. I added a variable to application.cfm relative to the root, and went from there to link the component.

and yes, you can use relative paths with <cfinclude>

The problem was that directories are separated by dots instead of slashes when calling coldfusion component so having 2 dots in a row (../) would cause an error.

thanks for the replies!

components are relative to the root