cfajaximport ‘Coldfusion’ is not defined error

Written in March 2011 and kept here as it was. Some of what follows has been overtaken by events.

A tip for anyone who’s getting a “‘Coldfusion’ is not defined” error on Coldfusion 8/9 when using cfajaximport: check your virtual directories.

I spent some time this morning trying to work this one out but it was a simple solution in the end.

What was confusing me was that I could view the source of my CFML file in Firefox…

…and when I clicked on the script links, I could access the corresponding code…

Yet somehow the Javascript wasn’t working.

The solution was simple – although the CFIDE virtual directory was mapped correctly in Coldfusion Administrator…

…there was not an equivalent in IIS.

I added the virtual directory to IIS and now Bob is my proverbial uncle – cfajaximport works just fine.

I’m not an expert on Apache/Tomcat etc but I suspect the same issue crops up on that platform and can be fixed similarly easily.