ColdMVC: Deploying my first app.

I just wanted to share some things I struggled with when deploying my first ColdMVC app.

1. Deploying the code to the server.
My web root on the hosted server looks like this:

->myApp
->coldMVC
->hyrule

2. Make sure the config.ini is setup correctly.
config.ini file
[default]
controller=route
action=render

[development]
development=true

[production]
datasource=myDataSourceName
development=false
sesURLs=true
urlPath=
assetPath=http://www.myDomain.com/myApp/public/
tagPrefix=c

In the block [production] you will see that sesURLs=true. This will get rid of /index.cfm on the tail of url. Example www.myDomain.com/public/

Next, I changed my urlPath to nothing because I want urls to not have the public in front of them. Example www.myDomain.com/

Finally, Since my urlPath doesn't point to the public folder any more all my assets ( css, js..etc) will be broken. So I point my assets back to the public folder. Examples http://www.myDomain.com/myApp/public/

Note: If you haven't already, make sure you create a default controller and action to hit. This will be excuted if somebody hits your base url. Example www.myDomain.com

3. Use apache or isapi rewrite rules to make the url prettier.
With out the /public/index.cfm at the end of url the app can't do routes. In order to solve this I had to make isapi rewrite rules to point anything after www.myDomain.com to the http://www.myDomain.com/myApp/public/index.cfm files so routes would work again.
.htaccess file
RewriteEngine on

#---redirect actions for www.myDomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.myDomain.com [QSA]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_NAME} ^/index.cfm$
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myDomain.com/myApp/public/index.cfm/%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA]

#---redirect assets for www.myDomain.com
RewriteCond %{HTTP_HOST} ^www.myDomain.com [QSA]
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_NAME} !^/index.cfm$
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_NAME} !(css|js|images)
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_NAME} !-f
RewriteCond %{SCRIPT_NAME} !-d
RewriteRule ^(.*)$ http://www.myDomain.com/myApp/public/index.cfm/%{REQUEST_URI} [QSA,L]

4. Make sure the production environment.txt has the production text in it.
Since my app's config.ini file has block called [production] in it the environment.txt on the hosted server needs to have the text "production" in it.

5. Remember to create a datasource.
If the datasource name is not the same as your app folder name you need to add the datasource name in config.ini
[production]
datasource=myDataSourceName

Other than the isapi rewrite rules, it was my first time writing them, deploying my first ColdMVC app went well.