Often when we deploy a coldbox website we fire up commandbox, create a webserver and put NGINX in front to route our application requests to the correct lucee instance. We never experienced any problems when configuring search engine safe (SES) url’s. Just to remind you: instead of writing this

https://mysite.nl/index.cfm?event=myhandler.myaction

we can rewrite this to something more friendly such as

https://mysite4u.nl/myhandler/myaction

So we proxy our request via Nginx to a lucee coldbox application and use some rewrite rules as described in the coldbox manual. Recently we had a slightly different configuration: apache in front of an old-fashioned standard lucee standard install on Linux. Again, we followed instructions in the same coldbox manual but NO success…

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