Testing Server 3

[coldfused]

I want to set up a Coldfusion Testing/Development server on our local network and need some help.

Say we have a Windows XP machine with Coldfusion and WAMP installed. We want to use that machine as a file server and a COldfusion Testing server that we can browse to locally and test Coldfusion pages in a browser.

We have extra IP addresses that we can dedicate to that machine.

At tthe end of the day we would like to be able to browse from our machine through http I guess and test on the development server as if we were doing it on our web server.

I have no idea where to start to get this to work. Any ideas or help is appreciated.

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[imstillatwork]

You need the following set up on the test server.

IIS / Appache
ColdFusion
Database

So you need to install coldfusion, configure the http server, and set up a database server.




Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

Phase 1: Read the CFML Reference
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!

 

[coldfused]

From a local network how would I browse to the testing server and view coldfusion templates in the browser?

http://computername

?

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[coldfused]

What about installing Coldfusion and having IIS know where to pull the CF templates from to make them work? Do the files have to be stored in the CF

http://wwwroot

or IIS

http://wwwroot?

Something about virtual directories?

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[TamedTech]

http://serveripaddress

would do the job :-D, or you can set DNS on the server to support a domain name.

If you want to get some real server based experiance, MS do a free 360 day trial edition of Win2k3 which would be great, they also do a free version of SQL Server 2005, and you can download the developer edition of ColdFusion for free too, this means you can get a full server setup running for a year and it wont cost a penny :-D

Rob

 

[imstillatwork]

browse to the server by IP

http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx

You tell IIS what the sites are. Installing CFMX also installs the required items ti work with IIS.

When you set up a site in IIS, you specify what folder the files are stored in.

When you install CFMX, you tell it to work with IIS.

once you get that working set up your dbms or use access.


Kevin

http://www.lot-o-nothin.com/cfml/

Phase 1: Read the CFML Reference
Phase 2: ???
Phase 3: Profit!

 

[ecobb]

I think you're putting the cart before the horse here. To elaborate on what's already been said, you first need to set up an Intranet server. Forget about CF, this a networking issue. Once you have the server set up and running on the network correctly, you should be able to just type in the server name or IP address into your browser to access it's default website from your local network. Once that's working, then just install CF on it and make your CF site the default site in IIS (or whatever you're using).

Hope This Helps!

ECAR
ECAR Technologies

http://www.ecartech.com

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[coldfused]

Thanks guys.

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