Welcome to the wondrous land of Coldfusion.
I am going to start a the beginning which might be too basic, and I might get some of this wrong, but it will be close.
Coldfusion is actually 2 products. They have changed this moving forward, but there is some confusion.
Coldfusion Studio is a text editor, replaced by Homesite+ and Dreamweaver. This won't serve any pages.
Coldfusion Server is an application server. This works in concert with a web server to build web pages, and send them to a client.
The web server (like IIS, Apache, and others) takes requests (http requests) and tries to serve them up . It looks at the mime type of the file (on PCs defined by the extension of the file requested) and figures out which "helper app" can handle that file. The helper apps are registered in IIS either on a sitewide basis, or on a folder by folder basis.
.htm files IIS knows how to handle.
.pl files it sends to perl
.cfm files are handled by Coldfusion server.
<CF_TOOMUCHINFO>On my server, I have changed the default handlers to send .htm and .pdf files through Coldfusion as well as .cfm. This allows me to add cold fusion code to .htm files, and to add cold fusion access protections to pdf files.</CF_TOOMUCHINFO>
To set up Coldfusion server, I install IIS first, then install Coldfusion server. By doing it in this order, the CF installer sets up most of the IIS changes that need to be made.
To test if cf is running, you can run the cf administration page, or put a test cf page in your webroot folder and point a browser at it.
Does this help?
Jerry Johnson
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/08/04 10:39AM >>>
Hello,
Thank You, I almost did feel forgotten. : (
I am really excited about Coldfusion but do not know where to start.
The only thing I have done so far is install dreamweaver and coldfusion, and
I guess I have the coldfusion set up correctly.
Q 1)How do I verify that coldfusion is doing the serving of the pages? Can I
pull up some of the example pages from coldfusion and if they work then
coldfusion is working properly? IIS will not serve up .cfm pages right?
I am also really wanting some beginner books to start reading and some basic
beginner pages to build like doing some forms and other entry level stuff.
Any advice on books, PDF docs to read first,etc....?
Wayne
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From: Jerry Johnson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, June 07, 2004 4:46 PM
To: CF-Newbie
Subject: Re: CF Beginner books...?
Wayne, I haven't forgot you, but I will need to look through some books
tonight at home to make a serious recommendation.
The one book I have that is indispensable is Advanced Coldfusion 5
Application Development by Ben Forta.
Any book he puts out is worth reading.
And if you are in a town with a Cold Fusion Users Group (CFUG), it is a
great help.
Jerry Johnson
>>> [EMAIL PROTECTED] 06/07/04 03:25PM >>>
Hello,
Can someone tell me of a good way to learn how to install, setup, configure
colfusion. Learn tags,etc... a lot of the basic stuff? Perhap a book that
may have a tutorial web site project to do with coldfusion or an IDE
project?
Thanks,
Wayne
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