Peter, If you are developing on an XP machine locally and will be working on more then 1 site, I suggest installing Apache locally and creating a virtual site for each of the sites that you will be working on. This way you can more closely replicate the production environment, even if the production environment is running IIS.
You can also use the build in web server, but I've never used it myself, as I found it to be very hard to configure. You can also use IIS as the webserver, but you will be limited to a single site, and will either have to use a third party utility that lets you switch configurations, or use subfolders to develop multiple sites. This, of course, means that it will be harder to match the production environment. BlueDragon is an alternate CF server, and you would still need a separate webserver with it, I believe. There are also some incompatibilities between their support of CF and Macromedia's, so if your production environment is using Macromedia CF, you would want to use the same version on your development environment. Russ > -----Original Message----- > From: Peter Donahue [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Monday, April 09, 2007 2:47 PM > To: CF-Talk > Subject: Coldfusion Installation, is local server needed? > > Good afternoon everyone, > > I use Studio MX which includes Dreamweaver and Coldfusion for creating > Web pages. I'm wondering if in order to install Coldfusion on my local > machine if this is an add-on for Studio MX or Eclipse in the case of > CFEclipse. > > My impression is that one first needs to install server software such > as > IIS, Appachi, or Blue Dragon for the Coldfusion module to run on one's > machine used for site development. I currently create my pages locally and > upload them to a remote server where they can be tested in the background > prior to making them available to the public. Again my question is > assuming > I develop my pages in the manner described above can I install CF locally, > or do I first need to install server software before installing CF? I hope > this question makes sense. I received a version with Studio MX, but wasn't > sure if I could have installed it when I installed Studio MX, or if I > would > first need to install IIS or another server program. > > Peter Donahue > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| ColdFusion MX7 by Adobe® Dyncamically transform webcontent into Adobe PDF with new ColdFusion MX7. Free Trial. http://www.adobe.com/products/coldfusion?sdid=RVJV Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/message.cfm/messageid:274890 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/CF-Talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.4
