Mike, First let me be very clear, ColdFusion Builder doesn't come with any FTP support. This is an eclipse plugin that needs to be added to the installation.
Here is a snippet from SO that explains this. But again, you would do yourself a huge favor if your used something like Scooters Beyond Compare, it is the best thing since sliced bread. As for browsing your website, Eclipse also comes with a web Browser, all you need to do is open that view and browse to the website in question. Again I can't stress enough how the whole display the your page in CFB was a shame to begin with as it never worked for thr majority of people any way. The reason is because the project needs to be setup in a certain way, anyway long story short is gone and good riddance to that crap from CFB. CFB has the edge on everyone else because it has a library of plugins that can be added to do your workflow with, this is what makes CFB more appealing than the likes of sublime etc. But you do what you need to do, if your expecting an editor to do the FTP stuff for you, then fine go grab the basic FTP plugins and use them, but you will be using something that is not powerful or fully configurable as Beyond Compare. *Eclipse natively supports FTP and SSH. Aptana is not necessary.* *Native FTP and SSH support in Eclipse is in the "Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime" Plugin.* *Install it through Eclipse itself. These instructions may vary slightly with your version of Eclipse:* 1. *Go to 'Help' -> 'Install New Software' (in older Eclipses, this is called something a bit different)* 2. *In the 'Work with:' drop-down, select your version's plugin release site. Example: for Kepler, this is Kepler - http://download.eclipse.org/releases/kepler <http://download.eclipse.org/releases/kepler>* 3. *In the filter field, type 'remote'.* 4. *Check the box next to 'Remote System Explorer End-User Runtime'* 5. *Click 'Next'. It should now download and install.* 6. *After install, Eclipse may want to restart.* *Using it, in Eclipse:* 1. *Window -> Open Perspective -> (perhaps select 'Other') -> Remote System Explorer* 2. *File -> New -> Other -> Remote System Explorer (folder) -> Connection (or type Connection into the filter field)* 3. *Choose FTP from the 'Select Remote System Type' panel.* 4. *Fill in your FTP host info in the next panel (username and password come later).* 5. *In the Remote Systems panel, right-click the hostname and click 'connect'.* 6. *Enter username + password and you're good!* 7. *Well, not exactly 'good'. The RSE system is fairly unusual, but you're connected.* 8. *And you're one smart cookie! You'll figure out the rest.* *Edit: To change the default port, follow the instructions on this page:http://ikool.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/tips-to-access-ftpssh-on-different-ports-using-eclipse-rse/ <http://ikool.wordpress.com/2008/07/25/tips-to-access-ftpssh-on-different-ports-using-eclipse-rse/>* Regards, Andrew Scott WebSite: http://www.andyscott.id.au/ Google+: http://plus.google.com/113032480415921517411 On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 7:42 AM, Mike K <[email protected]> wrote: > > I've had enough of this damned ColdFusion Builder 3 for now. It's just > too bloody frustrating. Maybe I might come back to it, maybe not. > > The FTP/Synchronise thing is just barely something you would expect a > beginner programmer to produce. Trying to make it work is groping in the > dark because the help is not related to this product. Instructions on > setting up FTP begins : > > > 1. Right-click the project in the Navigator view. > 2. Click Synchronize > Create New Synchronize Connection. > > But there's no Synchonize option to choose from. So it's a loser right > there. The only thing i can find about uploading files to the remote > server is "Export..." but there's no help file for that. Therefore what > information goes where is just a guess. But dont get anything wrong, > because you can't change anything. There's no way to edit your ftp > settings. And what's worse once you've set up a ftp spec for a site, > you can't edit it or set up another one with that same address. Too bad > if you have to change your password for any reason. And you can't delete > an existing one and set it up again if you got your guess wrong the first > time. > > > In Dreamweaver, to upload a modified file to the site takes 2 clicks. > Select the file, then click the up arrow. It automatically creates > folders on the remote server if the folder doesnt exist and just puts the > modified file in there. > > In ColdFusion Builder - it's a bloody complicated process. Every time you > try to export a file, it downloads the whole file directory from the > remote site. If there are hundreds of files on that site, you have to wait > while it downloads all the file names, dates, etc. It doesnt remember > the last one - upload a file, make a single little change, wait while it > downloads the directory of the remote site all over again, then take a few > seconds to upload your revised file. In one case, it takes 5 minutes to > upload a 15kb file because of all that fussing about. > > I made an error the first time I set up export specs (probably forgot a > trailing '/' or something) and now I can't fix it, can't delete it and do > it again, can't synchonise at all. That site is no longer able to be > uploaded from ColdFusion Builder 3. > > I'm trying really hard, because I honestly want to be open minded about it. > But I'm not becoming a fan of ColdFusion Builder 3 yet. > > > > On Fri, May 2, 2014 at 4:48 AM, Andrew Scott <[email protected] > >wrote: > > > > > Feel your pain Mike, but perseverance can fix that at times. > > > > The root, is what I stated earlier, when I said I usually just set it to > > the root for ColdFusion and that is the wwwroot in ColdFusion itself and > > not inetpub or your projects. Yes I agree this area is not well > documented > > nor blogged, because people just don't use the line debugger and its > power. > > I guess you can lead a horse to water but you cant make them drink it. > > > > Cheers > Mike Kear > Windsor, NSW, Australia > Adobe Certified Advanced ColdFusion Developer > AFP Webworks > http://afpwebworks.com > ColdFusion 9 Enterprise, PHP, ASP, ASP.NET hosting from AUD$15/month > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Order the Adobe Coldfusion Anthology now! http://www.amazon.com/Adobe-Coldfusion-Anthology/dp/1430272155/?tag=houseoffusion Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/message.cfm/messageid:358532 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-talk/unsubscribe.cfm
