Dreamweaver CS4 and Coldfusion 8 - help on configuration

Question

Hi Guys,
I'm not a Coldfusion user and I cant find anything from the support docs. I hope you can shed some light on my issue. I really need some help on this.
Here's my set up:
Dreamweaver CS4/CS3 installed on a Win XP Pro SP2 machine
Coldfusion 8 installed on Windows 2003 server (http://[servername]:8500). IIS is also running on the server.(http://[servername])(Testing Server)
Coldfusion 8 is located in C:\Coldfusion
wwwroot = C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot
Coldfusion is on Trial mode right now. Installed as a self-contained server (first radio button in installation)
Built in webserver was selected also during the installation
RDS Password enabled
Issue:
When I define a site in Dreamweaver CS4/CS3, I cannot connect to the Coldfusion part of the testing server.
I tried both Local/Network and FTP but I can't connect.
Here's the sample information the i put in the site definition of Dreamweaver under the Advanced Tab.
1st example:
Category: Testing Server
Access: FTP
FTP Host: [servername]:8500
Host Directory: /test
username: [username]
password: [password]
URL Prefix: http://servername:8500/test
** I tried checking and unchecking the checkboxes under password
Error: FTP Error Occured
2nd example:
Category: Testing Server
Access: Local/Network
Testing Server Folder: [servername]:8500\test
URL Prefix: http://servername:8500/test
Here's the interesting part on this setup. When I go to the Basic tab to test the connection for the testing server, I get this message, "[servername]:8500\temp.html contains an invalid path". After I hit OK, "The URL Prefix test was successful." message appears
My Questions:
what's wrong with my setup? Is my prefix correct?
what else do i need to configure?
is Coldfusion conflicting with the IIS on my server? Should I configure Coldfusion to work with IIS rather than setting it up as a built in webserver?
What questions do I need to ask? XD
I hope someone can help me on this or guide me to the right path. I can access the files when type http://servername:8500 on the browser though.
Help please? Thanks in advance!
-dis

Answer 1

Port 8500 is the port the built in web server is listing to to respond to client requests.  To view ColdFusion code on the server you would put http://servername:8500/myCFMLfile.cfm in a browser.
To have your Dreamweaver help you write these files you just need to tell it how you want to connect to servername.
For FTP you would need FTP enabled on servername and be able to FTP to c:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\ on servername.  Then you would set up something like this in Dreamweaver
FTP HOST: servername
Host Directory: ???
(depends on what your FTP root is for the FTP server on servername and how it relates to c:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\
username: ...
password: ...
URL Prefix: http://servername:8500/
(What you would put into the URL of a browser.)
For Local/Network you just write the file to the c:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\ directory on servername.  This assumes that this directory is shared and available to users over the network.  Which it probably is by the little known drive hidden share default on most windows systems.
Access: local/network
Testing Server Folder: \\servername\c$\ColdFusion8\wwwroot\
(Or other UNC path to the desired network folder)
URL Prefix: http://servername:8500/
(Still what you put into the URL of a browser)
Message was edited by: Ian Skinner
Message was edited by: Ian Skinner