FLEX and CF Debugger setup - PLEASE HELP

Question

I can't get the line debugger for CF in eclipse to work for
the life of me. I've been trying this for over 8 hours now. I
follow the directions on all the tutorials out there on the web and
still no luck. All my CF admin settings are correct. I think it has
to do w/ the debug mappings but not sure. I have a remote CF server
and am running Flex Builder 3 off of my local laptop (so wouldn't
that mean that the server and Eclipse are not on the same machine?)
My web root is a mapped network drive to the remote CF machine
(z:\websites). I can connect to the CF RDS fine... I can use the
wizards fine... I can set the breakpoints on the CFC page fine...
but the debugger just will not show me any variables. Please help
me to understand what I am doing wrong.

Answer 1

For anyone having difficulty setting up the debugger please
follow these steps (btw all the tutorials out there are awful and
leave out important steps so I thought I'd document this to help
others out). Being a software application developer and not a
network admin these remote paths can be rather difficult to
understand.
1. uninstall any Flash player or plugins you have
2. run and install the Flash player and debugger that comes
with Flex Builder (its located in the Flex installation folder,
mine was under C:\Program Files\Adobe\Flex Builder 3\Player\win).
You'll see 3 files, but only need to install Flash Player Active X
and Plugin
3. Ensure you'r debugger and tester are working (CF line
debugging is enabled). In Windows Preferences under Adobe -->
RDS click the 2 test buttons.
4. Install CFEclipse (to be able to get code hints and have
Eclipse color code cfm and cfc's like DreamWeaver does)
5. Make sure you have 2 breakpoints in the section you want
the debugger to stop. I was using 1 and on an empty space and that
wasn't stopping on the breakpoints. Also make sure the breakpoints
are on a coldfusion command line.
6. If you are using localhost don't add anything to the
mappings section other than
http://localhost:(your port
number, if you run CF admin you will see the port number in your
URL). If you have a CF server remotely though this is the TOUGH
part. It took me days to figure out my mappings. I'll just give you
my setup and work with that to figure out you're own.
I mapped my remote server drive to Z:\ and my WWWroot is
z:\websites so the correct Eclipse path = z:\websites.
The correct Coldfusion path is /websites (don't ask me why or
how, but anything other than this was not working)
7. Run the debugger by clicking the right arrow next to the
debug icon, select Other and select CF(launch a new config is you
dont have one already). When you set it up and press "Debug"...
press F11 to run a browsing session. Navigate to the page you set
breakpoints for and the debugger should work!
I hope this helps and saves others the agony of playing
around with mappings.