How to: Host own coldfusion website

I have a customer who has an in-house database: foxpro. He wants a coldfusion website but doesn't want an outside hosting company. What does he need to host his own coldfusion site? A coldfusion server?

1. Reliable bandwidth to the internet
2. A server with ColdFusion
3. A system administrator who understands webhosting and ColdFusion.
If you need to ask the question, you probably do not meet the requirements for 3 and you are most likely better of using a hosting service.

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Need help to host my coldfusion website

HI all ,
I need help from you guys where do i host my website developed in coldfusion. I hosted on Godaddy.com last month and they are going to discontinue support for coldfusion from this month.
I am worrying about hosting on some other best hosting company.
My website is not yet making any revenue so please help me to find cheap price hosting company for my website.
Appreciate your help.
Thanks

I may have came across this post too late, but thought I would offer some help as GoDaddy's cutoff of ColdFusion shared hosting is coming up on 11/29/11.
There are some quality hosts out there that will continue to support ColdFusion, including Hostek, HostMySite, CFDynamics, and my company, The Small Business Authority (we were previously known as CrystalTech and have hosted CF since at least version 5).
Of course, prices will vary, but you should be able to find quality hosting with good support at an affordable price. For instance, our CF plans start at $16.95/month. You can use CF2011 as your promotional code to get four months for free so you can be confident in our hosting and support.
Good Luck!
Tommy Weber
http://webservices.thesba.com/coldfusion9.aspx

How to use Xserve to host my ecommerce website

Hi everyone,
I'm really confused on how to use an xserve to host an ecommerce website I want to start for my business. I'm familiar with webpage code and stuff, but not really with the hosting/dns type stuff. If I were to purchase an Xserve, what exactly would that allow me to do? I'm very wary of hosting my website with some of these hosts out here, and I also believe I'm going to need a reliable website capable of handling a good amount of people all at once. If anyone could please fill in the blanks for me about how I would hook the Xserve up and have it attached to my domain name (for an example we can use mydomain.com as the domain name) and how it would work with the internet coming into my house now, that would be great. I just don't understand how any of that works. THANKS!

Askacel,
We do this trick for our customers. We are an ISP that manage the Xserve's, Dns and everything,only for Mac's. Find an ISP that gives you co-location and supports Xserves, this way you can concentrate on building your commerce site and let the ISP handle server stuff.
Willem
appleisp.nl

How we set up multiple websites on OSX Server

BACKGROUND
After fiddling and futzing around for weeks (actually since last year) I've finally figured out how to set up multiple websites (virtual sites) using one port and one IP address. While there seems to be lots of discussion on this topic, it seems that the basic assumption is that one knows everything about websites, DNS and all that stuff, which I do not.
When our network was originally established the engineer set up a wiki and also configured webmail, so we had two sites, one secured for mail and the other open for Calendar and the wiki. We were not hosting any websites locally because our school website is hosted by a company in New England.
This year I wanted to set up websites for teachers and students. As great as the wiki is, there are some things it just can't do as well as a website. So I figured if I set up the sites teachers could link back and forth from one to the other. In addition kids could now start to use a real website instead of the cobbled together file mess I had when we ran a Windows network. Also iWeb is a much more accessible tool than FrontPage.
SERVER SIDE:
Snow Leopard Server - 10.6.4
There are two - actually three pieces if you want your iWeb clients to connect to the server: Server Side Web Services, DNS and, in my case, FTP.
================================================ SERVER SIDE - WEB SERVICES
If you haven't turned on Web services, you'll need to open Server Admin and do that. If you don't know how to set up web services - just reply and I'll step you through that as well.
Once web services are set up and turned on, you'll see it listed under your server’s name in the Server Admin sidebar. Click on "Web" and then click on the "Sites" tab at the top of page. This is where you list all your sites.
Click the plus button and enter the fully qualified name of your site, for example: "students.myschool.org". Don't use the defaults here (no name) - that's what got me in trouble before. BE SPECIFIC!
You'll be looking at the "General" tab (the other tabs, "Options", "Realms", etc. we'll deal with in a second).
On the "General Tab", the default IP address ("any") and port (80) is just fine. We'll run everything over port 80. (Apache figures all the virtual site stuff out - you don't need your rocket science degree for that.)
"Web Folder:" is important because this is how you'll "segment" your websites. While I would NEVER do this again, we have a solid state hard drive for the OS and a RAID array for our data files. IF you have that, make sure you do NOT use the default "Web Folder" because it will store all your files on your solid state drive. There may not be enough room, over time, on that drive. I've not experienced it yet, but it's my understanding that if the drive fills up, the server shuts down.
I store my web sites on a folder on the RAID array.
Everything else on that tab can be left as the default. (Just make sure that you have an "index.html" or "index.php" file in your web folder root, but iWeb will take care of that for you.)
I would put in your email address in the "Administrator Email:" field.
Under "Options" you really don't have to put anything. I've tested making websites with iWeb and it doesn't appear that anything needs to be checked.
Nothing needs to be entered in "Realms" as well from what I see working w/ iWeb.
The defaults in "Logging" are fine.
You can leave "Security" alone, but we do have a (self-issued) certificate listed for our webmail site.
"Aliases" is important. Under "Web Server Aliases" you enter how you want the site to respond to when users type in a URL in their web browsers.
When our web server was initially set up the engineer set up "wiki.myschool.org" on port 80 and "mail.myschool.org" on port 443. In the aliases section was nothing but a "*" (the wildcard character). That means, from what I can figure out, that the webserver will respond to these sites regardless of what is typed in the URL. (Well, something like that - point is, if you create OTHER websites, you'll NEVER get to them because the wildcard character in the "Aliases" section, in effect, grabs those web requests and redirects them to the sites that are already there.
In my case I deleted both of those wild card characters. For my "wiki.myschool.org" site, I entered "mail.myschool.org". That means if you type EITHER "wiki." or "mail.", go to the site that’s stored in the “Web Folder” we set up when those sites were created.
For "mail.myschool.org" I just DELETED the wildcard character. I wanted that site (since it was secured) only to respond to "mail." - nothing else. (You're not going to that secured site for any other reason than to get your mail.)
"Proxy" can be left blank. Have no idea what that does. As time permits I'll do some research and figure out what it's used for.
"Web Services" is if you want to provide any MORE services to this particular site. Most likely you'll want to uncheck all the boxes. For our "wiki." site, we have checked "Wikis", "Blogs", and "Calendar". For our "mail." site we have those checked PLUS "Mail".
I would create a separate "Web Folder" for each of your sites. I don't know if that's a requirement but for housekeeping purposes, I would keep the sites separated. And I SUSPECT that it's "best practice" to separate your wiki from your other websites.
SERVER SIDE - DNS
OK...now you have to make your site reachable and the only way to do that is to set up DNS so that folks don't need to type in the IP address of your web server. You need to set up DNS inside your network and, if you want folks in the outside world to reach your website, you'll need to set up an external DNS as well. I'm going to cover INTERNAL DNS - if you don't know how to set up EXTERNAL DNS - reply or email me and I'll post those instructions.
Most likely you have already created Zones for you network...all you really need to do is create "Aliases" so that when you type "students.myschool.org" your web browser will know that site resides on IP address XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX.
If you've set up Zones then you already have a "Machine" setting that translates your server’s name to an IP address and vice versa.
All you need to do is create an "Alias" (CNAME) record for, in this case, "students". You’ll see the choices for types of records when you click the "Add Record" button.
There are only two fields to configure for a record: "Alias Name" - in this case "students" and "Destination" - in this case "servername.myschool.org". (You've already entered a machine record that says "servername" = 192.168.1.x.)
That's it for Internal DNS.
SERVER SIDE - FTP
Now you have to get iWeb to communicate with the webserver.
There are only three ways iWeb will communicate with webservers: MobileMe, Local Folder and FTP Server.
Local Folder is really only practical if you want to host a website on a laptop (I was blown away initially when I found out that all Macs had a built-in web server - how neat is that?). I think there are some very cool things teachers could do with configuration, and, of course, you wouldn't need to set up any web services on the web server, but that's for another discussion. You need to set up FTP services on the web server.
Turn on and enable FTP on your webserver.
You can leave the defaults for "General", "Messages" and "Logging". "Advanced" is the only thing you want to set. I set "Authenticated Users See:" to "Home Folder Only". I set the "FTP Root" to the same root folder in which I plan to store my web sites (/VOLUMES/RAID Array/WebServer/Documents). This setting sets that folder only to be accessible via FTP.
I would suggest returning to your DNS settings and adding one more "Alias". Set "ftp." to point to your webserver. Why? So folks can edit their sites from home (see below).
CAVEAT: If you are running FTP on other servers, make sure that the settings here do not conflict with the settings on the other servers. For example, I'm running FTP on my file server so that my scanners can communicate with it. However, I configure my FTP settings by machine name and NOT "ftp.myschool.org".
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CLIENT SIDE - CONFIGURING iWEB
Now you have to configure iWeb so that it will communicate with your server.
Click on the "Site" icon so that "Site Publishing Settings" appears.
Publishing:
"Publish to:" = "FTP Server"
You can set the "Site name:" and "Contact email:" to whatever you want. But see below!
FTP Server Settings:
"Server address"=ftp.myschool.org (you could also enter in servername.myschool.org or the IP address. However, if you want folks to be able to work on the site from home, you will need to configure external DNS for that. If you use the IP address, you're out of luck for remote access to the site. (You can do it but it's beyond the scope of this discussion.)
"Username" & "Password" should be your user's network login credentials.
"Directory/Path" - this is important. Remember, you set your "FTP Root" to be "/VOLUMES/RAID Array/WebServer/Documents". If you leave this field blank then the website will be dumped into this folder. If you are only setting up one site, that may be OK. However I wanted to set up a "students" site folder, a "faculty" site folder and a separate site for our literary magazine.
THEREFORE: I have, in my ..../Documents folder (on the server), a "students" folder, a "faculty" folder, and a "litmag" folder.
SO...in my "Directory/Path:" field, I have "/faculty". That means the full path to this website is "ftp root/faculty" or "/VOLUMES/RAID Array/WebServer/Documents/faculty" (You don't need a trailing "/" character. iWeb will automatically append the folder for you user depending on what you entered in "Site Name:" in the "Publishing" area.
Website URL:
This is the root website depending on whether it is "students" or "faculty". Since iWeb will append the site name to this root website, I accomplished what I hoped to accomplish in this post (http://discussions.apple.com/message.jspa?messageID=12288561#12288561).
Faculty sites will be @ http://faculty.myschool.org/username. Students @ http://students.myschool.org/username. PERFECT!
iWeb is such a GREAT tool - NOW the kids can start using it!
I want to reiterate that this works for our school but it should work for you as well. There may be better ways to do this but it works for us.
Hope this has been helpful and you won't have to spend weeks trying to figure this all out by yourself!

OK...here's how we did it.
To get access to the website you created from outside your network there are a couple of steps.
First, you have to have a STATIC IP address from your ISP. If you have a T1 circuit, no problem...you usually get a couple of static IPs you can use. However, if you have a cable modem circuit, most likely you have a dynamic IP address which changes when you connect to the internet. Usually a static IP will cost a bit more because the ISP has to go through a couple of steps to set it up for you. But once you have the address, you now have a way for folks outside your network to connect with you.
(I’m also assuming that you use a router of some sort through which traffic flows out to the internet and that you aren’t using connection sharing or something like that.)
The next thing you need to do is have your new static IP address associated with the server on which you are hosting your website. You've probably already done that if your website works inside your network. However, you've associated a private ip (192.168.x.x, etc.) to your web server. That doesn't mean anything to folks on the outside because private IP addresses are just that - private - folks can't access them. (I won't get into VPN because that's a whole other topic.)
The way you associate your new static IP address to your web server is through some sort of dns application from your ISP. For example, we use TierraNet to manage our external DNS information. They have a web interface control panel that is very similar to the DNS interface for XServer. You can create CNAME records (aliases - other ways that folks can access your servers).
Basically you create an "A" (CNAME) record with a fully qualified domain name (e.g. webserver.myschool.org) and point it to your public IP address (XXX.XXX.XXX.XXX) which you just got from your ISP. It's going to take a while (24-48 hours) for this change to take effect. BTW, you can create as many “A” records as you want. For example mail.myschool.com and wiki.myschool.com could point to the same place.
You want to make sure that the fully qualified domain name you enter in the external dns utility matches the name you used when you created your internal dns records on your XServer.
OK...so now folks can get to your domain - but, remember, you have a private network IP scheme between them and you. You now have to tell your router that when web traffic arrives, allow it inside the network and direct it to your web server.
Let's say your public IP address is 205.100.112.50 and your web server is 192.168.0.5.
You have to create, in your router’s "Security Zone" (router companies call them different things) a couple of rules. Usually the first rule is: "Let everything inside the network get out to the web." You've probably already done that if folks inside the network can reach the internet.
You then have to tell the router to allow web traffic (port 80) into your network AND redirect that traffic to 192.168.0.5.
We use AdTran routers and they have a web interface which allows you to write "rules" affecting public and private traffic. Public is folks outside the network, private is folks inside.
AdTran calls them "Security Zones" and you modify those zones with policies.
So my "Policy" would say, in the above example, redirect traffic from my public IP (205.100.112.50) -> to my web server -> (192.168.0.5).
THEN you have to modify this policy with what AdTran calls "Traffic Selectors". You've said, OK, you can get in, but WHAT can get in?
The "Traffic Selector" is written to say: "Permit" "TCP" traffic from 205.100.112.50 only through Port 80. (That's the port that web traffic goes over. If you wanted a secure website, you'd add another traffic selector that opens port 443, for example.)
I'll tell you I'm no genius when it comes to this. I called AdTran and had them configure my router for me. I told them what I wanted done, they remoted into the router and configured it. But then I could go to the web interface and see what they did and then added rules later on when I wanted, for example, to get access to the network via Apple Remote Desktop or VPN into the network on my iPad.
I'd bet that your router has a maintenance agreement that includes this service and if it doesn't it should have.
I did find that I still had issues when I tried to set this up originally and it had to do with the ORDER of the policies. I can’t remember exactly what the issue was, but, effectively one of the policies highjacked traffic before the policy that I wanted got triggered. Simply moving them around in the list fixed that issue. So if you have this set up but still can’t access the site, check the order of your rules.
I don’t know if that helps or not, but I try to think about this stuff conceptually and then get someone to help me with the details. I work with this stuff so infrequently that I forgot how I did something 6 months or a year ago. I’m in the process of creating a wiki for the school which documents all this stuff, but that’s a major undertaking.
Cheers,
John

How do i get my website to show correctly on firefox

my website is: www.thebuildpro.com it shows up correctly on internet explorer... How can I fix it to make it show up correctly on mozzilla ? Is there a program to convert it?? Or can I just add something in the code?
Thx

First thing I notice is that the image and link paths are not computing correctly. I think this is caused by an incomplete URL in the <base> tag. You could fix that, for example,
page: http://thebuildpro.com/build_proconst_001.htm
edit: <base href="<u>'''http://'''</u>www.thebuildpro.com/">
Or you could just delete that line, since there's not a good reason for it to be there when it is hosted on your website (I think it's there because the page was saved for offline viewing at some point).

How do I transfer a website without building a new one?

how do I transfer a website without building a new one?

If you've built your site using Muse, you can choose to publish to Adobe Business Catalyst, or use the 'Upload to FTP Host' feature to upload to another hosting provider. You can also export to a local folder and use a 3rd party FTP client to upload it to the hosting provider of your choice.

Have been using Foxfire for AMcG website. Now want to edit MME website. Can't figure out how to bring up second website. Whatever I do, it keeps taking me ba

Have been using Foxfire for AMcG website. Now want to edit MME website. Can't figure out how to bring up second website. Whatever I do, it keeps taking me back to the original AMcG site.
Because I'm unable to figure out where to find the answer to this question on this website, would you mind emailing it to <sub>removed by a moderator -j99</sub>. Much obliged, for I'm working on a tight deadline and have no one else to turn to, being it's Sunday.
Please note this is a publicly available and web search indexed forum that the message appears on https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/questions/950640 you probably do not wish your email address to appear. Note it is possible to use the private messaging ssytem without disclosing your email address
[https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/messages/new?to=John99 me] [https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/messages/new?to=annmcgill you]

Sorry I not sure I understand what you are trying to do and what the problem is, are you able to give more details please.
Are you trying to upload to a site you own ?

How do I prevent a website from opening another window

A couple of websites I occasionally visit open up a second window to a spam website. I have put an entry in my Hosts file to prevent Firefox from connecting to the spam websites, so the second window is empty. However, it's still a little annoying.
I have pop-up blocking turned on. Is there anyway to completely block the opening of the second window?
If not, why not?

Thank you for taking the time to reply. I really do appreciate it.
Unfortunately, the link you posted tells me exactly nothing. My question is "How do I prevent a website from opening unwanted windows". These are full Firefox windows, just like you would get if you right clicked on a link and selected "open in a new window".
There are only two possible answers:
(A) To block unwanted windows, do this ________ (insert answer)
or
(B) It's not possible.
If the answer is (B) then the follow-up question is -- Why Not?

How do I view a website over the full screen while using the 6 plus in horizontal mode

How do I view a website over the full screen while using the iPhone 6 plus in horizontal mod?

You said you found several domain.sites files.
iWeb uses one at a time to create webpages.
Your webpages, your site, has disappeared with MobileMe.
You have to find a new host and publish there.
But to publish you need one of your domain files.
Try iWebSites to open them :
http://www.wyodor.net/_Demo/Aptana/iWebSites.html

How do you publish a website without mobile me working anymore?

How do you publish a website using iweb 09 with a moved mobile me account , when using icloud. I can't use mobile me.

Here's what you need to do:
1 - purchase a domain name (you'll need one in order to publish your website to a commercial hosting service.
2 - obtain a hosting service to publish your site to.
3 - obtain the ftp address, username and password from Customer Support of your new hosting service.
4 - set iWeb to publish to an ftp server and enter the necessary information you received from Customer Support.
An alternative to #4 would be to publish your website to a folder on your hard drive and use a 3rd party ftp client like Cyberduck (free) or Transmit to upload the website file to the server.
OT

How to 'open' previously created website to make changes?

I created a website with iWeb on another computer (I'll call it Computer A) and copied all the files onto an external hard drive. I plugged the external hard drive to another computer (Computer B) and want to edit that website, but there's no 'Open' to select from the File menu in iWeb like on other programs. This can't mean that I can make changes to that website only on Computer A, does it?? How do I access that website on Computer B??

It is not complicated at all. All you need to do is be aware that your site is created using a domain file and you need to copy that domain file to be able to update your site on any other computer. Then you can just double click on the domain file and open it.
iWeb is not lame at all. It was designed for its ease of use and one click publishing, however, it only creates html files on publishing. That is just the way it works and has always worked.
If you want anything complicated, you could consider using packages such as Dreamweaver or an html editor and write your own code.

How link my own contact card with pages ?

How link my own contact card with pages ? When i start with a new model i still have Urna Semper ...?
I the old version of pages i can link them directly but now i really dont know what i have to do ...

Susan:
If you already have a hosting service you won't need a MobileMe account.
There are two ways you can upload your web site to your server: 1 - click on the site icon in iWeb and enter the ftp address path for your server and account in the window.
Click to view full size
2 - publish to a folder on the Desktop (set the path in the same window above) and use a 3rd party ftp client like the free CyberDuck (highly regarded in this forum) to upload to your server.
As far as the domain name, go to your domain name provider and setup domain name forwarding to the site on your host server. You'll need to know the URL to the index.html file that is created along with the site folder by iWeb.
Here is some information regarding the domain name forwarding and masking (most applies to both Mac and non-Mac servers):
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Domains.html
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1164519&tstart=0
OT

How do you update iweb website when lion doesnt have iweb?, how do you update iweb website when lion doesnt have iweb?

if i upgrade to Lion how can i maintain my website??

As mentioned, you can still use iWeb.
andybish wrote:
if i upgrade to Lion how can i maintain my website??
If you are hosting it on MobileMe, current info suggests it won't exist once the transistion to iCloud occurs.

I have upgraded to a new macbook. How do I find the website I created on my previous macbook?

I have upgraded to a new macbook. How do I find the website I created on my previous macbook?

Time Machine makes a backup of every bit on your computer, unless you explicitely exclude the file.
You would know it.
The library folder is invisible as of Lion.
You want your file back?
Brace yourself, I wrote a long explanation to make you happy.
Make sure you follow the instruction character by character. It works a advertised.
Here we go.
Login as Administrator to have full control of your computer. If you do not konw how, find out.
Enter Time Machine
Once in Time Machine do Escape to leave it.
Do Command-Shift-C
You see the time Machine Backup.
Double-cick to open it.
Use list view (Command-2) to see the folders and files.
Click the triangle to open the folder with the date of the latest backup on your old computer.
Click the triangle to open the folder with the name of the Harddisk of your old computer.
Click the triangle to open folder Users.
Click the triangle to open folder with the Username on your old computer.
Do you see the Library folder?
STOP.
Open Terminal.app (in's in Applications/Utilities).
Type cd and a space
Drag the folder with your Username on the Terminal window and hit Return.
Type ls -al (and hit Return)
You'll see the contents of the home directory.
Type cd Library (UPPERCASE EL hit Return)
Type ls -al (and hit Return to make sure we're in the right directory)
Type cd "Application Support" (INCLUDING THE QUOTATIONS and hit Return)
Type ls -al (and hit Return. Scroll to see if the iWeb folder is there)
Type cd iWeb (hit Return)
Type ls -al (and hit Return)
You should see the Domain.sites2 file (actually a directory, since Terminals does not understand packages)
Type cp -R Domain.sites2 ~/Desktop/ (hit Return)
Terminal will copy the domain file to the Desktop.
Is it there? Great.
In Terminal again.
Type chflags nohidden ~/Library (and hit return to make the Library folder visible.)
In the Finder, move the domain file to Library/Application Support/iWeb/ in your Home directory (Command-Shift-H)
Double-click it to open it in iWeb.
If that does not happen, browse this forum for solutions, or wait for others to help you.
You can later move the file your own Home directory.
Do Command-Shift-Q to logout.
Practice.

HT4918 how do I move my website to the cloud so it can keep going?

Help! My website no longer works. I have a domain name registered at GoDaddy but I can't get it to work now because I guess it is part of MobileMe. How do I get my website to work now?

You will need to find a 3rd party web host to upload your website to. Depending on the version of iWeb you are using you have a couple of publishing options:
iWeb '09 (3.0.4) you can publish to an FTP Server or a local folder
iWeb '08 you can publish your website to a local folder
I have been using IX Webhosting for several years with little to no problems "usually the problem was something I did" and they have been quick to solve any issue I have come across. The have plans that start at $3.95 a mo (USD) and their customer service is top notch.
http://jeffnitschke.com/IXWebHosting.html
http://jeffnitschke.com/wordpress/2012/06/how-do-i-move-my-mobileme-site-ix-web- hosting-blog/
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