Site Definition quesiton regarding using server technology

I just bought the book: Cold Fusion Web Application
Construction Kit and for the tutorial it's asking me to define a
site and click the radio button "Yes, I want ot use a server
technology" and I choose Cold Fusion. It then goes on to ask what
the address is of my testing server. While I've used Dreamweaver
for many years, I have never used a testing server as far as I
know. I create the pages, preview in browser, then upload. Is this
test server needed for me to use ColdFusion in Dreamweaver?
Also, this book says I should have ColdFusion installed on my
machine. Is this needed if my Web host has it on his server? I'm on
Mac OS 10.4
Thanks,
Bob

Yes you need to have CF installed for you to preview and also
to test
locally. Otherwise you have to put the pages to the remote
server, and test
there which is not a good way to go.
Paul Whitham
Certified Dreamweaver MX2004 Professional
Adobe Community Expert - Dreamweaver
Valleybiz Internet Design
www.valleybiz.net
"bobmcinnis" <[email protected]> wrote in
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news:ecd6of$et8$[email protected]..
>I just bought the book: Cold Fusion Web Application
Construction Kit and
>for
> the tutorial it's asking me to define a site and click
the radio button
> "Yes, I
> want ot use a server technology" and I choose Cold
Fusion. It then goes on
> to
> ask what the address is of my testing server. While I've
used Dreamweaver
> for
> many years, I have never used a testing server as far as
I know. I create
> the
> pages, preview in browser, then upload. Is this test
server needed for me
> to
> use ColdFusion in Dreamweaver?
>
> Also, this book says I should have ColdFusion installed
on my machine. Is
> this
> needed if my Web host has it on his server? I'm on Mac
OS 10.4
>
> Thanks,
>
> Bob
>

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>
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My iMac hard drive recently failed and had to be replaced.
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Thus, I'm unable to manage this site in Dreamweaver (reinstalled on the new hard drive).
In some forum threads, there are references to "manually recreating the site definition." How do I do this?
Thanks!

paintwlight wrote the following:
Does Putting the site to the remote server constitute an Export, whereby a .ste file would have been created during the Put process and, therefore, exist on the remote server?
No. Hit F1 and search for Export.
If so, I assume that if I copy the .ste file currently on the remote server and save it locally (into Library:Application Support:Adobe:Common:9:Sites:Site Prefs), all will be well and Dreamweaver will once again be able to manage the site.
DW can manage the site after you have defined the site as mentioned
earlier. It does not need the .ste files at all. Those are created by
the user via the Export feature and are not used by DW itself.
Gosh, I wish I would have known about the .ste file before my hard drive died. This seems like way too much responsibility to put on one teeny tiny little file -- especially one that's not kept with the rest of the web site files.
The .ste file contains only the paths to your site and the login
information - if you choose to include that information. It does not
contain any of the actual files. DW does not act as a backup or archival
program. You need to keep backups of your entire site (including source
files used to create the site, such as Photoshop/Fireworks layered
images, Flash .fla files, etc...) as well as backups of the .ste files.
HTH
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