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Anonymous
November 26, 2009
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Newbie problems with getting a local CFB server configured

  • November 26, 2009
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This started out in another post by me as to what I thought was a port 8500 problem. I had watched the getting started with CFB video, and on that he used localhost as a Server Name and as Host Name. He then assigned port 8500 as the WebServer Port.

When I do this it comes up in the Servers windows as Stopped. If I try to start it the error I get is

'Starting localhost' has encountered a problem

Ensure that the server is not already running or any application is not using the webserver port.

So as an experiment I changed the port to 80 because the admin page does work at http://127.0.0.1/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm

The Server window at the bottom of the CFB screen then shows a Running server.

I create a small "Hello World" index.cfm page and when I hit one of of the browser tabs, Firefox and IE in my case, I get the following error,

Error while generating preview:

There is no server configured for the project myproject to which the file index.cfm belongs. Configure a server in ColdFusion in ColdFusion server settings before you proceed.

What am I missing ?

Thanks,

Dennis

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You need to tell CFB what server CFB should use in order to preview the file.

So you need to associate a server with this Project. To do so, right click on Project -> Properties -> ColdFusion Server Settings.

Here from the dropdown of 'Servers' select the server that you added in CFB.

Once that is done, ensure that your project is in document root of the server which in your case could be the Inetpub\wwwroot.

Once this is done the preview should work.

-Bhakti!

Adobe ColdFusion Team

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Anonymous
Correct answer
November 26, 2009

You need to tell CFB what server CFB should use in order to preview the file.

So you need to associate a server with this Project. To do so, right click on Project -> Properties -> ColdFusion Server Settings.

Here from the dropdown of 'Servers' select the server that you added in CFB.

Once that is done, ensure that your project is in document root of the server which in your case could be the Inetpub\wwwroot.

Once this is done the preview should work.

-Bhakti!

Adobe ColdFusion Team

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Anonymous
November 26, 2009

That appears to have me going, thank you.

This is not the most intuitive IDE environment I have used, and I have used several. Also there were many other problems besides this particular one. I was a bit too frustrated to write them down,

Thanks,

Dennis

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Anonymous
November 29, 2009

Hi Dennis,

Whenever you can please do let us know what problems you are facing with the builder. If not in this release we would surely want to fix them in the next one.

-Bhakti!

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