Problem configuring remote server

Question

The problem I'm having is that the various pathing dialogs in the Remote Server setup seem rather amibiguous. I have tried what seems like every combination of remote and local file paths, as well as various url strings. No matter what combination I can't seem to get the file to resolve to a url that works.

Our current development configuration consists of a central server running Windows 2008 Web Server and ColdFusion 8.0.1. There are three of us using the machine, each developer having their own share on it. We each have our own set of Virtual Hosts running from the share, through IIS on said server.

This has been a great setup for us as it allows for a nearly duplicate environment to our production configuration. However, I can't for the life of me get a remote server configuration working completely. I have a secondary dev machine I use in which I am running CF9 locally, and it works perfectly (I'm aware of people saying that eclipse really doesn't want to have you develop remotely.) We don't switch our main dev server to CF9 just yet, and we want to keep the centralized dev server, so remote server seems the way to configure things.

It seems like the best scenario is to set up a server for each on of the virtual hosts I have configured. In the dialog I would set one up like:

General Settings
Server Name: foo-site.com

Host Name: dev1.foo-site.com

Other Settings

WebServer Port: 80

RDS User Name: my-username

RDS Password: my-password

Remote Server Settings

Naming Port: 2910

Username: admin-server-username

Password: admin-server-password

Document Root: (this is a confusing one, does it want a url? a local file path like my mapped drive "Z:\"? or the physical path on the server "C:\webroot\"? Could be a path relative to my eclipse install? Also, does it want a global path? or one related to this server config?)

Mappings

Local Path: (Again, similar confusion...should this be local to me, or the server? or maybe a url?)

Remote Path: (Should this be a url, and if so should it be an absolute url to the local path listed above? And what it the Local Path is the root of the virtual host, should it then be the same as document root [which doesn't seem to work]?)

Install Extensions

Remote Server Web Root: (Should this be a physical file path? should be in relation to eclipse on my machine? or from the server?)

Install Location: (This would depend on the remote server web root obviously)

I keep trying different things, and always end up with either the CF Server Settings for a project telling me the project exists outside the web root, or the sample url looks like http://[hostname]/[projectname].

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Ram Kulkarni · Accepted Answer

Document root has to be a physical path on the remote server e.g. "C:\webroot". This is the path on the remote machine and not mapped path on the machine on which CF Builder is installed.

In mappings, local path is the path on the machine on which CF Builder is installed. Remote path is the path on the remote machine, and not the URL.

e.g. if CF is installed at D:\Coldfusion on remote machine and on the your local machine (where CF Builder is installed) you have corresponding files in C:\ColdFusion, then when setting up remote server, you would set Document root to D:\Coldfusion\wwwroot and then you would create a mapping with local path as C:\ColdFusion\wwwroot and remote path as D:\ColdFusion\wwwroot.

CF Builder uses this information when you preview files and when you debug a file.

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