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robliesland
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April 29, 2010
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Simple HTML Preview

  • April 29, 2010
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I am moving to ColdFusion Builder from Dreamweaver and I am having issues with my html preview. I am trying to set up a project and give it the host header/url to use for html preview, but it keeps telling me that I don't have the ColdFusion server defined for my project. I don't really want to go through all that. I just want to tell it what host header to use. Any thoughts? Am I thinking about this wrong?

I have a project, without CFnature, whatever that is, and under properties->HTML Preview I am telling it to use an absolute URL and append the project relative path. When I try to use the browser preview, I get 'No server is configured. . . Configure a server.'

Any insight would be helpful.

PS - I tried searching for an answer for this, but didn't have any luck. If anyone has any tips on that I am open.

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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
April 29, 2010

Well if you want to use the browser preview, you need to set up a server.  That's the long and the short of it: that's the way CFB works.

However this does prompt the question as to why CFB needs a server configured to browse a web page, provided you have told the project what its root maps to, domain/URL-wise.

Can we get an explanation from one of the Adobe bods, pls?

Cheers.

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Adam

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roblieslandAuthor
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April 29, 2010

Thanks, Adam. That's not the answer I was hoping for, but I figured that might be the answer. I feel like I just need to change the way I think about things.

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Adam Cameron.
Inspiring
April 29, 2010

Yep.  It takes a coupla min to set up a server, and you only need to do it once.  So it's not exactly a hardship.

Or, like, don't bother with the embedded browser at all and just use the browser on your desktop.  I have to say I have never really understood why people test their HTML in a browser embedded in their "IDE" (or why an IDE even offers such a "feature") when they've almost always going to have a browser installed on the PC.

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Adam

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