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Anonymous
June 15, 2007
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Dreamweaver RDS Login won't work

  • June 15, 2007
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I've got Microsoft Vista, and I'm running ColdFusion 7 and I've got the server set up and running fine. Datasources are all working and the pages load and run locally. However, when I go into Dreamweaver's Application tab and go to look at "Databases" it's prompting me for the RDS login. When I click, expecting the login, I get an error message:

The server name or address could not be resolved.

Possible reasons:
1. The URL specified for this site's testing server may be incorrect:
http://localhost/mcleod/
2. The testing server may be incorrectly configured (for example, ColdFusion may not be running).

But here's the rub, number one is set up correctly. It's working correctly locally. The site's there, the datasource is there, it's connecting to the SQL server just fine. And number two seems fine as well. ColdFusion installed correctly, is configured correctly and is working just fine.

This is Dreamweaver CS3, and it's my first site that I've set up after purchasing CS3 and installing it clean on a new Vista machine. When I switch over to MX2004 on my XP machine, it's all good.

Is this a CS3 issue? Do I need to contact technical support? Does anyone have any idea what could be wrong?
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Anonymous
June 15, 2007
This is a problem with Vista. If you search google under ColdFusion Vista and IIS7.0 there several tutorials available on how to fix this.

I haven't had to do this, just seen them out there
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Anonymous
June 16, 2007
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Originally posted by: jhutchdublin
This is a problem with Vista. If you search google under ColdFusion Vista and IIS7.0 there several tutorials available on how to fix this.

I haven't had to do this, just seen them out there


Actually, this isn't a Vista issue. I've got it running under IIS perfectly. ISAPI filters are all in place. It's an RDS issue however, and installing the CF Server as a standalone solution worked perfectly and RDS works fine now. I was on the phone all day with Adobe over this and they helped me fix it. In case anyone else is having the problem, if you just install CF so it uses the standalone, built-in server, (the recommended Developer setup, actually, but I always have installed it under IIS for the past six or seven years... old dog and all that) it works perfectly and the datasources, tables, bindings, etc all show up fine.

Thanks for the reply though, appreciate it!

P.S. If you're still looking to setup CF under IIS, as jhutchdublin suggests, here's a link to setting up the ISAPI filters for CF 7 under Vista... http://thefalken.livejournal.com/45759.html. You can do it, but RDS won't work.
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