Is there anybody out there who can give me a simple but
detailed
understanding of how exactly RDS works and what I need to do
to
configure it properly?
I am trying to set up a new project in my Dreamweaver 8. I
usually use
my locally running developer edition of ColdFusion and have
no trouble
with RDS for these sites. For this new site however, I am
working on a
remote development server running ColdFusion. I can not for
the life of
me figure out the proper combination to enable RDS with this
remote
server.
As best as *I* can tell, the remote serer has RDS enabled,
the check box
is selected in the CF Administrator. I have tried every
combination I
can think of to define the 'root' path in the Dreamweaver
site panel to
connect to this site. The site configures fine for "Site",
"Document
type" and "Testing Server", but when I try to provide the
"RDS login" I
get the dreaded *"The server name or address could not be
resolved.
Possible reasons: ..."* error.
Some basics of what I am trying to do.
Appdev is a remote UNIX/Apache server, I access it from my
windows
workstation file explorer with the UNC "\\appdev\". This is
also the
website domain name, so the CF administrator is
"
http://appdev/cfide/administrator/".
There are many applications that
branch off this root, the one I am trying to set up a project
for is in
this unwieldy location.
"\\appdev\cfdocs\apps\puredit\puredit\". Based
on this I currently have the following settings in my
Dreamweaver Site
Definition.
Local Info
Local Root Folder: C:\Development\PUREdit\
HTTP Address:
http://appdev/cfdocs/apps/puredit/puredit/
Remote Info
Access: Local/Network
Remote Folder: \\appdev\cfdocs\apps\puredit\puredit\
Testing Server
Server model: ColdFusion
Access: Local/Network
Testing server folder: \\appdev\cfdocs\apps\puredit\puredit\
This configuration works correctly for accessing, editing,
uploading and
previewing the files. But I can not use RDS to explore the
data
sources, no matter what permutation of the above settings I
have tried.
TIA
Ian Skinner
P.S. Unfortunately for all you Eclipse fans out there, that
is not an
available option at this point in time and space.
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