help needed connecting to database

Report · Sep 04, 2008

I have had difficulty following the instructions in the getting started manual for Dreamweaver MX in Chapter 7 (Setup for Sample ColdFusion Site) in the section "connecting to the sample database" under "creating a ColdFusion data Source". It says:
"1 In Dreamweaver, open a ColdFusion page.
2 In the Databases panel (Window > Databases), click the Modify Data Sources icon (the second icon from the right on the panel toolbar).
ColdFusion Administrator opens in a browser.
3 Log in to ColdFusion Administrator and create a data source called connGlobal pointing to the global.mdb database file."
Not knowing what a "ColdFusion page" is, I try clicking File>New... and edit preferences to set the default to Coldfusion page, close and reopen dreamweaver so that it says "document type: ColdFusion" in the application>databases panel. However, when I click on Modify Data Sources, a "Coldfusion administrator URL" box appears prompting with http://localhost/cfide/administrator/datasources/index.cfm. When I click OK it does nothing (and clicking Test produces error 404) and I don't get a login prompt.
Can someone tell me if I'm on the right track? Thankyou, Charles

Report · Sep 09, 2008

Do you have ColdFusion installed on your PC? You can get a free developer version from Adobe. Then, you'll need to set up your site's Testing Server, server model as ColdFusion.