Adobe Dreamweaver CC 2015 - Manual (Page 549)

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concurrent user communities, consider server-based relational databases (typically referred to as RDBMS) like
Microsoft SQL Server and Oracle.
Setting up a ColdFusion development environment
For detailed instructions on setting up a ColdFusion development environment for Dreamweaver on your Windows or
Mac computer, see the Adobe website at
www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_cf.html .
Both Windows and Macintosh users can download and install a free, fully functional, developer edition of the
ColdFusion application server from the Adobe website at
www.adobe.com/go/coldfusion/ .
Note: The Developer Edition is for non-commercial use for developing and testing web applications. It is not licensed for
deployment. It supports requests from the local host and two remote IP addresses. You can use it to develop and test your
web applications as long as you want; the software does not expire. For more information, see ColdFusion help (Help >
ColdFusion Help).
During installation, you can configure ColdFusion to use the web server built into ColdFusion or another web server
installed on your system. Generally, it’s best to match your development environment to your production environment.
Therefore, if you have an existing web server such as Microsoft IIS on your development computer, you may want to
use it instead of the built-in ColdFusion web server.
Setting up a PHP development environment
For detailed instructions on setting up a PHP development environment for Dreamweaver on your Windows or Mac
computer, see the Adobe website at
www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_php.html .
Editions of the PHP application server exist for Windows, Linux, UNIX, HP-UX, Solaris, and Mac OS X systems. For
more information on the application server, see the PHP documentation, which you can also download from the PHP
website at
www.php.net/download-docs.php .
Setting up an ASP development environment
For detailed instructions on setting up an ASP development environment for Dreamweaver on your Windows or Mac
computer, see the Adobe website at
www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setup_asp.html .
To run ASP pages, you need an application server that supports Microsoft Active Server Pages 2.0., such as Microsoft
IIS (Internet Information Services), which comes with Windows 2000 and Windows XP Professional. Windows XP
Professional users can install and run IIS on their local computer. Macintosh users can use a web hosting service with
an ASP plan or install IIS on a remote computer.
Creating a root folder for the application
After signing up with a web hosting company or setting up the server software yourself, create a root folder for your
web application on the computer running the web server. The root folder can be local or remote, depending on where
your web server is running.
The web server can serve any file in this folder or in any of its subfolders in response to an HTTP request from a web
browser. For example, on a computer running ColdFusion 8, any file in the \ColdFusion8\wwwroot folder or any of its
subfolders can be served to a web browser.
The following are the default root folders of selected web servers: