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Chapter 1 Administering ColdFusion
About the ColdFusion Administrator
The ColdFusion Administrator provides a browser-based interface for managing your
ColdFusion environment. You can configure many settings to provide optimal levels of
security and functionality. The available options are based on your edition of
ColdFusion: Standard, Professional, or Enterprise.
The default location for the ColdFusion Administrator login page is:
http://servername/cfide/Administrator/index.cfm
In the previous URL, servername is the fully qualified domain name of your web server.
Common values for servername are localhost or 127.0.0.1 (each refers to the web server
on the local computer).
If you are using the ColdFusion built-in web server, include the port numer as part of the
servername. The default port number is 8500: http://servername:8500/cfide/
Administrator/index.cfm.
If your ColdFusion Administrator is on a remote computer, use the DNS name or IP
address of the remote host.
To access the ColdFusion Administrator, enter the username and password that you used
when you installed ColdFusion.
Accessing user assistance
You can obtain assistance from the ColdFusion Administrator in the following ways:
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Online Help
You access the context-sensitive online Help by clicking the
question-mark icon on any ColdFusion Administrator page. The online Help has
procedural and brief overview content for the ColdFusion Administrator page that
you are viewing. This information appears in a new browser window and contains
standard Contents, Index, and Search tabs.
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Documentation
Click the link to access the entire ColdFusion documentation set,
which is available as HTML files.
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Examples
The example applications provide samples for you to learn about
ColdFusion.
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Knowledge Base
You can access the collection of articles about ColdFusion from
the Macromedia website.
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Support Forums
You can browse (or post to) the searchable online collection of
ColdFusion questions and answers at the Macromedia website.
