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240 Setup for Sample ColdFusion Site
Installing ColdFusion MX 7
To process dynamic web pages, you need a web server and an application
server. ColdFusion MX 7 provides both. A web server is software that
serves web pages in response to requests from web browsers. An application
server is software that helps a web server process web pages that contain
server-side scripts or tags. When such a page is requested by a browser, the
web server hands the page off to the application server for processing before
sending the page to the browser. For more information, see
“Understanding Web Applications” on page 217 .
You can download and install a fully functional developer edition of
ColdFusion MX 7 from the Macromedia website at
www.macromedia.com/go/coldfusion/ . Make sure you select the Windows
version of the ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Edition. A copy of
ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Edition is also available on the Dreamweaver
CD (Windows version only).
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You can also install ColdFusion on a Mac OS X computer running a J2EE
server such as JRun or Tomcat. For more information, see the
Macromedia website at
www.macromedia.com/go/cfmx7_mac . The
installation process is complicated, though, and Dreamweaver was not
tested with ColdFusion on the Macintosh. Also, it may be difficult to
connect ColdFusion on the Macintosh to database servers such as
MySQL.