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Creating a root folder for the application
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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.
a root folder for your web application on the computer running the web server.
Make sure the folder is published by the web server—in other words, 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 MX 7, any file in the
\CFusionMX7\wwwroot folder or any of its subfolders can be served to a web browser.
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 MX 7, any file in the
\CFusionMX7\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:
To test the web server, place a test HTML page in the default root folder and attempt to open
it by entering the page’s URL in a browser. The URL comprises the domain name, such as
www.mysite.com, and the filename of the HTML page, as follows:
it by entering the page’s URL in a browser. The URL comprises the domain name, such as
www.mysite.com, and the filename of the HTML page, as follows:
www.mysite.com/testpage.htm
If the web server is running on your local computer, you can use localhost instead of a domain
name. Using the previous example, enter the following localhost URL depending on your
web server:
name. Using the previous example, enter the following localhost URL depending on your
web server:
Web server
Default root folder
ColdFusion MX 7
\CFusionMX7\wwwroot
IIS
\Inetpub\wwwroot
Apache (Windows)
\apache\htdocs
Apache (Macintosh)
Users:MyUserName:Sites
Jakarta Tomcat (Windows)
\jakarta-tomcat-4.x.x\webapps\ROOT\
Web server
Localhost URL
ColdFusion MX 7
http://localhost:8500/testpage.htm
IIS
http://localhost/testpage.htm
Apache (Windows)
http://localhost:80/testpage.htm
Apache (Macintosh)
http://localhost/~MyUserName/testpage.htm
(where MyUserName is your Macintosh user name)
(where MyUserName is your Macintosh user name)
Jakarta Tomcat (Windows)
http://localhost:8080/testpage.htm
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By default the ColdFusion MX 7 web server runs on port 8500 and the Jakarta Tomcat
web server runs on port 8080.
web server runs on port 8080.