Adobe 38040334 - Dreamweaver CS3 User Manual page 506

DREAMWEAVER CS3 499
User Guide
If you use Internet Information Server (IIS) to develop web applications, the default name of your web server is the
name of your computer. You can change the server name by changing the name of your computer. If your computer
has no name, the server uses the word localhost.
The server name corresponds to the server's root folder, which (on a Windows computer) is most likely
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot. You can open any web page stored in the root folder by entering the following URL in a
browser running on your computer:
http://your_server_name/your_file_name
For example, if the server name is mer_noire and a web page called soleil.html is stored in C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\,
you can open the page by entering the following URL in a browser running on the local computer:
http://mer_noire/soleil.html
Note: Remember to use forward slashes, not backslashes, in URLs.
You can also open any web page stored in any subfolder of the root folder by specifying the subfolder in the URL.
For example, suppose the soleil.html file is stored in a subfolder called gamelan, as follows:
C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\gamelan\soleil.html
You can open this page by entering the following URL in a browser running on your computer:
http://mer_noire/gamelan/soleil.html
When the web server is running on your computer, you can replace the server name with . For example,
localhost
the following URLs open the same page in a browser:
http://mer_noire/gamelan/soleil.html
http://localhost/gamelan/soleil.html
Note: .Another expression you can use instead of the server name or localhost is 127.0.0.1 (for example,
http://127.0.0.1/gamelan/soleil.html).
See also
"Installing a local web server" on page 498
Choosing your web server
To develop and test web applications, you can choose from a number of common web servers including Microsoft
Internet Information Server (IIS), Netscape Enterprise Server, Sun ONE Web Server, and Apache HTTP Server.
If you're not using a web hosting service, choose a web server and install it on your local computer or on a remote
computer. Windows users who want to develop ColdFusion web applications can use the web server included in the
developer edition of the ColdFusion MX 7 application server, which you can install and use for free.
Other Windows users can run a web server on their local computer by installing IIS. This web server may already be
installed on your system. Check your folder structure to see if it contains a C:\Inetpub or D:\Inetpub folder. IIS
creates this folder during installation.
ASP.NET pages only work with one web server: Microsoft IIS 5 or later. Because IIS 5 is a service of the Windows
2000 and Windows XP Professional operating systems, you can use these two versions of Windows to host ASP.NET
applications. However, you can develop (as opposed to host) ASP.NET applications on any computer running
Dreamweaver, including the Mac OS.
September 4, 2007