Chapter 1: Administering Coldfusion Mx; About The Coldfusion Mx Administrator - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61 - CONFIGURING AND ADMINISTERING COLDFUSION MX Manual

CHAPTER 1
Administering ColdFusion MX
This chapter presents an overview of the ColdFusion MX Administrator and how you can use it
to manage your development environment. For procedures, see the ColdFusion MX
Administrator online Help.
Contents

About the ColdFusion MX Administrator . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Accessing user assistance. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
Administrator layout . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
About the ColdFusion MX Administrator
The ColdFusion MX 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 or
Enterprise, as well as your configuration: server or J2EE.
The default location for the ColdFusion MX 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 number as part of the
servername. The default port number is 8500. For example, http://servername:8500/CFIDE/
administrator/index.cfm.
If you are using the J2EE configuration, include the port number used the J2EE application
server's web server. For example, http: //servername:8100/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm.
If your ColdFusion MX Administrator is on a remote computer, use the DNS name or IP address
of the remote host.
To access the ColdFusion MX Administrator, enter the password specified when you installed
ColdFusion MX.
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