How To Proceed - MACROMEDIA COLDFUSION MX 61-GETTING STARTED BUILDING COLDFUSION MX Getting Started

How to proceed

Each lesson in the tutorial is designed to let you proceed at your own pace. At any time, you can
stop and later return to that place in a lesson so that you can complete all the sections in the
lesson.
Each lesson guides you through a scenario to enhance the Compass Travel Trip Maintenance
application. Sections within a lesson present basic programming concepts that you need to
understand before completing the section exercise(s).
Depending on your programming experience, you can read the entire lesson then proceed to the
hands-on exercises, or you can skip some information in the lesson and proceed directly to the
exercises.
Working directories
The following table describes the working directories for this tutorial:
Directory
my_app
solutions
db
photos
images
Locating the working directories
You can locate the working directories for this tutorial under your web root directory. For
example, the directory path on your computer might be:
•
(On Windows) web_root\cfdocs\getting_started
•
(On UNIX) web_root/cfdocs/getting_started
Note: When using the J2EE configuration, the cfdocs directory is under the ColdFusion web
application root. For more information, see
You can view ColdFusion application pages on your local computer by opening a web browser
and entering one of the following URL:
Configuration
For local third-party web
server configuration
For built-in ColdFusion
web server configuration
Description
You will save all your source code in this directory.
You can find solutions to all the exercises in this directory.
You will use this directory as the working directory for the Compass Travel
database.
Note: As discussed earlier in
Environment," on page
database file residing in the db directory is the original file supplied. This
file should have the same date as the file in the new_user_db directory. If
date on the file in the db directory is different, replace the file in db
directory with a copy of the Compass Travel database file that is located in
the new_user_db directory.
You will use this directory to access existing trip photographs.
You will use this directory to access application image files.
"Saving your ColdFusion page" on page
URL
http://localhost/cfdocs/getting_started/my_app/<pagename>.cfm
http://localhost:8500/cfdocs/getting_started/my_app/<pagename>.cfm
Chapter 4, "Configuring Your Development
37, you should verify that the Compass Travel
Developing the sample application
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