Chapter 5: Lesson 2: Configuring Your Development Environment; Exercise 1: Verifying The Tutorial File Structure - MACROMEDIA COLFUSION MX 7-GETTING STARTED BUILDING COLDFUSION MX Getting Started

In this lesson, you set up your development environment for the tutorial. This lesson describes
the tutorial file structure, and how to configure the database connection and debugging options.
Additionally, it provides an overview of using Macromedia Dreamweaver MX for Macromedia
ColdFusion development.
This lesson explains how to do the following tasks:

Exercise 1: Verifying the tutorial file structure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49

Exercise 2: Setting up your development environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
Exercise 3: Configuring a database connection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
Exercise 4: Configuring debugging options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
Exercise 1: Verifying the tutorial file structure
Before you begin the tutorial, verify that the configuration of the computer where
ColdFusion MX 7 is installed matches the file structure described in the following sections.
The files required to complete the Compass Travel tutorial are installed under the web server root
directory. The location of this directory varies, depending on whether you chose to configure a
local third-party web server (such as IIS) or the ColdFusion stand-alone web server during
installation, as follows:
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When you use a third-party web server (such as IIS or Apache), the files are installed in:
web_root/cfdocs/getting_started.
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When you use the ColdFusion built-in web server, the files are installed in:
cf_root\webroot\cfdocs\getting_started.
The following is the getting_started directory structure:
getting_started
-db
-my_app
-images
-new_user_database
-photos
-solutions
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