MACROMEDIA STUDIO 8-EXPLORING STUDIO 8 Manual page 124

124 Web Development Workflow
Choose a web server and install it on your local or networked
computer
A web server is software that serves files in response to requests
from web browsers. When the web server receives a request for a static
HTML page, the server reads the request, finds the page, and sends it to
the requesting browser. Common web servers include Microsoft Internet
Information Server (IIS), Netscape Enterprise Server, Sun ONE Web
Server, and Apache HTTP Server. ColdFusion also comes with its own web
server, which is recommended for development purposes only.
After your web server is working correctly, create a root folder for your
application on the computer that's running the web server. Make sure that
the folder is published by the web server—in other words, that 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 Personal Web Server (PWS) or IIS,
any file in the Inetpub/wwwroot folder or in any of its subfolders can be
served to a web browser. If you are using the ColdFusion web server for
development, any file in the CFusionMX/wwwroot folder or in any of its
subfolders can be served to a web browser.
To run web applications, you must also install an application server to work
with your web server. An application server is software that helps the web
server process dynamic pages before the web server sends those pages
to requesting browsers. For more information, see
application server" in Using Dreamweaver.
Define your site in Dreamweaver
refer either to a website or to a local storage location for the documents
belonging to a website. The latter is what you need to establish before you
begin building your website.
A Dreamweaver site organizes all the documents associated with your
website and allows you to track and maintain links, manage files, share
files, and copy your site files to a web server. The preferred approach to
creating a website by using Dreamweaver is to create and edit pages on
your local disk and then upload copies of the site's files to a remote web
server to make them publicly available.
When you set up your site, if you're working in a collaborative
environment, consider using the Check In/Check Out feature so you can
check files into and out of local and remote servers.
"Setting up an
In Dreamweaver, the term site can