I am using Coldfusion development and Dreamweaver 8, I have had a bad time
getting anything to work for this.

I am following the Susan Hove Tutorial 'getting started'. My first problem was
that the URL would not test out while I was defining the site
http://localhost:8500/wwwroot/mycoldfusion/ when I test this I get a http: 404
which is a not found error I believe. If I remove the wwwroot the URL tests
fine and the site definition is ticked but I cannot see any of the data sources
CFARTGALLERY etc or MySource which I have added and verified in the Coldfusion
administrator.

I suspect the RDS login may be incorrect or the server setup is incorrect, if
I click on RDS login I get the error The URL sepcified for this site testing
server may be incorrect.

The other thing I suspect is that I have to specify a DSN but I am not sure if
I have done this already or not.

Any suggestions would be appreciated, I have lost days playing with this.

Julian

Hi Julian,

Had you checked the RDS support during your CF installation?. Are you trying with the same credentials in the site setup (with Dreamweaver)?.

Hi Daverms, thanks for replying.

I don't have any opportunity to put in any logon details, it is just an error
message that comes up. I have now tried opening the database in an ASP page and
this worked first time but it doesn't solve my immediate problem of making the
database available from a CF page. I have defined in CFADMIN I have tried to
use the extensions and I have checked out the details in Admin tools of MSoft
XP.

Thanks
Julian

Hi,

What happens when you do this,

Application Panel -> Bindings Tab -> Then click the "+" button -> Then select
"Record Set" -> Name the recordset and then select the "CFARTGALLERY" from the
list of available data sources.

Hi Daverms

When I do this I get an error message saying

'This server behaviour requires a ColdFusion Datasource. Please check the
database panel for information on how to create one.' I have tried creating
from here but unsuccessfully, I have managed this from ColdFusion administrator
bothe before and after installing the extensions that allow you to get the '+'
sign on the database Tab.

Thanks
Julian

Hi Julian,

Try defining your site right from the scratch. And while doing that, if URL
test fails, try replacing the "localhost" with "127.0.0.1" (or with your actual
IP). Also make sure that your port number is correct (like, if you running
under the built-in webserver then your port might be "8500" or else if you are
using IIS it might be "80").

HTH

Hi Daverms

Sorry for the delay I was working on several projects currently,

I have tried your suggestion relating to redefining the site. I have redfined
the site and dreamweaver appears to be communicating with coldfusion correctly
however when I click on the plus sign in the applications window on the data
bases tab it pulls up the connection definition screnn but when I click on OK
nothing happens.

Do I need anything else running other than coldfusion and dreamweaver. I have
previously from the coldfusion administrator managed to define the DSN and it
all checked out. I can also see the data bases in other page types but not in
cold fusion.