I just wanted to thank everyone for their assistance on this. I tried a
whole bunch of different things here, but couldn't get it to work. So I
decided to start over. I uninstalled IIS, and renamed the old \inetpub
folder. I rebooted, then reinstalled IIS (to get a clean install). I
created a new website for my first app (app1) at
C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app1\wwwroot in IIS. Then I reran the CF web
connector and configured all IIS websites. I tweaked the IIS settings
for the app1 website and got CF working.
I opened CFBuilder, and deleted the projects I previously created. Then
I deleted my local CF server so I could start over. In troubleshooting
various issues, I had come across this guide on Adobe's website for
configuring CF and CFBuilder for local development:
http://www.adobe.com/devnet/coldfusion/articles/setup_dev.html
I followed this guide pretty much step by step (except that I'm using
IIS instead of Apache. The key thing to note is setting up URL Prefix
mappings for each local site. So I created one for http://local.app1
with the local path C:\inetpub\wwwroot\app1\wwwroot.
This appears to work well. I can even preview pages in the IE and
Firefox tabs, and when I press CTRL-ALT-E to open in external browser
(configured for Chrome), it loads the page in Chrome just fine.
So, I guess this is another case of RTFM!! Lesson learned.
Thanks again,
Carl
On 9/14/2011 1:08 PM, Carl Von Stetten wrote:
> I'm a complete CFBuilder n00b (just installed this morning for first time).
>
> I've been developing for years using Dreamweaver, so this is going to be a
> huge change for me.
>
> OK, now to the problem.
>
> I develop on a 64-bit Windows 7 PC. I have IIS 7.5 running local versions of
> the intranet applications I develop. I have a separate IIS web site for each
> application, and ColdFusion 9.01 is connected to IIS and all the sites work
> from a browser. My sites run from folders under C:\WebSites.
>
> In my hosts file, I have defined site names linked to 127.0.0.1 (local.app1
> and local.app2). This all works fine.
>
> Now I have installed CFBuilder. I configured my local server per the Adobe
> help, or at least as far as I understand. My server shows up in the Servers
> window.
>
> I'm confused as to how I configure a project. Do I point the project to the
> actual website's code folder (ie: C:\WebSites\app1\wwwroot), or to the
> default folder for the project (ie: C:\Users\myUserName\Adobe ColdFusion
> Builder workspace/local.app1)?
>
> I tried putting a copy of the codebase in the project's default folder, but I
> can't preview any pages in the Firefox or IE tabs. I get the message:
>
> "Selected file is not in the document root of the server. If the project is
> not in the document root, create a linked folder to the document root
> (selecting Project Properties> ColdFusion Project)."
>
> What am I doing wrong? How do others set up CFBuilder with locally hosted
> IIS sites?
>
>
>
>
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