Installing ColdFusion MX 7

To process dynamic web pages, you need a web server and an application 

server. ColdFusion MX 7 provides both. A web server is software that 

serves web pages in response to requests from web browsers. An application 

server is software that helps a web server process web pages that contain 

server side scripts or tags. When such a page is requested by a browser, the 

web server hands the page off to the application server for processing before 

sending the page to the browser. For more information, see 

 Understanding Web Applications  on page 217

. 

You can download and install a fully functional developer edition of 

ColdFusion MX 7 from the Macromedia website at 

www.macromedia.com/go/coldfusion/

. Make sure you select the Windows 

version of the ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Edition. A copy of 

ColdFusion MX 7 Developer Edition is also available on the Dreamweaver 

CD (Windows version only). 

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You can also install ColdFusion on a Mac OS X computer running a J2EE 

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server such as JRun or Tomcat. For more information, see the 

Macromedia website at 

www.macromedia.com/go/cfmx7_mac

. The 

installation process is complicated, though, and Dreamweaver was not 

tested with ColdFusion on the Macintosh. Also, it may be difficult to 

connect ColdFusion on the Macintosh to database servers such as 

MySQL.

240 Setup for Sample ColdFusion Site