APPENDIX B

Installing a Web Server

B

To develop and test dynamic web pages, you need a functioning web server. 

This chapter describes how most Windows users can install and use a 

Microsoft web server on their local computer.

If you're a Windows user and you want to develop ColdFusion sites, you 

can use the web server included in the developer edition of the 

Macromedia ColdFusion MX 7 application server, which you can install 

and use for free. For more information, see 

Appendix C,  Setup for Sample 

ColdFusion Site,  on page 237

.

If you're a Macintosh user, you can use a web server on a network computer 

or a web hosting company. If you want to develop PHP applications, you 

can use the Apache web server already installed on your Macintosh.

This chapter contains the following sections:

Getting started  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231

Installing Internet Information Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  232

Testing IIS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  233

Testing the Macintosh web server (PHP developers) . . . . . . . .  233

Web server basics . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .  234

NO

Macromedia does not provide technical support for third party software 

TE

such as Microsoft Internet Information Server. If you need assistance with 

a Microsoft product, please contact Microsoft technical support.

Getting started

If you're a Windows user, you can install and run Internet Information 

Server (IIS) on your system. You can also install the web server on a 

networked Windows computer so other developers on your team can 

use it. 

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