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APPENDIX B
Installing a Web Server
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
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.
NOTE
Macromedia does not provide technical support for third-party software
such as Microsoft Internet Information Server. If you need assistance with
a Microsoft product, please contact Microsoft technical support.