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7. Executing Your CFML Applications

With BlueDragon installed and verified, the next step will be to execute your existing

CFML applications. How you do this will depend on whether you’re using the built-in

web server or have implemented a web server adapter.

7.1 Working with a Web Server Adapter

If you’re using a web server adapter, the location of your CFML files will be driven by

your web server and/or virtual directory mappings for that web server. For instance, if

you’re using IIS, you would typically place your CFML templates in a subdirectory of

C:\inetpub\wwwroot. Or, you may create a virtual directory in IIS and then point that

virtual directory (alias) to any directory accessible to the web server.

Indeed, if you already have CFML templates in the web server root or a virtual directory

from working with ColdFusion, and you implement the BlueDragon web server adapter

for that web server( thus choosing to have BlueDragon process your CFML templates

instead of ColdFusion), you will be able to simply execute those same CFML

applications from their existing location. See Section 3.2 for information on configuring

the environment when you already have ColdFusion installed and integrated with your

web server.

7.2 Working with the Built-in Web Server

If you choose to use BlueDragon’s built-in web server instead (such as for testing or

development), you will want to place your CFML templates in the

wwwroot sub-

directory of the BlueDragon installation directory. Move or copy/paste any

.cfm, .jsp,

.html, .gif files, etc., into the wwwroot directory or a subdirectory and serve them

as you would normally for any web server. (Note that the free BlueDragon Server does

not support execution of JSP’s.) The built-in web server does not currently support

creation of virtual directories.

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