Problems and Workarounds for Users Without Local Servers
If you're not running a local server, you'll have to access a ColdFusion server over a network or over the Internet to complete and test these pages. In this setup, your local files can reside on your machine, but your remote files have to reside on a server.To gain full access to such a folder, and to configure your system to run on it, you need to contact your network administrator or Internet service provider (ISP).A similar issue will come up in Lesson 14, Connecting to Data Sources: creating a DSN, or Data Source Name. A DSN is a small resource stored on the server that points to a given database and specifies what kind of database it is. When ColdFusion needs to access a database, it uses this DSN to find and communicate with the database. Because DSNs sit on the server, users who are not running local servers typically need to ask their network administrator to create a DSN for them. Creating a DSN is a one-minute process after the network administrator knows what you want to call the data source and where (and what kind) the database is.