Coldfusion Developer Question?

[glebreck]

I have a test server which is an IIS Web server that a present has five sites on it. Each site can be seen through the web for customers to view progress. There is only one live ip to the server then IIS directs the inquiry for the page through host headers.
I have recently gotten into Coldfusion and have a ton of use for it. My question is.. If I install Coldfusion Developer to the IIS server for page processing will all the pages function properly? Or can I only have one site at a time work?
I really need to jnow this. My purpose is not to actually host the sites just allow outside access to the for myself and customers during the development process.

 

[bhightower]

It would not be a problem to install CF on your web server...
You can call any cf page from any of your domains on that server.
your other sites that are not using coldfusion pages would not be effected. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
brannonH
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[glebreck]

I think I understand what you are saying. To be more specific... I would be installing CF developer and all the sites would have some form of CF, so what if 2 different people were looking at two different sites on server.
Macromedia keeps telling me you can only have one connection at a time. I don't know what they mean and unfortunaty neither do they.
Basically I design all my sites with some CF programming. I do not host them when they are done, but during the development stage I do host them so the customers can view the progress from a live web address. Specifically I use no-ip.com. It's important that they be able to connect to them at any time. I really can't afford 1300 for the professional version if the developer version will work for my needs.

 

[SidianConsulting]

MM DOES know what "one connection at a time means". They wrote the development version to deny access to more than one ip address at a time, so you're not going to get all of your clients to be able to hit the site whenever they want. The development version of CF caches the last used ip address and only allows access to the server from that ip address. You'd have to restart the CF service to allow a new ip address to access the CF server.

-Tek

 

[glebreck]

So to do what I want I will need the Professional version?
By the way thanks for the speedy answers.

 

[SidianConsulting]

You could get the Pro version for $1299.00 (off of Macromedia, might be cheaper from another vendor), or if you have use for all of the DevNet tools, you could spend $1499.00 and get them:

http://www.macromedia.com/desdev/subscriptions/

The only thing about DevNet is that the server products can't be used for production, but they have development licenses, so you get the full functionality of the products (no limitations except the aforementioned production use).

It might not be worth it if you don't have a production licsense of CF Server already and you are going to need one soon; otherwise you get a lot of tools for the money.

-Tek