How to view templates in Netscape?

[calista]

This is probably a stupid question, but how do I view my CF templates in Netscape? I can't set it up in Studio, because according to the instructions, I have to edit the registery. In the first place, that scares me, and in the second place(and, more importantly!), that function has been disabled by our MIS dept. If I go to Windows Explorer and right click on the file and tell it to open with Netscape, I get an error:

"C:\Inetpub\

http://wwwroot\C3\NewUserCommon.cfm

is not a valid Win32 application."

How do I see what I'm doing in Netscape? I don't get this error when I try to open with IE the same way.

Thanks! Calista :-X
Jedi Knight,
Champion of the Force

 

[pigsie]

You're trying to run the template instead of trying to browse it. IE realises you are trying to browse it.

Open up netscape and enter the URL in the taskbar NOT the path name.
i.e.

http://someserver/yourfile.cfm

NOT
c:\mydocuments\yourfile.cfm

Coldfusion must be running on the server that you're template is on.

 

[calista]

You're right about CF being on the same server my template is on. This is all on my desktop. I have Studio and the single user CF server installed for development purposes. I tried the following, but I get the 404 error, Object Not Found.

http://127.0.0.1/C:/Inetpub/wwwroot/cfdocs/C3/NewUserCommon.cfm

and

http://127.0.0.1/Inetpub/wwwroot/cfdocs/C3/NewUserCommon.cfm

I guess I could upload these to my production server in a separate directory, but I'd rather not do that.

Why does NS have to make everything so $&^)!@@#$ difficult?!! Calista :-X
Jedi Knight,
Champion of the Force

 

[Extras]

Calista...you mentioned..."This is all on my desktop."

By that do you mean the cfm files are are in the desktop of your machine? Because they need to be in your inetpub/

http://wwwroot/

directory....?

 

[calista]

No, my .cfm files are stored in the Inetpub/

http://wwwroot

directory just as I showed above. When I said it was on my desktop, what I meant was, I have CF Server and Studio running on my local machine. Calista :-X
Jedi Knight,
Champion of the Force

 

[calista]

Well, I finally answered my own question. First of all, the correct path is:

http://127.0.0.1/cfdocs/C3/NewUserCommon.cfm

Second, I noticed that when I have the file open in Studio, when I browse the file, there is a cf~ in front of the file name, like this:

http://127.0.0.1/cfdocs/C3/cf~NewUserCommon.cfm

So, I either have to put that in when I type in the Path, or close the file in Studio before browsing.

Thanks, everyone! Calista :-X
Jedi Knight,
Champion of the Force

 

[pigsie]

The urls you showed above are wrong inetpub\

http://wwwroot

maps to localhost (127.0.0.1) so you would need to go to

http://127.0.0.1/cfdocs/C3/NewUserCommon.cfm

to view the file

HTH

k