Any idea about a relatively cheap & good quality web host with ColdFusion support?

Or maybe an honest and independent web site for comparing hosts?

I think http://www.cfhosting.com is cheap and good quality

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Putting video on my website… whats best? java, embed youtube, anything else?

I have a small family business selling radio equipment, and i’d like to put some videos (of how to wire a coax plug, how to install the various equipment, etc) on our (uk hosted) site and was wondering whats the best option?

I’d like to show the best possible video picture i can, but want to keep delays and bandwidth to a minimum.

I’ve seen people embed videos hosted on youtube on their sites, but there seems to be a number of java based solutions too, which seem to give better picture quality.

I dont want my visitors to have to download anything to view my videos, just for them to seemlessly appear or start when the sites visitor wants them to.

My site is written in coldfusion (7.1 currently) – anyone know of any issues with this and java video?

I dont mind paying a minimal amount for the service, as i’m sure it would be a benefit for my visitors, so has anyone got any suggestions or knowledge about this and which of the various software i should go for? Thanks!!

You tube is ok but there two main issues; firstly that of quality; the footage can look really bad as they use alot of compression on the video and secondly youtube has the stigma of something possibly being viewed as amatuerish. That said it is free which is a big plus in its favour
Like everythimg it is very much a case of getting what you pay for. If you wanted to splash out then flash costs about £300-400, and this is a great, intutive, and professional looking way of getting video onto your site. You can set the compression so that the quality of the svideo is as much as your internet hoting package will allow, and with a bit of work you can customise the player to match the design of your website. The result is an atttractive totally personalised video player
I run my own video/multimedia firm and flash has proved invaluable for getting video onto the web

If the price puts you off a little goto www.adobe .com where you can download a free 30 day trial to see what you think

As for compatibility with coldfusion, you could just have the files open in there own browser windows so compatibility shouldnt be an issue

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Is it possible to combine php & asp on a single page?

In order do demonstrate the range of my web programming skills, I have found a web host whose sites (spaces) "serve" PHP, ASP, and ColdFusion.

I feel that i’ve mastered PHP and I’m slowly mastering ASP beyond. Is it possible, without using frames / iframes, to present PHP and ASP on a single page.

In other words, does a page have to have an extension of *.php? to present PHP content or does a page have to have an extension of *.asp? to support ASP content?
When I first started to learn PHP and as an option in DreamWeaver 2004 MX (Studio),
PHP is an option as a language and a type in a script tag, like you were to include javascript or vbscript.
<script language="php" type="text/php">
<!–
echo "php script supported.";
// –>
</script>
Originally was supported;but later abandoned or just proposed and never supported?

Yes it is!

It certainly works with CGI and PHP: a CGI script in any language (I have tried it with Perl and Bash, but there’s nothing language-dependent about the CGI handler) can generate PHP code, which will then be interpreted by the PHP module. I used this to provide a quick and dirty fix to some legacy code; it bought me time to rewrite it properly.

You just have to tell the PHP interpreter to treat *everything* as PHP irrespective of extension, and turn off <% %> tags. (The ASP interpreter already doesn’t do <?php ?> tags.) One or the other interpreter will see the file first; then pass on its munged version, with its output in place of its own special tags but the other special tags intact, to the other.

To determine in what order they get processed (which might be important), do something like create a file with one section of script and see if it exists with the other one. If it doesn’t, then the interpreter for the language in which you did the test must lie upstream of the interpreter in whose language you created the file.

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I am trying to install apache 2.2.2 , but it won’t let me! It installs but get stuck on the email line!?

I am trying to install apache version 2.2.2 so that i can install macromedia coldfusion however I get stuck everytime I install apache when it comes to the screen that asks for my domain name and I put in local host as directed by another site, and then it asks for my server name and i again put in local host and then it asks for my email address which i put in and it installs no problem however it always hangs up and gives me an error message that it cannot start b/c the email address is wrong! HELP ME PLEASE! I have tried their support pages but no luck!
Trey

you installing the appache on wihch OS ?

If you are installing Coldfusion then u must be behind a windows box … so u installing appache over windows operating system i guess from ur question …

anyways if you are installing the appache over the windows when u run the setup :

Run the Apache .msi file you downloaded before. This will prompt you for:

whether or not you want to run Apache for all users (installing Apache as a Service), or if you want it installed to run in a console window when you choose the Start Apache shortcut.
your Server name, Domain name and administrative email account.
the directory to install Apache into (the default is C:\Program Files\Apache Group\Apache although you can change this to any other directory you wish)
the installation type. The "Complete" option installs everything, including the source code if you downloaded the -src.msi package. Choose the "Custom" install if you choose not to install the documentation, or the source code from that package.

During the installation, Apache will configure the files in the conf directory for your chosen installation directory. However if any of the files in this directory already exist they will not be overwritten. Instead the new copy of the corresponding file will be left with the extension .default.conf. So, for example, if conf\httpd.conf already exists it will not be altered, but the version which would have been installed will be left in conf\httpd.default.conf. After the installation has finished you should manually check to see what in new in the .default.conf file, and if necessary update your existing configuration files.

Also, if you already have a file called htdocs\index.html then it will not be overwritten (no index.html.default file will be installed either). This should mean it is safe to install Apache over an existing installation (but you will have to stop the existing server running before doing the installation, then start the new one after the installation is finished).

After installing Apache, you should edit the configuration files in the conf directory as required. These files will be configured during the install ready for Apache to be run from the directory where it was installed, with the documents served from the subdirectory htdocs. There are lots of other options which should be set before you start really using Apache. However to get started quickly the files should work as installed.

If you eventually uninstall Apache, your configuration and log files will not be removed. You will need to delete the installation directory tree ("C:\Program Files\Apache Group" by default) yourself if you do not care to keep your configuration and other web files. Since the httpd.conf file is your accumulated effort in using Apache, you need to take the effort to remove it. The same happens for all other files you may have created, as well as any log files Apache created.

Simple try to uninstall then reinstall the apache again and the if your are typing local host like that its not correct it must be like this localhost both words together.

if the same issue still appears try using the e-mail address as : Administrator@localhost or localhost@localhost
Regards.

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Need a real genius to help with php MYSQL in dreamweaver connection URL path not mapped correctly?

Help I have asked my host this and they cant help me i have a real bad feeling that i am forgetting something fundamental.

Its hard to explain but here are the errors that dreamweaver throws up when i try to connect and view tables on the database.

Error results

http://www.u501.com/result.htm

http://www.u501.com/result2.html

http://www.u501.com/err4.htm

If you have any questions shoot but please remember that i have spent 2 days on this problem And got two so called experts help so many small changes have already been tried .

The testing server should i be using wamp or something i managed to get a MYSQL database connected when i was using coldfusion but it seems 500 times harder with PHP for some reason. But coldfusion had its own localhost server

The URL path i have tried the IP tried the domain name tried local host and localhost:8500

Can somebody please point me in the correct direction before i go back to making static pages
Yes i get the idea what you are saying. I will attempt to get wamp working in order to test but If i code the pages with a Mysql connection it should work via the MYSQL database so i could skip testing ? It seems dreamweaver is much more compatible with coldfusion than it is with PHP funnily enough.
yes i should of said that i had the database already set up on the host its the testing server that is the problem so if i wrote the correct connection string in my php page then presumably it would connect to the remote database and work fine.

I really need to test though so i have got wamp working and hopefully i can get that to work with dreamweaver localhost

Im studying some lynda.com material just now so hopefully i can get this Mysql connection working my php has been fine its not the problem .

I appreciate the advice though

Q
The testing server should i be using wamp or something i managed to get a MYSQL database connected when i was using coldfusion but it seems 500 times harder with PHP for some reason. But coldfusion had its own localhost server
End Q
Precisely. PHP is just a programming language. Well, so is Coldfusion, but Macromedia provides a server as well. PHP doesn’t. The professional method is to install Apache first, and then PHP. When you “installed” PHP, you saw a lot of directions on configuring Apache right?

Connecting to a MySQL database is all well and fine, but you aren’t connecting to it. Your PHP scripts are. But to run your PHP scripts, you need to have them run through a web server, with PHP enabled.

If installing Apache scares you, look at XAMPP or WAMP.

Additional response:
“but If i code the pages with a Mysql connection”: all this means is that you have code that attempts to connect to a MySQL database.

“it should work via the MYSQL database”: What do you mean by this? MySQL is a database server. If you want to run your server-side code, you need a server and you need to be able to run that code. MySQL has nothing to do with it. Perhaps you should take MySQL out of the picture for a moment. Write code that displays “Hello world” on the screen. Does it make more sense why MySQL is irrelevant when it comes to actually running the code?

“It seems dreamweaver is much more compatible with coldfusion”: Dreamweaver has very high support for PHP, make no mistake. But I wouldn’t be surprised about their compatibility with Coldfusion. Macromedia, the original makers of Dreamweaver, bought Coldfusion. Adobe bought Macromedia. Short story: the same people who make Dreamweaver make Coldfusion.

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Information on a Database?

My hosting comes with this, please explain to me what I can do with this? I have business and I have clients(over 200), how can I use the information below to help my business? As of now, I store my clients name/info in my email.
Unlimited MS SQL Server 2005 Databases
Unlimited MySQL 4 Databases
Unlimited Database Usernames
Remote Database Administration
Unlimited ODBC/ ColdFusion Data Sources (DSNs)
Unlimited MS Access and Excel Databases

It means you can now store your clients info in an Access database or a SQL Server database. In this case for something so small you would be better off using the Access database option.
SQL Server and MySQL are slightly more complex and suited for large database systems.

For FREE Access ebook and videos click here

http://access-databases.com/ebook

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how to install MySQL locally?

I’m a pretty technical guy. I know everything about front end development but I can’t seem to grasp backend dev. I’m going to be using Cold Fusion with MySQL. I have paid for a web hosting account with a MySQL database and all I need to do is get the server environment on my local machine. I’ve gotten ColdFusion working with a MS Access database– that’s easy– I just can’t seem to grasp MySQL. Is there a good tutorial you can recommend? Thanks! (P.S. I already tried MySQL’s site and plenty of Google searches.)

Since I already have MySQL installed on my hosting server, all I need is the free (non-enterprise version) right??

Install this:

http://www.apachefriends.org/en/xampp.html

Don’t bother with MySQL with IIS.

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How to make a website?

Ok. I know how to get a domain, web host, etc.
But I want to know how to make it.
I have Adobe Flash Pro CS4, Adobe Dreamweaver CS4, Adobe ColdFusion CS4, and Adobe PhotoShop CS4. I have no expeirence with them but I had a little extra money so I bought them. So how would I go about making the site?

Learn HMTL – http://www.w3schools.com/html/default.asp , http://www.opera.com/company/education/curriculum/

Learn CSS – http://www.w3schools.com/css/default.asp
Learn a server side language of your choice (PHP, ASP.NET, RUBY ON RAILS, etc)
Learn SQL (MySQL, MSSQL, Oracle, etc.)

OR
Get a site that builds a template for you and add your text.

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How do I allow file upload onto website I’m creating…?

Hi all… I have some practice with html/css and was curious on where I can learn to write script that will allow people to upload images/comments to my website? The goal would be for people to upload pictures to be displayed in my predetermined format.

I was looking at using godaddy.com to host and I believe they support ASP and Coldfusion which I think is necessary(?). Any help would be appreciated and security tips would be great as well. Thanks!

The majority of free hosts will not allow your to do so. Only your own server and domain will.
ASP and Coldfusion are not the best way forward either. ASP because is is based on window servers (which have huge amount of disadvantages if compared to Unix based servers), and is a not-very-well maintained product of Microsoft (with huge amount of bugs never to be solved).
Coldfusion is a WYSIWYG type of IDE which will drag you deep into sadness once you try to do anything complex (and login, upload, reformating images are not easy functions either).
Buy your own domain (NOT from Godaddy, but from a serious domain provider) and rent a LAMP server (100$/year is not a big deal).
Armed with that, you have Php and mySQL: you are ready to do whatever you want.
Google for Php scripts for file upload. Analyse them with a simple text editor (Notepad++ free) and understand how uploading files is made, then adapt it to your needs.
You will need a fair good knowledge of javascript, Php and MySQL to achieve your goals. (you can certainly try with ASP and coldfusion, but I promise you serious headaches!)

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MySQL and Coldfusion Error?

I randomly get this error on my website -

Error Occurred While Processing Request

Error Diagnostic Information

ODBC Error Code = S1000 (General error)

[MySQL][ODBC 3.51 Driver][mysqld-4.1.20-max-log]Lost connection to MySQL server during query

The error occurred while processing an element with a general identifier of (CFQUERY), occupying document position (1:884) to (1:985).

Date/Time: 09/05/07 05:15:43
Browser: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.6) Gecko/20070725 Firefox/2.0.0.6
Remote Address: 69.143.86.20

My ISP/Host says they have an old version of JDBC and one day will fix it, that I should switch to MSSQL and re-write my 4000 pages of code!!! What should I do apart from getting a new host?

If it’s an inconsistent random error then enclose your cfquery with cftry and implement a number of retries with some appropriate logging so you can monitor the situation.

But my guess is that this is a typical ColdFusion application without a data layer so you’ll probably have to edit hundreds of cfm files. Consider factoring out all your in-line sql.

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