cfdev is a Coldfusion MX 6.1 server for development of coldfusion web applications for the William & Mary web enviornment. To aid in the development of sites, when appropriate the coldfusion settings are mirrored between the two servers,production and development. In addition, files for all campus webservers are located on one file server. This means that when you are done developing your site, you won't have to move any of the files you've been working on.
The files for your website can be accessed in one of two ways. If you're working on the campus network, you can mount/map a drive to the following address: \\files.campus.wm.edu\www\<sitename>
If you are not working on the campus network, you will need to use our SFTP server dedicated to our web environment, webftp.wm.edu. From that server you may access your files through the following path: /WWW/<sitename>
While you are developing your site, the url for your site will be http://cfdev.wm.edu/<sitename>. After you have contacted IT and let us know that you're site is developed/debugged and ready to become "live", let IT know and we will set up your site to work on the production coldfusion server. Your url will change slightly, becoming http://www.wm.edu/<sitename>
If you are using an access database as your coldfusion datasource, IT will setup a folder for your database and register the datasource on the development server. We will also set up the proper file security permissions. MODIFY THE DATABASE FOLDER FILE PERMISSIONS ONLY IF NECESSARY. Whatever you choose as the datasource name will be carried over to the production server when your site is finished. Your datasource will not be registered on the production server until you notify IT that your site is ready for production use.