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The Administrator is a Web application you use to configure the ColdFusion Server, and to set various server options. The Administrator includes options for managing a wide range of server settings.
You can open the Administrator by selecting the ColdFusion Administrator icon in the ColdFusion 4.0 program group (Windows), or by opening the following URL:
http://hostname/CFIDE/Administrator/index.cfm
Where hostname is the name of the server where ColdFusion is installed. The following table describes the purpose of each category in the Administrator.
ColdFusion Administrator Options
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Server
| Includes options for tuning server performance, as well as:
- Configuring Administrator and ColdFusion Studio Basic and Advanced Security
- Enabling and configuring ColdFusion application, session, and client variables
- Mapping directories
- ColdFusion version information
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Data Sources
| Use to configure ColdFusion data sources, including:
- Native database drivers for Oracle and Sybase databases
- ODBC data sources
- Verifying a ColdFusion data source
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Extensions
| Includes options for registering Java applets and CFX tags, custom tags written in C++.
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Logging
| You use the Logging pages to configure a ColdFusion Administrator email address, and to:
- Specify a directory for ColdFusion log files
- Set mail logging options
- View ColdFusion log files
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Automated tasks
| The Automated tasks pages provide options for:
- Adding new scheduled tasks
- Specifying how often ColdFusion checks for new scheduled tasks to execute
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Miscellaneous
| Use the Mail page to specify a default mail server hostname as well as other mail-related configuration options.
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