Summary of Administrative Tasks

The things you may need to do to set up and run the ColdFusion Server fall into several categories:

You can learn more about each of these areas of ColdFusion administration by referring to the information in the following table:

Information about ColdFusion Administration 
Subject Where to find it
Installing ColdFusion See Chapter 1, "Installing and Configuring ColdFusion".
Configuring ColdFusion data sources Chapter 4, "Managing Data Sources".
Native database drivers for Oracle and Sybase databases
Configuring OLE-DB data sources
Setting debugging options Chapter 3, "Configuring ColdFusion Server".
Configuring Administrator email
Managing log files
Clustering and load-balancing Chapter 6, "Creating Scalable and Highly Available Web Sites".
Using CGI with ColdFusion Chapter 7, "Using CGI with ColdFusion".
Configuring basic security for remote development and administration Chapter 9, "Configuring Basic Security".
Configuring Advanced security for ColdFusion resources Chapter 10, "Configuring Advanced Security".