这篇文章以CF8为例，介绍了安装以及‘hello world’ application。

Overview

You may or may not have heard of ColdFusion or CFML (ColdFusion Markup Language), but pretty soon you’re going to love it. Why waste time developing 80 lines of code in one language when you could do the same in ColdFusion in no more than five?

In this tutorial we will be aiming to accomplish the following:

• We’re going to download and install Adobe ColdFusion 8, and create a development server on your pc.

Download and install Adobe ColdFusion 8

Firstly, we need to download a copy of ColdFusion 8 from the following location: http://www.adobe.com/go/trycoldfusion.
As will all Adobe downloads, you will need to login, or create an account if you don’t aleady have one. Select the ‘Developer Edition’, and choose the application relevant to your operating system, in my case ‘English|Windows|374.8MB’.

Once the download has completed, run the install file and follow the next steps to complete your installation of ColdFusion 8!

Click next to proceed from the introduction screen, and accept the ColdFusion 8 License Agreement on the next.

On the install configuration screen, we want to install the developer’s edition, so check the box and click the ‘Next’ button.

The server configuration screen displays three options for installation. For this tutorial we need the first option, ‘Server configuration’, which uses a self-contained server. Select this option and move to the next screen.

Here, we get to select subcomponents to be included in the installation. In this tutorial we don’t require the ‘.NET Integration Services’ or the ‘Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES’ components, so don’t choose those, only selecting the three remaining options. Click ‘Next’ to proceed.

By default, the installation directory is C:\ColdFusion8. Leave this as it is. If you do want to change the directory, please bear in mind that further comments in this tutorial will reference this installation path, so you may need to adapt the paths to suit your changes.

For web server configuration we are going to be using the ‘Built-in web server’, so select this option and click ‘Next’.

这里我们可以选'Configure web server connector for ColdFusion' （需要你已经安装好了IIS）->add->all

Select a password for access to the ColdFusion administrator. Enter this twice, and click ‘Next’ to proceed.

Select ‘Enable RDS’ and enter a password. Click ‘Next’ to proceed.

You’re almost there! The next screen displays the installation summary, and details of the ColdFusion configuration. Notice the port number (8500) underneath the ‘Server Information’ heading. ColdFusion will be running on this port number, so your ColdFusion server address will be ‘http://localhost:8500/. Click the ‘Install’ button, and let the good times roll. The installer will now do it’s thing and complete the setup for you.

During the installation, you will see various splash screens and messages highlighting some of the options and benefits available to you when using ColdFusion.

Once the installation is complete, you will be asked to log in to the Configuration Wizard, which will set up the administration interface for you. The address is http://index ost:8500/CFIDE/administrator/index.cfm, but by selecting the ‘Launch the Configuration Wizard in the default browser’ option, the address will automatically load for you.

如果之前选择了IIS作web server，那么在IIS中就可以直接访问administrator

Enter the Adminstrator Password you had defined in the earlier stages of the installation, and click the ‘Login’ button. That’s it. You’ve successfully set up a ColdFusion development server.

You are now presented with the ColdFusion administrator interface. This allows you to control all aspects of your ColdFusion server, adding datasources, turning debug output on or off, managing session and application timeouts plus so much more. For now, we don’t need to worry too much about anything in here, as it’s set up for all we need in this tutorial.

ColdFusion Tags and Coding

Now that the ColdFusion server is installed, it’s time for the typical ‘Hello World’ example, and to learn the basics of ColdFusion.

As mentioned previously in this tutorial, ColdFusion is a tag-based language, and one that should feel comfortable to anyone who’s ever typed an HTML tag in their lifetime.
Create a new file called ‘index.cfm’, and save it within the webroot of your ColdFusion installation (in this case, C:\ColdFusion8\wwwroot).
Add the following code snippet to your .cfm page, save it again, and view the masterpiece in your browser (http://localhost:8500/index.cfm)

<cfset strHelloWorld = 'Hello World!' />
<cfoutput>#strHelloWorld#</cfoutput>

Perfect! You are on your way to becomming a CF guru. So, what did we do? We created a string variable ’strHelloWorld’ using the cfset tag. To output the data, we used the cfoutput tags and surrounded the variable name with hash marks. This is us telling ColdFusion it is a dynamic variable. Remove the hash marks from either side of the ’strHelloWorld’ text, and save and view the file again. See what I mean? Without the hash marks, the value will be rendered as a literal string.

原文链接地址：http://net.tutsplus.com/tutorials/other/rapid-development-with-coldfusion-and-cfml/