coldfusion builder extensions on remote servers
If you have read my past posts you know I run my development environment with vmware workstation, where I have a "production" like setup on a vm server running within vmware workstation on my development machine. I do this to keep my laptop footprint small, so if i need to start it up to fix a production issue, I don't have my development environment interrupting my production debugging. But that is not my point in this article, I just switched to coldfusion builder to use the extensions feature it supports. But when I first setup the server configuration and extensions in builder it would run but not write any files to my workspaces. The error it provided was pointing my laptop's workspaces and not the server's directories. Surprisingly, I have found no other person blog about this (maybe it was my search criteria), but I am hoping this little blog posts help others in need out there. The solution is in the "mappings" configuration for the serv...