Hello Everyone,

I am trying to do the tutorial in the book ?Dreamweaver 8 with ASP ColdFusion,
and PHP. Training from the Source?

I am Put the Site, ?Newland Tours? in a folder named newland on my site which
is hosted at hostmysite.com (hms) with coldfusion accessibility.

I have worked through the first six chapters successfully using the ColdFusion
funtionality on the hms server. Now I am at the make a connection to a database
chapter

and things are not going so well.

- I have created a MySQL database with MyPHPAdmin which is on the server named
newland_tours and hms has created a dsn for me that supposedly is linked to
that DB

- I have also uploaded the an access database file ?newland_tours.mdb? and
defined a second dsn that refers to that file.

The site definition info that I used for the site (for remote and testing
server sections refers to my company url and the directory ?newland? where the
tutorial site files, including the access database, are located.

Well the problem is I don?t know how to connect everything from within DW.
there is no plus sign in the DB panel to use to add a DB.

This is probably because there two items in the list which are unchecked
namely:

1. Specify an RDS login - when I click on this I see a message that either the
site is not configured correctly or Coldfusion is not Running

AND

2. Create a Coldfusion DataSource

THE BOOK SAYS THE NEXT STEP IS ?to specify the RDS login for the Coldserver
link (well. I can?t do that as explained above)

When I called the Hosting Company, the first two people said that ?information
for working with DW was beyond their scope? and the third person said that
their logging in with
RDS functionality has been disabled for security reasons.... and I would have
to write an application.cfm file.....

Here is my question Does all this make sense to anyone? And where would I find
instructions for writing an application.cfm file.... and is that the most
sensible route to take at this point?
And if not, what is...

I am trying sooo hard to do this and BTW I am on a Mac.
Thank yo so much for your patience if you have gotten this far in the e-mail