Programming instructions

40 Chapter 4 Configuring Your Development Environment
7 Click Verify All Connections to ensure that ColdFusion can access this file.
OK appears in the Status column for successful connections.
If the connection to the compass travel data source fails, do the following:
• Verify that the name of the data source file does not contain a space. If it does
contain a space, delete the data source from the Connected Data Source dialog
box. To do this, click the Delete action button associated with the CompassTravel
data source name, then repeat the steps in this procedure to reconfigure this data
source.
• Verify that the JDBC URL specified for the Compass Travel pontbase files is
correct.
Enabling debugging options
The ColdFusion MX Administrator provides a variety of debugging settings that let you
enable debugging information on a server-wide basis. If you are working on a
development system, you can have these options turned on all the time. However, if you
are working on a production system, you most likely will not want to have these options
turned on, because the debugging information can appear on the bottom of an
application page or in a dockable tree in your browser.
The following figure shows an example of how debugging information can appear when
appended to the bottom of a page in a browser:
The appended
debugging information
The application form