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Asked: 2026-06-02T00:06:26+00:00

total newbie and totally lost… I’m trying to setup coldfusion(8) with a mysql(5.5) database

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total newbie and totally lost…

I’m trying to setup coldfusion(8) with a mysql(5.5) database on a local (apache 2.2) webserver running Windows XP.

Coldfusion and Apache are running, but I don’t know how to fiddle this in with MySQL.

I’m doing the following:
– Import file1.sql and file2.sql into MySql workbench (5.2) by reverse engineering
– Save this new model as base.mwb into my Apache htdocs folder
– Open the Coldfusion Administrator Data Sources
– Add new Source “myName”, Database “base”, localhost, 3306, root, password

When I try to add I always get Unknown database ‘base’ error.

I also tried to make a connection in MySQL or set up a new server instance in MySQL workbench, but these also fail because of no database “base”.

I guess I’m missing something (probably a database :-)… Thanks for some pointers or a dummy tutorial. I’m longing for something to show up in http://localhost…

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  1. Editorial Team

    I would have to guess that you are coming from a background using Access DBs. MySQL and ColdFusion do not work together by have a DB file in the CF application. CF connects to a running MySQL server somewhere on your network (even on the same machine) using a JDBC connection. It does not look at a DB file and use that. So you will need to install MySQL Server and then import the DB into that. Then use CF’s datasources to connect with that.

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