Building Applications

This section should be used as a quick reference when building applications. We've assumed you've gone through the entire getting started section - if you haven't, go do it now and come back here when you're done.

There are five required steps to complete when creating a new Speck application:

  1. Create the basic application directories, e.g. the root directory and at least the www sub-directory.
  2. Create a new database and datasource.
  3. Modify your web server configuration to take account of the new application. This usually means add another site with the home directory pointing to the application's www directory and add the speck virtual directory pointing to the Speck www directory.
  4. Create the application configuration file.
  5. Add your ColdFusion templates to the application directories.

These steps are outlined in some more detail in the hello speck section. The fourth and fifth step do require further explanation. For many small applications the default configuration will be fine, so we'll ignore application configuration for the moment and concentrate on building the ColdFusion templates, i.e. the Application.cfm, content pages and new content types.