Dreamweaver Tutorial

Set up a remote site
We have created a small web site in the last Dreamweaver Tutorial, In this lesson we are going to upload it to over web server, but first we have to change the settings.

Before you can proceed, you must have access to a remote web server be it a server that's owned by your ISP or a server that's on your local machine or a office network which is of course a intranet server. If you have Windows 98 SE then you can install personal web server, Windows XP Pro and Windows 2000 comes with IIS , Mac OS X has Apache installed by default. Setting up a server on the Windows platform can be a little tricky, and a little advanced reading is recommenced. We also produce a tutorial on IIS and also on Windows XP and 2000, so it may not be a bad idea to watch this tutorial first.

Before uploading your files make sure your remote folder is empty and that you have set up a local site, if you need help setting it up please review the Dreamweaver tutorial on this subject.

To connect to a remote site:
Choose Site > Edit Sites.
Select a site (RU Playing) and click Edit.
Click the Basic tab at the top of the dialog box.
Picking the Basic tab will now launch a wizard that will ask questions and fill all the fiels in for you.

In the pop-up menu labeled “How do you connect to your remote server?”, choose a method for connecting to the remote site.
The most common method for connecting to a server on the Internet is FTP; the most common method for connecting a server on your intranet is Local/Network.

In FTP mode, enter the following :
hostname of the server ( ftp.ruplaying.com).
In the text box that asks what folder contains your files, enter the path on the server from the ftp root folder to the remote site’s root folder.
If this is left blank it will just log in to the root.

Enter your user name and password in the appropriate text boxes and click Test Connection.
If the connection is unsuccessful, review the ftp connection Dreamweaver tutorial
If you choose Local/Network, then click the folder icon next to the text box and browse to the remote site’s root folder.
Click Next.
Don’t enable check-in and check-out for this site.
If you and your co-workers are working together on a larger site, check-in and check-out help to prevent you from overwriting each others’ files. For this site, though, you don’t need this feature.

Click Next and Dreamweaver will do the work for you..
Click Done to finish setting up the remote site.
Click Done again to finish editing the site.
To upload your pages to a remote site:
In the Site panel, select the site’s local root folder.
Click the Put Files button.

All of the site’s files are uploaded to the remote site.

Open your remote site in a browser to make sure everything uploaded correctly. In the next lesson we shall be looking at previewing in your browser and renaming files and setting permissions.