Operation Manual

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USING DREAMWEAVER
Working with Dreamweaver sites
Last updated 3/28/2012
When you’re ready, you can fill out the other categories in the Site Setup dialog box, including the Servers category,
where you can specify a remote folder on your remote server.
For a video tutorial on setting up a new Dreamweaver site, see www.adobe.com/go/learn_dw_comm08_en.
Connect to a remote server
Once you’ve specified a local site in Dreamweaver, you can specify a remote server for your site as well. The remote
server (often referred to as the web server) is where you publish your site files so that people can view them online. The
remote server is simply another computer like your local computer with a collection of files and folders on it. You’ll
specify a folder for your site on the remote server, just as you specified a folder for your local site on your local
computer.
Dreamweaver refers to the specified remote folder as your remote site.
When you set up a remote folder, you must select a connection method for Dreamweaver to upload and download files
to and from your web server. The most typical connection method is FTP, but Dreamweaver also supports
local/network, FTPS, SFTP, WebDav, and RDS connection methods. If you don’t know which connection method to
use, ask your ISP or your server administrator.
Note: Dreamweaver also supports connections to IPv6-enabled servers. Supported connection types include FTP, SFTP,
WebDav, and RDS. For more information, see
www.ipv6.org/
Specify a connection method
FTP connections
Use this setting if you connect to your web server using FTP.
1 Select Site > Manage Sites.
2 Click New to set up a new site, or select an existing Dreamweaver site and click Edit.
3 In the Site Setup dialog box, select the Servers category and do one of the following:
• Click the Add New Server button to add a new server
• Select an existing server and click the Edit Existing Server button
The following illustration shows the Basic screen of the Server category with the text fields already populated.