User Guide

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ADOBE GOLIVE CS2
User Guide
To set up a distributed website
1 Create a separate site document for each server.
2 Keep index.html as the file name for home page of the site that is the entry point of your distributed site.
3 Rename the home page file name for all the other subsites. Renaming avoids duplicate file names in your
distributed site.
4 Add pages and links for all the subsites, linking between subsites as you would if you were linking to another local
site. For example, a link from a page in the Soccer subsite to the Putters.html page in the Golf subsite might be
addressed file:////Golf/Putters.html. Links between subsites can use either relative or full paths.
5 Make the site window containing the index.html home page active.
6 Click the Site Settings button on the toolbar, or choose Site > Settings.
7 Click URL Mappings, and then click the Create New Item button
8 Choose Root Of This Site from the menu next to the Map Local Folder or Remote Server box.
TheRootOfThisSiteoptiondisplaysthe path to therootfoldercorrespondingtothe currentsitedocument. When
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you provide an external link to an address on the server in the next step, you can probably preserve some of this path.
9 Edit the path so it contains the URL to the location this root folder will have on the server.
Note: You can also use URL Mappings to map a local folder if you want to conceal your site’s folder hierarchy.
10 Choose Root Of This Site from the With Local Folder menu.
This option maps the current location of the root folder to its future location on the server.
11 Click OK to save the site settings, or repeat steps 4 - 10 for each of the site documents you renamed in step 3.
Note: If you plan to use the Clean Up Site command with any of the subsites you have created, first deselect Add Used
Files and Add Used External References in the Clean Up Site Options dialog box. Otherwise, using the Clean Up Site
command will destroy the structure of the distributed site.
To test a distributed site in a browser before uploading
1 View a page in any of the root folders that contains a link that references a page in another root folder.
2 Move the cursor over the link. The link should contain the local path to the page.
3 Repeat these steps for every link referencing a page in another root folder.
Managing websites with WebDAV
About WebDAV
GoLive supports a server technology known as Web Distributed Authoring and Versioning (WebDAV). WebDAV is
a standard (RFC 2518). This technology adds extensions to the HTTP protocol that let authors safely work on a
website in a workgroup environment. Using WebDAV, you can lock files so that documents will not be accidentally
overwrittenorupdates lost,aswellasdownloadand upload files, obtain informationabout files, andkeepalocalsite
and server site fully synchronized. You can find more information and the latest news about WebDAV at
www.webdav.org.