Publishing your site with DreamWeaver

If you are building your web site using Macromedia's DreamWeaver then you have at your disposal a very powerful FTP publishing service which is fully supported by your DotNetted hosting account.

DreamWeaver's FTP system is able to synchronise your local and remote sites selecting which files are newer and copy newer files across to ensure that your site files are always up to date.

Enabling DreamWeaver to publish your files

Open DreamWeaver and open the site properties window for the site you wish to publish to your DotNetted account.

Click on 'Remote Info' and in the 'Remote Info' screen enter the following :

For 'Access Type' choose 'FTP'

For 'FTP Host' enter your domain name proceeded by ftp. e.g. ftp.yoursite.co.uk

Leave 'Host Directory' empty

For 'Login' enter your account ftp username

For 'Password' enter your account ftp password

Now click the 'Test' button to check that DreamWeaver can connect to your account ok.

Note : Some firewall configurations can cause DreamWeaver problems connecting to your account - if you're able to make the initial connection but it fails when attempting to list or copy files try toggling the 'Use Passive FTP' setting in the DreamWeaver site setup 'Remote Info' screen and retry.