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Publishing using Dreamweaver

When your unix account has been set up to serve web pages (see publishing) you will need software to upload (copy) your pages and any images to the web server. If you use Dreamweaver to write your pages, you can use Dreamweaver's built in publishing facility, but you need to enter some information about the web server that you want to publish to. You can do this when you define a site in Dreamweaver, or you can edit the site definition if you have already have a site set up in Dreamweaver. To edit the site definition to enter the information about the University's web server, read the instructions below or see a demo of this process.

1. Open the DreamWeaver Site window (where you can see all your files listed)
2. From the Site menu, choose Define Sites ...
3. Select the site you are working on (if you have more than one site, you will need to go through steps 3 - 7 for each site)
4. Click on Edit ...
5. In the Category list on the left, select Remote Info
6. From the drop-down list on the right, change the Access: from None to FTP
7. In the FTP Host: box on the right, type ftp.nottingham.ac.uk
8. In the Host Directory: box type /home/yourusername/public_html
   replace yourusername with your own username
9. In the Login: box type your username
10. Leave the Password box blank
    it is more secure to enter your password each time you publish your pages, than to save your password here.
11. Click on OK
12. If you have other web sites repeat steps 3 - 7, otherwise, click on Done

Now you can use the Connect button on Dreamweaver's toolbar to connect to the web server, and the Put button to publish selected pages. Further resources on using Dreamweaver are available.
 

last updated: 01 January 1970
by: Rachel Scudamore