courses dreamweaver london - Upload issues

Duncan,

I have corrected the previous post.

Firstly I would try using a separate ftp program such cute ftp or WS_ftp. Use the original setting. Then just manually ftp your files across to the web-server. By doing this we can find out if it is Dreamweaver or your hosting that is not working.

If the separate ftp program works, then it is the settings within Dreamweaver otherwise it is a problem with your web hosts ftp.

You do not need to include ftp under the basic tab.

Hope this helps
David

The local root folder setting can cause problems, especially if you don't select the actual root folder. eg. if your web site on your computer is stored at c:\sites\duncan\ and you have c:\sites as your local root folder, dreamweaver would show just the duncan folder in the list of files. You would then expand this folder to show all web site files, but not realise that you are actually '1 deep' into the duncan folder. Then, when you upload a file, dreamweaver creates the 'duncan' folder and copies the files into it on the remote site.

So check your local files in dreamweaver are not a folder deep. ie it should have 'site - (site name)' at the top, and then immediately underneath all the files in your web site.

And then also change to remote view (may need to connect), and ensure there are no folders there that you don't know about. If you find one that looks suss, go into it, you may find some 'uploads' hiding there, which is where you've been uploading to since these problems started.

I hope the above makes sense.

You can work from two local computers, but my recommendation would be to always download the latest file from the REMOTE server (ie. always 'get' before you edit) so that you don't overwrite any changes you made at work or vice versa.

ie. in this case there would be 3 copies of the file: remote, work and home. If you edit a file at work and upload, all is fine. But then if you work on same file at home, you wouldn't have the changes made at work. So download the latest version from remote to your home machine before beginning any editing.

Dreamweaver has a feature for this called check-in/check-out - see it in Remote settings of your site.

Good luck, and let me know how you get on.

Rich