Website Upload

How to upload your files using DreamWeaver

Open Dreamweaver. You can create a new page, open an existing project or just to make a connection to already published web site. The first step you have to do is to define your site in Dreamweaver. Select "Site" and click on "New site" option:

When the Site Definition window appears, please select the Advanced -> Local Info category:

In the Site name field, enter you site name of your choice. Specify the path to the root folder of your site components stored on your local disk storage.

Enable Refresh local files list automatically and Enable cache option.

In the HTTP Address field, enter the URL that your remote Web site will use, so that Dreamweaver can verify links within your site.

Next step is most important, so please pay close attention to it. Please click on Remote info category:

Choose access method to be FTP. In FTP host field type the remote server host name or just type your domain name.

Host directory is either public _html or www. This is the directory where you want to store your web site.

Enter your login details provided you from hosting company. You can test your connection by clicking on Test button. It is very important to enable passive FTP option.

In Testing Server category, please select the remote server technology you wish to use from the list menu on the top of the window. For example if your site is hosted on linux based server and you planning to create and execute PHP scripts using MySQL database you should choose PHP MySQL server model.

When you have done setting your preferences, just click OK and that will complete your setup.

In your Dreamweaver workspace should be a window like this:

Choose your site from the list menu located on the top left corner and click on the button to connect to remote server. From the right list menu you can choose to browse your file either on your local storage or on the remote server. Select a file or directory which you wish to upload and click on the arrow pointing upward. Or if you want to download file or directory you should your other arrow button.