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DreamweaverMX 2004 with SFTP

For PCs and Macs

Revised Apr 13 2004
Dreamweaver is web-authoring software that has the capability of "publishing" your webpages by letting you directly upload them onto a web server. Because the UA web servers are protected by SSH, the file-transport mechanism (FTP) used by Dreamweaver4 and DreamweaverMX must tunnel SSH to get to the server. DreamweaverMX 2004, however, uses SecureFTP which eliminates the need to use tunneling.

Here are instructions for SSH tunneling with Dreamweaver4 and DreamweaverMX.

To configure Secure File Transport:

  • Start DreamweaverMX 2004.
  • Under the Site pulldown, choose Manage Sites.
  • If you had sites defined in a previous version of Dreamweaver, they are "inherited" by this version and will be listed so you can choose the one you want to update. All your old site definitions should be modified to take advantage of SFTP.
Dreamweaver site pulldown
  • Click New to add a Site definition, or highlight an existing definition and click Edit.
  • The window starts with Local Info as the Category in the left pane.
  • You can choose Basic and Dreamweaver will walk you through items that need to be filled in or choose Advanced (as we did here).
  • If this is a new site definition, enter the Site name for this configuration, U-Sys account, in this example.
Dreamweaver local defn
  • For Local root folder enter the name of the folder on your PC or Mac where the site's webpages are located. If you click the folder icon to the right, you can browse for the folder.
  • Unclick the Enable cache box to save overhead.
  • Click Remote Info under Category.
Dreamweaver sftp config
  • Configure Remote Info as in the example above.
  • Unclick the Automatically upload box to save overhead.
  • The FTP host is the domain name of the machine where your webpages are stored. (This must be changed for old configurations which pointed to 127.0.0.1 or localhost.) Use u.arizona.edu for your U-System account or w3.arizona.edu for departmental accounts on W3.
  • Setting the Host directory to the specific directory for your webpages is a convenience to you but is not required.
  • For Login use your NetID in the case of the U-System or your account name on W3 (this would not be the same as your NetID).
  • Enter your Password.
  • Click the checkbox for Use Secure FTP.
  • To verify your configuration, click the Test button on the right.
  • If you successfully connected, click OK, then Done.
  • You're ready to develop and upload webpages. Anytime you want to connect to the remote system, choose the remote site definition from the pulldown under the Files tab on the left pane (U-Sys account in this example) and click the connection icon.
Dreamweaver sftp connection

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