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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
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