How To FTP with Dreamweaver
Purpose
The purpose of this tutorial is to help the webmaster use Dreamweaver to FTP pages and files to and from the MCPS web server.
IMPORTANT:
You must first define your site in Dreamweaver for your files to be FTP'd to the correct location on the server. If you do not define your site correctly, your pages and files will not be uploaded to the correct location on the server. Your content will not appear to be updated when you view your pages. Get step-by-step instructions on definining your site
Who is this tutorial intended for?
Users of this tutorial are webmasters with Dreamweaver installed on their workstation for maintaining their school or office web sites.
FTP with Dreamweaver
A: Define site with Dreamweaver as FTP client
This must be done first. Get step-by-step instructions
B: Expand Dreamweaver window to see both local and remote pages and files
Once your site is set up, click on the expand icon to see both your local pages and files as well as the pages and files on the MCPS server.
C: Connect to server
Click the connect icon in order to connect to the MCPS server
D: Get files (download) from MCPS server; Put files (upload) on MCPS server
Use the green GET arrow to download pages and files from the server.
Use the blue PUT arrow to upload pages and files from the server.
IMPORTANT:
If you GET from the server, you will write over what you have locally. If you PUT to the server, you will write over what is on the MCPS server — your live site.
Updated August 18, 2009 | Maintained by Web Services
