Adding Remote Servers

Today we're going to talk about adding remote servers to your Dreamweaver site. There are several ways to open up the Site Setup dialog box and add a remote server. One would be to go up to the menu and go to Sites > Manage Sites. You can go to the Application toolbar, find the Site pull-down menu and choose Manage Sites. The easiest way is to go to the Files panel and double-click the name of your current site.

Click on Servers on the left-hand side and click the plus symbol .That will bring up the server dialog box.

Name the server; you can name this anything you want. I named this one Project.  Dreamweaver can connect to the site to various protocols.   The default is FTP and that is the standard protocol for most web hosting companies.  Each account is going to have its own specific information.  Contact your hosting company to get your sites information.  Type in the FTP address you got from the hosting company.  I typed in ftp.dddaaa.com, Of course this is a dummy address.   Enter in a username. Again I just typed in dummy information.  This is also the information that you get from your hosting company.  Finally enter in your password and the folder name where your information will be stored. You can choose to have Dreamweaver save this password or not.  Test the server connection. If the information correctly, Dreamweaver will give you a message that says Dreamweaver connected to your web server.

Click OK. Dreamweaver connected to my server, found the information.

Next, we'll take a look at using our remote server to upload files.