CHAPTER 7

Tutorial: Publishing 

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Your Site

This tutorial shows you how to set up a remote site with Macromedia 

Dreamweaver 8 and publish your web pages. A remote site is usually a 

place on a remote computer, running a web server, that holds copies of 

your local files. Users access the remote site running on the web server 

when they view your pages in a browser.

In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

Learn about remote sites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129

Define a remote folder  . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130

Upload your local files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133

Troubleshoot the remote folder setup (optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134

Learn about remote sites

After you create a website, the next step is to publish it by uploading the 

files to a remote folder. A remote folder is where you store your files for 

testing, production, collaboration, and publication (depending on your 

environment). Dreamweaver refers to this folder as your remote site.

Before you can proceed, you must have access to a remote web server 

such as your ISP's server, a server owned by the client you're working for, an 

intranet server within your company, or an Internet Information Services 

(IIS) server on a Windows computer. If you don't already have access to 

such a server, contact your ISP, your client, or your system administrator.

Alternatively, you can run a web server such as IIS (Windows) or Apache 

(Macintosh) on your local computer. For more information about setting 

up a web server on your local computer, see 

Appendix B,  Installing a Web 

Server,  on page 231

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