Dreamweaver - Re: Best Practices: Website setup for local, testing server, & remote

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Re: Best Practices: Website setup for local, testing server, & remote

Murray *TMM*

2005-12-28, 3:19 am

What is your local OS? XPPro? Why not have your testing server on your
local system?

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"Naocom" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> ASP environment
> Live website located on third party hosted server
> Testing server is an in office server running SBS
> Local is C drive on my computer
>
> I have tried the following:
>
> Local view: C:/www
> Testing: Server/www
> Remote: ...
>
> Local & Testing: Server/www
>
> Local & Testing: Mapped drive to server
>
> I thought maybe the first scenario but since I have upgraded to 8 I
> haven't
> been able to get my files to save to the server (timestamp issue, I think)
> and
> I'm not inclined to uncheck the synchronize setting (NOR DO I THINK I
> SHOULD BE
> FORCED TO DO SO AS A WORK AROUND - An aside to any DW tech support reading
> this
> post) so I switched it back to having my local view be on my testing
> server.
>
> What should I be doing?
>
>

Murray *TMM*

2005-12-28, 3:31 am

> Time Stamp feature.

I believe this would only affect remote testing servers.

I make my testing server root folder and my local root folder the same
folder. I then share the root folder to the "web" using Explorer's Folder
Properties, and IIS works quite well like this.

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"Naocom" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>I did have it on my local system (XP Pro SP2) but I recently upgraded to
>Studio
> 8 and, once I did this, when I went to preview the the file being edited
> on my
> local hard drive on my testing server it would not update.
>
> I read the 'Emerging Issues' and it seems they are having a problem with
> the
> Time Stamp feature.
>
> So I am coming to the forum to ask: Now what should I do? I'm in a pickle.
>

Murray *TMM*

2005-12-28, 6:14 am

Benefit? Dreamweaver works best with local files....

It's the only way I have ever done testing servers (well, until recently
when I started using PHP).

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"Naocom" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>
> But is this the right way to do it - there must be a benefit to having it
> on
> your local rather than editing directly on the testing server.
>
>

Murray *TMM*

2005-12-28, 6:21 pm

I feel like we are going in circles! Why doesn't having the testing server
at the local site work for you?

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"Naocom" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> So I am basically stuck until DReamweaver is able to figure out why my
> local
> files are updating on the testing server when I go to preview them in a
> borswer?
>
> Can you point me in a direction to getting this resolved?
>

Murray *TMM*

2005-12-28, 6:21 pm

> Wouldn't you agree?

Yes.

If the internet is down, you are hosed in any event. But I solve this
problem by having my site definition on the remote system use the localhost
on that system as the testing server. When I need to make some changes when
I am working remotely, I connect to the production site, download the
desired files, edit and test "locally" to that system, and then upload.

Or am I still missing something?

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"Naocom" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi Murray,
>
> I agree. I feel like this post has gone nowhere much to my disappointment.
>
> Having the testing server as my local site works fine - when I am within
> the
> network at my office. The major drawback here is that I do not have copies
> of
> the files on my local drive so if :Q the internet is down or if I am
> working
> remotely then I am not working in an optimal environment.
>
> Wouldn't you agree?
>

Murray *TMM*

2005-12-28, 6:22 pm

I recommend you contact Macromedia directly and use one of your one-on-one
support incidents.

http://www.macromedia.com/support/e...entary/main.cgi

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"Naocom" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Listen, if that works for you and you don't find it inconvenient, fine.
> But I
> shouldn't have to be forced into that. I should have a choice and
> Dreamweaver
> was set-up to give me that choice. Although now it has been removed with
> the
> upgrade - or so it seems.
>
> Plus, I am not the only person working on these files. Some are not so
> technically inclined (one in particular who telecommutes exclusively) and
> so I
> need the system in the EASIEST and most common sense set-up possible to
> limit
> errors, over-writes and just plain frustration.
>
> Can you point me in a direction. Perhaps you know of a post that may help
> resolve my problem?
>
> Thanks in advance
>
> Can you recommend a way to get back to
>