Dreamweaver won't connect

[cybercrone]

I use Dreamweaver for transferring files to and from server. Starting yesterday, when I try to connect to server I get the ol' 'file does not exist or there may be a permissions problem' message. Connection settings are all correct, including user name and password and I can connect by ftp using same settings. I thought maybe Dreamweaver has some kind of glitch so I went to my other computer where I also have Dreamweaver installed and same deal! Dreamweaver won't connect but I can ftp with same settings.

Has anyone run across this glitch in Dreamweaver? The only thing I can think of that might affect things is that I had a peculiar setup problem that I had to fix yesterday, a folder on the server outside of www/ that apparently I unknowingly created, where files were being sent and I had to move a move a bunch of files and delete the folder. However, all folders and files are as they should be now and settings in Dreamweaver corrected. But it was after that that Dreamweaver refused to connect even though settings are right.

I would think it must be my error somewhere except that I can connect fine using ftp with identical settings. Any ideas?

[Tom E.]

This is just a hunch, but what do you have for the "Host Directory" field in the "Remote Info" settings?

It should be empty, or "www/".

When you login to your account via FTP, the FQ server already puts you in the /big/dom/yourdomain/ directory, so you don't have to (and shouldn't) specify it again.

Just a guess based on your other posts ...

-- Tom

[cybercrone]

This is just a hunch, but what do you have for the "Host Directory" field in the "Remote Info" settings?

It should be empty, or "www/".

When you login to your account via FTP, the FQ server already puts you in the /big/dom/yourdomain/ directory, so you don't have to (and shouldn't) specify it again.

Just a guess based on your other posts ...

-- Tom

Thanks for your hunch, Tom. I believe you are thinking of my first problem where I had somehow created a file path /big/dom/xtonimcconnel/www/big/dom/xtonimcconnel/www. I still don't know how that happened; it appears I did it some time in March and didn't discover it until yesterday. That's what I took care of yesterday.

Because by doing that I created a folder /big under xtonimcconnel, altho Dreamweaver was configured correctly (in Dreamweaver it has to be /big/dom/xtonimcconnel/www) it was thrown off by the folder /big in xtonimcconnel and kept putting things there instead of in /www. So that problem got taken care of by removing the folder /big.

What happened today is even dumber (do the support forums give a dummy of the month prize?) -- after messing around yesterday with upload paths trying to solve that problem, I had to reenter path today, and simple simple simple, I forgot to put the slash before big in /big/dom/etc. That's all it was. AAARRRGGGGHHH! And I did it on both machines, so I thought it was Dreamweaver and not me.

I'm putting the whole account here in case it is useful to someone other idiot someday in figuring out the same kind of mistakes.