Dreamweaver issue

[acast003]

Hello! Total newbie here! I'm creating my website using Dreamweaver and following the step by step directions from thesitewizard.com. Finally able to connect to host, but now can not publish. When I go to "Site|Put" the "Put" is greyed out, so I can't click on it. I thought I'd followed the steps to the letter, but obviously I've done something wrong? Anyone experience this before? Suggestions? Thanks in advance!:umm:

[Vonunov]

Hello,

Did you set up the site entry as shown in the Steps to Publishing / Uploading Your Dreamweaver Site section of http://www.thesitewizard.com/gettingstarted/dreamweaver1.shtml ?

Note that your FTP address should simply be the TLD; I FTP to jack.is, not ftp.jack.is. If you used ftp.your.domain because this article said that may be the address, that could be the problem.

The FTP username and password should be the SSH login account.

Otherwise, you may need to look for an option in the Site menu to open a connection before trying to Put. I don't have Dreamweaver so I can't be sure.

[mromero]

Are you on FutureQuest? Are you using Dreamweaver CS4?

Have you clicked on the little icon at the extreme left on the file directory - it says "Connects To Remote Host" when you hover your cursor over it. If you click and it fails it will throw up an error message to help you troubleshoot.

[sheila]

Note that your FTP address should simply be the TLD; I FTP to jack.is, not ftp.jack.is. If you used ftp.your.domain because this article said that may be the address, that could be the problem.

Actually, if they have FutureQuest's name servers set for their domain, then ftp.example.com should work and is the recommended FTP server name in our FAQs, Activation Letters and tutorials. At this time it points to the same IP address as simply example.com as well, so either one will work.

[chrisheng]

Hello! Total newbie here! I'm creating my website using Dreamweaver and following the step by step directions from thesitewizard.com. Finally able to connect to host, but now can not publish. When I go to "Site|Put" the "Put" is greyed out, so I can't click on it. I thought I'd followed the steps to the letter, but obviously I've done something wrong? Anyone experience this before? Suggestions? Thanks in advance!:umm:

If you still haven't already resolved this (I noticed your post was made a few days back), see the checklist at:

Why is "Site | Put" Disabled or Greyed Out in Dreamweaver?
http://www.thesitewizard.com/faqs/site-put-disabled-dreamweaver.shtml

There are actually a few possible reasons why "Site | Put" might be disabled.

[Vonunov]

Actually, if they have FutureQuest's name servers set for their domain, then ftp.example.com should work and is the recommended FTP server name in our FAQs, Activation Letters and tutorials. At this time it points to the same IP address as simply example.com as well, so either one will work.

Oh, okay. Thanks for clarifying this. I must have first FTPed to jack.is and figured that was the one, since it worked. :P

[jjprzewozniak]

I have a similar problem. I'm using CS3 and I have followed all the steps on thesitewizard.com to publish my first page. I can and have "put" my page, but when I go to my addy in Firefox, I get the same starter page you folks gave me. How come?

Thanks in advance,

Best,
JJ

[oheso]

I have a similar problem. I'm using CS3 and I have followed all the steps on thesitewizard.com to publish my first page. I can and have "put" my page, but when I go to my addy in Firefox, I get the same starter page you folks gave me. How come?

This is most likely a case of Dreamweaver having put the files somewhere you didn't expect them to end up. Go into your CNC and have a look around, see if you can find where Dreamweaver has put them.

You may need to try a few times with your Dreamweaver FTP settings to get it right. (I gave up on Dreamweaver's FTP and went with a stand-alone solution that didn't confuse me, didn't cause Dreamweaver to crash, and had a lot more power and flexibility.)

[sheila]

I have a similar problem. I'm using CS3 and I have followed all the steps on thesitewizard.com to publish my first page. I can and have "put" my page, but when I go to my addy in Firefox, I get the same starter page you folks gave me. How come?


You have put the files above the www directory.

Right now they are in
/big/dom/xdomain

(where "domain" is replaced with your domain name)

But they need to be in
/big/dom/xdomain/www

All web files need to be inside the www folder to be accessible to web browsers.

P.S. http://www.FutureQuest.net/Community/SiteOwner/

[jjprzewozniak]

I've made progress using the info from the posts here, but still no luck.

Sorry; please forgive yet another noob!

Best,
JJ

[sheila]

You now have a file named
homepage.html

In your www folder. It is in the correct place. If you go to
http://www.example.com/homepage.html
you will see it (replace "example.com" with your actual domain name).

If you want to see it when you go simply to
example.com

Then you need to change the name of the file homepage.html to index.html