Connecting Via Ftp

[wmabear]

Hi all

 

I am new to dreamweaver as I am to most all of this. I am using a 2002 DWMX ver. 6 or 7. I went through the tutorial for your first dreamveaver site this last week, of course the site that I will be developing will be a lot larger and in the end will be using php and mysql. In the site definition box did all of that ftp connection,

then ftp.mysite.com, user name, pw, test connection all worked fine. Then came Testing files Part 2, Sites root folder, What url would you use to browse to the root of your site then it gave the example http://server one/root folder/ then it gives you a test url button.

This is when I came back to the forum and read a post from earlier today talking about ssh and it said you could not but you could hook up securely at cpanel

by using this.

You can connect securely to cpanel

using

https://server##.totalchoicehosting.com:2083/

 

and then use file manager in a secure mode

 

My question is which is the correct answer in my situation DW example or yours options have been underlined.

 

Thanks in advance

 

Mike

[TCH-Rob]

I do not use Dreamweaver but I will see if I can answer your questions.

 

Your root folder is the one found at www.******/ If you are using dreamweaver to upload your files you will use that and not h*ttps://server##.totalchoicehosting.com:2083/

 

I do not believe DW would understand that. If you are worried about security then you can use h*ttps://server##.totalchoicehosting.com:2083/ and use cPanel. This method has a drawback of only being able to upload a few files at a time and not directories at once.

 

I am moving this to our Dreamweaver forum as well for further assistance as I could be a bit off.

[wmabear]

Thanks Rob, and let me add how happy I am to have found this group.

 

Mike

[TCH-Bruce]

Welcome to the family, Mike!

 

Don't be afraid to ask questions. There's always someone around to help.

 

Happy to have you with us.