Dreamweaver CS4 Resources

Set Basic tab Sharing Files options (remote access)

The purpose of this dialog box is to select an access method for Dreamweaver to access your testing server.

Dreamweaver works with a testing server to generate and display dynamic content while you work. The testing server can be your local computer, a development server, a staging server, or a production server. As long as the server can process the kind of dynamic pages you plan to develop, the choice doesn’t matter.

Select an access method from the pop-up menu and fill out the appropriate text boxes.

None: Keep this default setting if you do not plan to upload your site to a server.
FTP: Use this setting if you connect to your web server using FTP.
Local/Network: Use this setting to access a network folder, or if you are storing files or running your testing server on your local computer.
RDS: (Remote Development Services) Use if you connect to your web server using RDS. For this access method, your remote folder must be on a computer running ColdFusion.
Microsoft Visual SourceSafe: Use if you connect to your web server using Microsoft Visual SourceSafe. Support for this method is only available for Windows; to use it, you must have Microsoft Visual SourceSafe Client version 6 installed.
WebDAV: (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning) Use if you connect to your web server using the WebDAV protocol.
For this access method, you must have a server that supports this protocol, such as Microsoft Internet Information Server (IIS) 5.0 or an appropriately configured installation of Apache web server.