How do I connect to a website in Dreamweaver 8?

[fuzzybabybunny]

My professor has assigned me to work on a website of his:

http://www.sba.muohio.edu/asiaep/

He has given me his username and password, but I don't know how to connect to it through Dreamweaver 8 because I'm a web design noob.

In Dreamweaver I go to Manage Sites, I input the name and URL of the site, state that I will not be using server technology (I don't know PHP or MySQL), select where I want to store the website files on my local drive, and then I run into a problem:

How do I connect Dreamweaver to the remote (http://www.sba.muohio.edu/asiaep/) server to upload and download files to the website?

FTP, WebDAV, RDS, etc?

What is the hostname or FTP address of the asiaep web server?

I don't think the username and password that my professor gave me are the FTP passwords....

I am confused, and my professor doesn't seem to know much either. When I asked him how he logs in to view the website files, his reply was:

When I select Edit from a program from explorer...it will link to the front page and ask id/password questions.

I think he personally just connects to the website file system via some program like Frontpage and manually copy and pastes files to and from his local drive to the asiaep website. I'd much rather update files directly through Dreamweaver.

Any ideas? Do I have to have some kind of sys admin set up an FTP for me for the site?

 

[mike3411]

My guess is that your school has some kind of web system set up that will allow you log in to an FTP or other special server so that you can update the files, you need to know what kind of server it is and exactly what the address is.

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny
I think he personally just connects to the website file system via some program like Frontpage and manually copy and pastes files to and from his local drive to the asiaep website. I'd much rather update files directly through Dreamweaver.

You need to find out from your professor exactly what program he is using, and get the correct address. It might just be a FTP server, or even a special webpage address, just ask him exactly what program and location he is logging into.

 

[mulletgut]

If I were you I'd download a free ftp client like SmartFTP which is free for personal, educational use.
Once installed, start it, select

File>New Remote Browser

You want "Normal FTP"
Host is : http://www.sba.muohio.edu/asiaep/

just add his username and password

click okay

You should now be connected to the server and you can drag and drop fioles from the server to you local file browser like you would in explorer.


Good luck.

 

[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: mulletgut
If I were you I'd download a free ftp client like SmartFTP which is free for personal, educational use.
Once installed, start it, select

File>New Remote Browser

You want "Normal FTP"
Host is : http://www.sba.muohio.edu/asiaep/

just add his username and password

click okay

You should now be connected to the server and you can drag and drop fioles from the server to you local file browser like you would in explorer.


Good luck.

It says that it's unable to resolve the host name. So I guess I need to get an FTP host set up somehow on the server side, or find the real host address or something.

My professor is kinda clueless about this website stuff. He used Frontpage to design the site, and I'm pretty sure Frontpage just has a feature where you can Connect to a Site by just inputing the URL, username, and password. It'll then bring up the folder list and he can edit the files.

 

[stealth2009]

Run your FTP program. Type the IP address 134.53.40.3 and port 21 . Key in your username and password. Make sure your transfer mode is in ACTIVE MODE. Now you have access to your FT site. You can either download the files and locally do the editing and just upload the entire site once you are done.

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[fuzzybabybunny]

Originally posted by: stealth2009
Run your FTP program. Type the IP address 134.53.40.3 and port 21 . Key in your username and password. Make sure your transfer mode is in ACTIVE MODE. Now you have access to your FT site. You can either download the files and locally do the editing and just upload the entire site once you are done.

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Email Notifier with auto-login for Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail

Just did that. The username and password that I got from my professor are wrong 🙁

How did you find that IP BTW?

 

[jlbenedict]

Originally posted by: fuzzybabybunny

Originally posted by: stealth2009
Run your FTP program. Type the IP address 134.53.40.3 and port 21 . Key in your username and password. Make sure your transfer mode is in ACTIVE MODE. Now you have access to your FT site. You can either download the files and locally do the editing and just upload the entire site once you are done.

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Free Software Downloads
Email Notifier with auto-login for Gmail/Yahoo/Hotmail

Just did that. The username and password that I got from my professor are wrong 🙁

How did you find that IP BTW?

The command prompt and then utilize the "NSLOOKUP" command:


C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>nslookup
*** Can't find server name for address 192.168.0.1: Non-existent domain
*** Default servers are not available
Default Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

> set type=all
> www.sba.muohio.edu
Server: UnKnown
Address: 192.168.0.1

Non-authoritative answer:
www.sba.muohio.edu internet address = 134.53.40.3
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