Dreamweaver MX 2004

Question

I am running Windows Vista Home Premium and attempting to upload web pages through Dreamweaver 7.0.1.  I have searched the internet for resolutions on this and haven't found too much.  I have contacted my ISP and they have no resolution either.  I am attempting to test the server through remote info.    This is the error that I am receiving:   'An FTP error occured - cannot make connection to host.  Your login and password are incorrect.  Please check your connection information.'   All of the information is correct.  Any help on this one?   It seems that I have these two network errors...with this program and yahoo messenger.  Never had these issues before...   Thanks in advance.

tomron · Answer

Try this.   ' Click on Site on the menu bar and then click Manage Sites. Hightlight the appropriate site and click the Edit button on the right. Under Category on the lefthand side of the Site Definition window, highlight Remote Info. If the 'Automatically upload files to server on save' has a checkmark next to it, it means that dreamweaver will attempt to upload the files to the FTP server that you specified. If the FTP host, Host directory, or Login info is wrong- then you will get the error message. So its either you correct the FTP info or uncheck the 'Automatically upload files to server on save'. Keep in mind that Dreamweaver prompts you to save the file you are working on whenever you hit F12 to preview it.' http://www.fwzone.net/forum/topic.asp?topic_id=35118

sapphyree7 · Answer

Thank you, but that does not work either.  I did the f12 and saved the file, then it proceeds to attempt to upload it and then nothing happens.  Just the same error.  Any other thoughts on this?  I have contacted roadrunner and asked for their help, but no resolve there either.

tomron · Answer

I don't know what else to suggest,maybe try this forum which has subjects pertaining to dreamweaver.   http://www.fwzone.net/forum/forum.asp?forum_id=2

txtchr · Answer

Have you tried connecting to the network by setting up a new connection through your My Computer? I'm not sure how Vista works, but I know in XP you can go through My Computer-->My Network-->Add a Network Place and then you type in all of your host information and passwords. Give that a shot.

The only reason I suggest this is because my class posts a site to a Yahoo server using Dreamweaver MX. We have never had any luck using the Dreamweaver software to connect (or upload) the site (we, too, will get an error message that we could not connect to the server). We've read every help document available through Yahoo's customer console, through Macromedia's site, and in all of our resource books. Our only way to get the site files to the server is through the My Network location; we then drag and drop files from our drive window to the host window. Once we did that, it was actually quite easy. We wondered why we didn't do that to begin with.

Good luck.

Edit: check out this link to a previous post thanks to user mombodog on how to set up an FTP connection using Vista.

Message Edited by txtchr on 10-29-2007 08:45 PM

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