CONFIGURING WEBDRIVE WITH DREAMWEAVER
Step 1. Open DreamWeaver and locate the Files pane. If the Site tab on the Files pane (see figure 1) is not visible, see below.
If the pane in Step 1 is not visible when you open DreamWeaver, then locate these little arrows on the right hand side of the screen and click the innermost one (highlighted in blue).
Step 2. Select Edit sites from the drop-down menu. Note that other sites that appear in the example will not appear in your DreamWeaver installation.
Step 3. Click on the New button (see figure 4). Please note that your Edit Sites box will not have the same sites as the example. It will likely be empty.
Configuring a Site in DreamWeaver to Work with WebDrive
If you continue, it is assumed that you have installed the WebDAV client, WebDrive. If you already have installed it, start it up if need be.
STEP 1. Choose the advanced tab from the Site Definition screen.
STEP 2. Set both the "Local Root Folder:" and "Default Images Folder:" to point to a place on your computer's hard drive where you want to store your (local) copy of the site. This is usually drive letter C:\, but you can click on the folder icon to the right of either field to browse to the location.
STEP 3. Type in the full address to your Web site, as it would appear in a browser (we've stressed the https in times past, but here it is http only, NOT https).
STEP 4. Click on "Remote Info" on the left column, and the following should appear:
STEP 5. Set "Access:" to "Local/Network" since we have our own (secure) WebDAV connection running through WebDrive. We do not use the WebDAV client built into DreamWeaver because it does not support encrypted connection through https.
STEP 6. In the "Remote Folder:" box, enter the path to your Web site's main page. In most cases, that will be simply X:\.
STEP 7. Uncheck the box (if it is not already) that indicates "Refresh Remote File List Automatically".
By now, you might have seen this pop up one or more times:
Here's how you get rid of that error box:
STEP 8. To get rid of that "Site Map" pop-up error, click on "Site Map Layout" on the left column. Set the "Home Page:" blank to the area on your LOCAL computer (i.e. this is usually somewhere on the C:\ drive, but it is definately where ever you picked in Step 5).
STEP 9. Beside "Icon Labels:" Select "Page Titles".
STEP 10. Leave all other options as they are, and press "OK".
STEP 11. Your site is configured to save changes to a location on your C:\ drive (or, somewhere on your computer), and wait until you give the signal to upload all changed files.