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Dreamweaver MX 2004

Uploading Webpages from Dreamweaver

Lehigh's web server requires a secure file transfer connection for uploading-- either SCP or HTTPS. Dreamweaver MX does include an option to use 'SSH tunnelling' to establish uploading, but it is fairly complex to set up. For simplicity, Lehigh recommends SSH Secure File Transfer.

(However, at other institutions, FTP may be available, and Dreamweaver does include an FTP upload/publish function.)

To install SSH with Secure File Transfer

SSH is available from the Security Software download page: https://www.lehigh.edu/security/download/

It is also available from the Install Software icon for on-campus users.

More Basic Instructions are online at: https://www.lehigh.edu/security/download/UsingSSH.html

To connect to your webspace with SSH

Open SSH

From the computers' Start menu, choose Programs -> SSH Secure Shell -> Secure File Transfer Client.

Hit Enter to Connect, or click on the File menu and choose Connect

In the Connect to Remote Host window:

In the Host Name: box type ws2.cc.lehigh.edu
In the User Name: box type your userid.
Click the Connect button.

If this is the first time you've used SSH to connect to this server, a window will come up asking whether you want to access the security key for this server. Click Yes.
In the Enter Password window, type your password.
On the right, you will see an Windows-Explorer type window with the contents of your Network Server (NS) space. Double-click on the folder 'webspace'. *
To go into specific subdirectories, double-click them in the window.

* If you don't have a webspace directory, or to go to another webspace directory than your own webspace:

Log in as described above.
From the Operation menu, choose 'Go to Folder'
In the Go To Folder window, enter:

/ahome/userid/public/www-data/

userid

/ahome/userid/public/www-data/directoryname

Moving documents from your computer to the webspace and vice versa

To upload files

Find the files in the left-hand section of the window, and select them.
Make sure the folder (if any) in your webspace is open.
Drag the files from the left hand-section of the window to the right-hand section.
If one or more of the files you drag over has the same name as file(s) already on the web space, you will get the message
:
To approve all the files for download at once, click 'Yes to All'; to approve them one at a time, choose 'Yes' and you will get a new message for each duplicate.
The files will appear on the list in the right hand section of the window, and in the record at the bottom of the window of what files were uploaded:

Be sure to upload any graphics or other dependent files as well as the main file; SSH will not do this automatically for you.

To download files

Find the files or directories in your webspace (right-hand section of the window)
In the local files (left-hand section of the window) find the folder to which you want to download the files.
Click on the files or directories in your webspace (right side of window) and drag them over to the local folder (left side of window).
The files will appear in the left-hand side of the window, and at the bottom of the window, you will see a list of the files transferred.

Deleting files

To delete a file in the webspace,

Select the file from the list
Right-click on the file and select Delete; or select Delete from the Operations menu.
You will be asked if you are sure you want to delete the items. Click Ok.
The items will be removed.

Disconnecting

When you are done using SSH:

From the File menu, choose Disconnect
Click OK to continue disconnecting
From the File menu, choose Exit.

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Jennifer Heise, Last updated January 26, 2004