Macromedia Dreamweaver is a specialty application,
requested by one or more faculty members for the purpose of being
taught and
used in class. Primary support for this application is provided by
the instructor(s) who requested it. Support by Systems Labs consultants
is limited to opening, saving, printing, and the information on this
page. Questions should be directed to your instructor. Additional
support is provided through use of the electronic manual accessible
through the application's Help menu.
You are welcome to ask the consultant on duty for
assistance, but please recognize that s/he has not been trained on
this application and may not be able to adequately answer your question
or solve your problem.
User ID/Password | Uploading
Files | www Permissions
SWEB
and SFTP | SWEB and AFP
SWEB Username & Password:
SWEB uses your link
blue userID and password for authentication. If you do not have an SWEB
account, you may request one using the UK
Account Manager. For step-by-step instructions, visit our account
creation page.
Uploading Files to SWEB:
To upload files to your SWEB account using Dreamweaver,
you must first create a site. This tells Dreamweaver
where
your
local html files and your folder on the server are. To
set up a Site, choose Manage Sites from the Site menu, then click the
New... button and choose Site from the menu. In the window that appears,
click the Advanced tab (screenshot).
In the Site Name box, give your
site a name. You can call it anything you want. This name is just
used to identify
the
site
to
you and
Dreamweaver while you are working. It will not be the name of your
site on the internet, nor does it have to relate to your SWEB account.
Example names might be "My SWEB site" or "Marching
band webpages."
In the Local Root Folder box, choose
the folder on your account where you are going to store all the files
associated with your website. Do this by clicking the folder icon
at the end of the Local Root Folder field and navigating to where
the existing folder is or where you want it to be. If you need to,
click
the New
Folder
button to create a new folder. Click Choose to pick the folder.
Now choose Remote Info from the
Category menu on the left. From the Access Method pull-down menu,
choose FTP. In the FTP Host box,
type "sweb.uky.edu". Put your link blue username
and password in the Login and Password boxes
and check the box beside Use
Secure FTP (SFTP).
Click the TEST button. You should
see a message that Dreamweaver connected to your Web Server successfully.
Click the blue OK button (screenshot).
Now you can begin to create your files! Remember to save all of them
in the root folder you chose or created.
To upload your files, choose Files
from the Window menu or hit the F8 key at the top of your keyboard.
This will bring up a list of the files in your site. Click the 
button
to connect to your SWEB account.
The files in the Local Files column are stored
in the folder on your
account. The files in the Remote Site column are stored on SWEB.
To move files from one column to the other, you can just drag and
drop them. You must put your web files into the www
folder on
your SWEB account in order for them to be viewable on the internet.
Make your SWEB pages publicly viewable:
By default, permissions on www directories are set so
that no one can see the files in the directory but the owner. This
is to protect users from accidentally posting content on the web
that they did not intend to make public.
To allow others to see your webpages, you must change
the permissions on your www directory. The easiest way to do this
is to log into the SWEB file
manger with your link blue user ID and password. You will see
a list of your SWEB files. Check the box next to the www directory
and click the Set Permissions button. On the following screen, check
the boxes as in this example and
click the Set Permissions button. The permissions for your www folder
should now be set to 777, or rwxr-xr-x.
SWEB and SFTP Programs:
You can also upload files from your account to SWEB from outside
of Dreamweaver using SFTP via programs like Fetch or Fugu (Mac)
or WinSCP
(Windows). You can no longer connect to SWEB using unsecured FTP.
Host/Connect to: sweb.uky.edu
Login ID/User ID/Username: your Link Blue username
Some programs will ask for a password beforehand,
others will ask when you try to connect. Make sure that you use your
Link Blue password!
SWEB and AFP:
You can use Apple's built in method of connecting to other
servers by choosing Connect to Server from the Go menu and typing sweb.uky.edu.
Your SWEB account will appear as an icon on your desktop and you can
work with the files in it as with any other disk or folder on the computer.
However,
if you upload web pages using this method, they won't be viewable
on the internet due to a permissions issue. If you are familar with
UNIX, you can use the chmod command to fix the permissions
on all your webfiles after you upload them, but it is typically easier
to use Fetch or Fugu.
If you experience a software issue that is not reflected
on this page, please report
it to the consultant at the helpdesk.
