Managing sites: local, remote, testing

I'm really just getting started with Dreamweaver. I've searched the web and
this forum, but I'm still not sure how to handle the sites. I have a local site
for development, and two physically remote sites - one is for staging/testing,
the other is the public site. I've created three sites in Dreamweaver - local
(develpment) remote (the public server) and testing server (another remote
location). I can use sync to publish from the local to the remote site, but
ideally, I want to develop on the local site, use a test server site for QA,
then publish to the remote site from the testing server when the content has
been reviewed.

The part I can't figure out is how to publish from the testing server to the
remote (pubic) site when I'm ready to publish.

Any help appreciated!

Create two sites. Define a local, a remote, and a testing server for one,
where the testing server and the remote server are the same. This way you
can test from that server, and when ready to submit to QA, put the whole
site there too. Define a local site for the second site that points only at
the testing server for local, and that points at the production location for
remote. Only use this second site for the final push to the production
server.

Would that work for you?

Alternatively, the second site could be local on your hard drive (since
these files would be the same as the ones pushed to the testing server in
site one), and remote on the production server.

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"abqdan" <webforumsuser (AT) macromedia (DOT) com> wrote

I'm really just getting started with Dreamweaver. I've searched the web
and
this forum, but I'm still not sure how to handle the sites. I have a local
site
for development, and two physically remote sites - one is for
staging/testing,
the other is the public site. I've created three sites in Dreamweaver -
local
(develpment) remote (the public server) and testing server (another remote
location). I can use sync to publish from the local to the remote site,
but
ideally, I want to develop on the local site, use a test server site for
QA,
then publish to the remote site from the testing server when the content
has
been reviewed.

The part I can't figure out is how to publish from the testing server to
the
remote (pubic) site when I'm ready to publish.

Any help appreciated!