www Site set up

I have been using Dreamweaver 3, and 4 for many years to work with static web
sites on a daily basis.
I now have used MX to produce and test a set of dynamic pages that all work
and run properly on my machine using IIS as the remote and testing server.
I now need to edit the site so that the files can be uploaded and run live on
the www.
The wizard refuses to do this, saying that it cannot configure any set up that
has a testing server that is different to the remote server.
Can anyone point me in the direction of an article that show me how to do this
in simple terms for .asp?

The documentation provided by Macromedia all seems to be aimed at intranet
use, rather than www use, and whilst I can get the files uploaded to the site,
it would be nice to be able to test them in Dreamweaver, instead of having to
open a seperate version of explorer, type in the url and run it from there.

Or is MX only designed for developing and testing, so that once the design is
complete, you have to use a different site to upload things?

Is IIS running on your local development machine?

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

I have been using Dreamweaver 3, and 4 for many years to work with static
web
sites on a daily basis.
I now have used MX to produce and test a set of dynamic pages that all
work
and run properly on my machine using IIS as the remote and testing server.
I now need to edit the site so that the files can be uploaded and run
live on
the www.
The wizard refuses to do this, saying that it cannot configure any set up
that
has a testing server that is different to the remote server.
Can anyone point me in the direction of an article that show me how to do
this
in simple terms for .asp?

The documentation provided by Macromedia all seems to be aimed at
intranet
use, rather than www use, and whilst I can get the files uploaded to the
site,
it would be nice to be able to test them in Dreamweaver, instead of having
to
open a seperate version of explorer, type in the url and run it from
there.

Or is MX only designed for developing and testing, so that once the
design is
complete, you have to use a different site to upload things?

Yes it is.
I found the answer in one of Dreamweaver's technotes hidden in the depths of
the on line help system.
It is entitled 'Defining a site that uses PWS/IIS locally and FTP remotely."
Even then one still has to edit site definitions to enable FTP to site after
your pages have been written and tested using IIS. Rather a crude work around,
but it does work.

Suprisingly, this technote was only constructed on 22June 2004. if it had been
availabe prior to this date, my MX would not have lain on the bench fot the
last 2 years as unusable.

As most web writers would use this system, it seems rather suprising that it
is not in the documentation provided by Macromedia. (or any other sources that
I have looked at - including the MX Bible, which is usually very complete.)