Issue with testing server, mamp pro, dreamweaver 2017

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March 23, 2017
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Hi,

I'm on Windows 10 running Mamp Pro for Windows. To preview a site I normally go to "http://domain/", however I'd like to setup a local testing server so I can use the real time preview in Dreamweaver as it seems useful. The document root set for my domain in Mamp Pro is "C:\Users\Name\Documents\Dreamweaver\domain". This is also where my local files are kept.

However, it's not working for me. When I preview a page it pulls the file url (C:\Users\Name\Documents\Dreamweaver\domain\wp-content\themes\mytheme\contacts.php) rather than the web url that I'd normally visit (domain/contacts) which I think is the issue -- though I'm not really sure.

Does anyone have any ideas what might be wrong?

Cheers

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BenPleysier

Community Expert

If your server is running, then your sites address will be localhost or 127.0.0.1. The URL would therefore read

http://localhost/sitename or
http://127.0.0.1/sitename

a link to contacts.php would read

http://localhost/sitename/contacts.php or
http://127.0.0.1/sitename/contacts.php

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Craig LindsayAuthor

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Thanks for your reply,

Actually that isn't the issue I'm having. I have a unique host name setup for each of my websites -- i.e., to get to "mywebsite" I visit "http://mywebsite/" not "http://localhost/mywebsite/".

The issue I'm having is that the Dreamweaver preview isn't working -- when I debug it I see it's trying to load "C:\Users\Name\Documents\Dreamweaver\domain\wp-content\themes\mytheme\contacts.php" http://mydomain/wp-content/themes/mytheme/front-page.php?v=513 into the iframe which I think is incorrect but I'm not certain about that and unsure how to fix it.

Cheers

BenPleysier

Community Expert

Sorry, but that is a remote server. I thought that you wanted a local testing server.

I am not sure, but I do not think that Real-time Preview works with a remote server due to all sorts of security problems that this causes. I could be wrong in this.

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