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Problems when creating new sites

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May 31, 2021
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Hi,

Every time I try and create a new site inside a folder that has an existing site I get this error message

"The root folder you have chosen is inside the folder for site 'xxx'. This may cause some operations, such as synchronization, to work incorrectly. Proceed anyway?"

How can I get rid of this problem? Can I proceed anyway?

I'm running Dreamweaver 2019 on MacOS Sierra 10.12.6

Thanks.

Mark

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Correct answer Jon Fritz

You're still trying to create a new site from an existing site's root folder. You used "Websites" as the root for your Bolsas de Panama website.

If your intention is to store multiple sites within the "Websites" folder, you'll need to set the Bolsas de Panama root folder to something other than the "Websites" folder, then create the second site's folder within the "Websites" directory.

BenPleysier

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Having fun with ChatGPT?

In future don't include a link that has nothing to do with the topic. it's called `spam`.

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Nancy OShea

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Chat GPT is considered spam. I took care of it & locked this topic. 🙂

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

B i r n o u

Legend

I think we are all in the same questioning, on why to use nested sites ?

Precisely, and depending on the case, I proposed to the OP to use as many distinct sites (as necessary sites that would be nested online) and to use aliases (shortcuts) at the host site level in order to preserve the functional tree structure from the host site. At least it's how I manage such contexts, and that works like a charm... in Dreamweaver, in local testing, and in Bridge manipulations... no to say about remote server, because all Dreamweaver localwebsites point at the appropriate place on remote.

Jon Fritz

Community Expert

I'm with Ben on the "Why?" here.

Just because a site is going to be nested when published, doesn't mean you need to nest the files locally during development. That can get confusing and lead to problems.

Create a new, separate site folder, then use the second site's FTP settings to determine where it will be uploaded, that's what they're for. No need to confuse the program, or yourself, by messing around with nested site definitions.

Nancy OShea

Community Expert

I agree with Jon. I have a site I work with that has public facing web pages and a member's only section. To keep things organized, I use two separate site definitions. Most assets are stored on content distribution networks (CDNs) so images & scripts are easily shared by both sites.

Nancy O'Shea— Product User & Community Expert

B i r n o u

Legend

I agree with Jon.

By @Nancy OShea

Maybe it's a language problem due to my bad interpretation of English, but the way you say "I agree with Jon" implies that you disagree with other possible approaches... (apart from Ben's question), I'm alone to propose an alternative of structure.

So please, what would be different in my last proposal which goes further than the one frome @Jon Fritz , showing how to put these different independent projects together in Dreamweaver ?

BenPleysier

Community Expert

Why do you want to create a new site insidde an existing site?

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B i r n o u

Legend

@BenPleysier , once I faced such a trouble of nested web sites... in fact it was a plain HTML web site presenting just the compagny, and the compagny wanted to open a blog on the one hand, and a product catalog on the other hand... of course the blog being Wordpress and the catalog Prestashop.

The problem was that for reasons that escape me the customer did not want to open two respective sub-domains, but dig the tree structure of the main domain. That made a web site made of three part... the main host, the blog and the catalog... ofr organisation purpose, it was interesting to split this project into three main part

(I also had the problem with a médical tool for helping and preventing diagnostics, in that case it was more than 9 differents web sites approach)

Well, at that time with David, we continued to request the prerelease to be able to define a root folder that is floating ... either to allow a tree upstream (i.e the old inc folders) or complex trees (multi server (for media) or applications derived)

Perhaps that the OP is in such a situation ?

BenPleysier

Community Expert

If that is the case, where the OP requires nested sites, then my answer would be to disregard the warning message(s) and just continue.

I have had to use that technique on a number of occasions where files had to be stored above the site root directory.

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