Switching where files upload Test and Final

Question

So I'm switching to Dreamweaver from sublime, sublime was good but Dreamweaver can easily maintain sites a little better.

I have a question on how a site file uploading works. So currently right now I do something stupid but works to swap in-between Testing and final.

What I do is I click dropdown "Local View" switch to "testing" then I click the dropdown again and go back to "local view" the put and get arrows say testing. To switch to final I do the same thing just instead of clicking "testing" in dropdown I click "final".

My questions is that I wanna know is there a simpler way of switching between both?

Also say my testing site is just the way I want it and I want to publish the site to the final but don't know what files I have changed?

Again I'm new learning this program to be more productive.

Thanks

Nancy OShea · Answer

Define your Local Site folder inside your local testing server's default web directory. In my example, www is my testing server's default web directory. If you use Xampp or Mamp, your directory would be htdocs. See screenshot.

The advantage of doing it this way is twofold.

1) There's nothing to upload. Simply saving your files automatically updates them on the testing server.

2) No unnecessary duplicates. Your local site is your testing server's site.

Hit Shift+Ctrl+U to upload the current open document to remote server.

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