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xxxVoodoo
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March 17, 2024
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Corrupt file names

  • March 17, 2024
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For a while I have had a php file that will not render in Live view. I have discovered that if I simply resave that file to a new file name it works perfectly. It is a very simple file which I will attach. However if I then save the new working version to the old file name it still won't work with that old file name.  Just will not render it live view. Still works in Preview in a browser just fine so XAMPP and localhost are setup correctly. It's like Dreamweaver has saved that file name somewhere and it is corrupt. I have cleared the WinFileCache in the configuration folder but the problem persists.

 

Windows 11

Dreamweaver CC 2021

 

Anybody seen ths problem?

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Nancy OShea
Nancy OShea
Community Expert
March 17, 2024

Is your Testing Server launched and are all PHP processes running on the server as expected?

Is your PHP file saved to your local testing server's default web directory -- on Xampp, that's the htdocs folder.

Are you being prompted by DW to Discover dynamically related files?  See screenshot.

 

 

Results of test.php opened from local testing server in Live view.

 

 

Nancy O'Shea— Product User, Community Expert & Moderator
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xxxVoodooAuthor
Inspiring
March 17, 2024

Yes testing server launced and all processes running as expected. Yes saved in the site folder locaed in the htdocs folder. Yes prompted to discover dynamically related files  by both the new file that works and the file saved with the old file name that does not work.

So I had a file named test111.php that would not show in Live View. I saved it to test111A.php and it worked perfectly in live view. I erased test111.php in the file panel. Then I saved the new and working test111A.php as test111.php (the old original file name) and that new file saved with the old name would not render in Live mode. No other settings were changed.

Jon Fritz
Jon Fritz
Community Expert
March 18, 2024

Yes of course it works. However if I then save it  as the one file name of "test111.php" it will not work with that one particular file name. Please read the thread carefully....I have been using Dreamweaver and creating websites for 14 years and have run across this a couple times before.  Strangely if I copy that file to another site it renders prperly so there is some sort of file memory associated with the original site that prevents it from working there with that one file name.


I have a couple thoughts...

1. Out of curiosity, what happens if you change the file name at the OS level, instead of within DW (or were you doing that already)?

2. Since it works in another site, I wonder if turning off your site cache might help...

Go to Site > Manage Sites > click your "broken" site > Edit (pencil icon) > Advanced Settings > Local Info > uncheck Enable Cache > Save

Restart DW

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