Dreamweaver CS4 problem [CS4 IS DEAD]

[stefanoss27463946]

My Dreamweaver CS4 (installed in 2019 on my new WIndows 10 laptop using an installation package online) was working fine until the beginning of October 2023. Then one day it refused to launch; the error message said that it could not find file "libcurl.dll".  I did look into the Dreamweaver program file that contained all the .dll file and indeed that file was not there. Subsequently I looked into other application subfolders under my Adobe CS4 folder and I did find a file with that name in a different Adobe subfolder. I copied the file into the Dreamweaver CS4 program folder. After doing that, Dreamweaver is now launching but I can only edit local .http files. When I try to "put" (upload) the .http file onto the remote folder (ftp server) I am receivng the error message "An FTP error occured-cannot make connection to host"

(note that I did not chenge any remote info under the "Site" tab)

Any ideas/suggestions ?

[Nancy OShea]

CS4 is dead.  Activation servers for it no longer exist. It's impossible to reinstall and activate CS4 from disks or downloads on any device. 

There are security & other reasons why nobody should be using 15 year old web software.  Sites built with CS4 will likely pose usability problems for people with modern browsers & mobile devices. 

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MODERN CODE EDITORS:
-- Adobe Dreamweaver CC - https://www.adobe.com/products/dreamweaver.html
-- Codespaces (free, browser-based) - https://github.com/features/codespaces
-- Nova (Mac only, formerly called Coda) - https://nova.app/
-- Pinegrow - https://pinegrow.com/
-- Sublime Text - http://www.sublimetext.com/
-- Visual Studio Code (free) - https://code.visualstudio.com/
-- Wappler ~ Visual Web App Builder - https://wappler.io/
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ONLINE SITE BUILDERS:
-- Squarespace - https://www.squarespace.com/
-- Webflow - https://webflow.com
-- Wix - https://www.wix.com/
-- WordPress (open source) - https://wordpress.org/

Hope that helps.

[Jon Fritz]

The two issues you're having may be unrelated.

Sometimes, especially in shared hosting environments, updates to the server will change user credentials causing errors when you try to connect. 

Try running the free Filezilla FTP Client and see if you can upload from there. If you can, at least you'll be able to update your site while troubleshooting continues in DW.

If you can't upload with Filezilla, it would point to a change on the server. You would need to contact your hosting company to see what they've changed and get it corrected.

[stefanoss27463946]

Thanks Nancy. Indeed I have been very hesitant to uninstall and then reistall CS4 from a disk. I prefer to keep CS4 with whatever functionality it provides (ability to edit local files) because I resolved the issue as you can see in my reply to Jon Fritz's suggestion

[stefanoss27463946]

Thanks Jon.

Indeed my hosting services provider gave me the same suggestion. I didn't have to use Filezilla, I finaly figured out (thanks to the guidelines offered here: https://unihost.com/blog/how-to-connect-to-ftp-server/) how to manually establish a connection to my remote ftp server that now shows up as a folder (witgh all my remote files included) in my Windows file manager.

So now I was successful to edit and save http files locally and then copy and paste to the ftp server folder, thus effectively bypassing the non-responding "put" function of Dreamweaver CS4.

This also proved that the problem resides with the CS4 program not the host server.