I am running Xammp and Dreamweaver CS6 on a Windows 8 machine for testing my sites.
The site I am working on has been running perfectly well on the testing server, but if I ever move a file (using the Dreamweaver filing system) to a different folder, or even save it to a different one, the dynamic files error comes on screen and nothing works. DW reports that the site definition is not set up correctly - but it is!
Move the file back to where it was and there is no problem. The only way that I can seem to move a file is to create a new empty page in the folder where I want it to be, and copy and paste the code into it. Then I have to update the links, because Dreamweaver cannot deal with links or ssi files in php code. Then it works fine, but it take a lot of time and effort to do so.
The site is correctly set up, as all my code runs (when I have debugged it) and the problem only happens when I move a file, or save it to a different directory.
I understand that the links will need changing in PHP code, but why the Dynamic-related files thing? I can correct all the links on a moved file and it still will not work. It loads, will not display on a browser.
Many of my files have similar content management files for inserting, and updating database records, so it makes sense to create one that works for one type of file, and then re-use the code again for another similar set of files. When you have worked on a file for two days to get it up and running perfectly and you save it only to find that it is wrecked, its very annoying.
Is there a correct solution to what appears to be a bug in DW CS6?
Howard Walker
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