ftp setup question

good to see you have resolved the problem if i can be of any help do not hesitate to let me know

1. Get domain name
2. Get hosting
3. Define Remote site with FTP information from host
4. Upload files

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"galdy316" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> Hi, i am a newbie i don't even have an ftp but i just finished my first
> page in
> dw 8. can you point to the right direction to posting in. i am going to
> purchase a domain name too, but i just don't know if i need an
> ftp...basicly i
> need help. can you help me?
>

Hi, i am a newbie i don't even have an ftp but i just finished my first page in dw 8. can you point to the right direction to posting in. i am going to purchase a domain name too, but i just don't know if i need an ftp...basicly i need help. can you help me?

murray,

please check your email. i sent you a message from mol1 at the sort of hot mail dot com. thanks.
mike

Good luck Mike....

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"hconnorjr" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> murray,
>
> i'm embarrassed to say that it turns out i had the dns setup incorrectly.
> the
> account had been set up incorrectly with two servers. i had set up the
> domain
> name with one ip address and i asked them to remove one of the servers.
> they
> removed the server with the ip associated with my domain name. finally, i
> went
> in and changed the dns settings and waited a couple of hours and now i'm
> back
> on track.
>
> many thanks. this a great forum . . .
>
> mike
>

If you would be willing to send me the connection information offline, I
will see if I can figure out what to do. Send it to

forums at domain, where domain is replaced with great-web-sights dot com.

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"hconnorjr" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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>i tried those setting and it still wouldn't connect . . .

i tried those setting and it still wouldn't connect . . .

Try -

FTP Host - www.mysite.com
Host directory - BLANK

Can you connect? If you can, tell me what FOLDER names you see on the
remote folder list.

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"hconnorjr" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> sorry if this a repeat question, but i'm stumped. i've set up a number of
> sites
> previously, and never had a problem using the ftp with dw. my typical
> setup has
> been
>
> ftp host: ftp.mysite.com
> host directory: public_html/
> username
> password
>
> never a problem.
>
> now i'm trying to set up a site on a new dedicated server host and these
> same
> setting don't work. as an aside, i'm using cpanel and when i set up the
> ftp
> user i noticed the directory is /home/wwwcoun/public_html/, so i
> alternated
> this with a simple public_html/ but it didn't work. suggestions please.
> thanks.
>
> mike
>
>