How do you set up a Testing Server?

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January 12, 2010
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My Local and Remote settings have been working fine for years but

now I have the need to set up a Testing Server and I'm not sure

what to enter in the fields when editing my site. Attached are

my settings for Local, Remote and Testing. When I published to

the Testing Server this morning overwrote the Remote Server

and had to ask fat cow to restore my original site. Please advise.

Thanks.

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David_Powers

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rorygirl1 wrote:
When I published to
the Testing Server this morning overwrote the Remote Server
and had to ask fat cow to restore my original site.

That's not surprising. Although Dreamweaver lets you use a remote server as the testing server. It needs to be a real server, and it overwrites what exists on the server.

You don't say which server-side technology you're using, but there are detailed instructions on how to set up a PHP testing environment here: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/dreamweaver/articles/setting_up_php.html.

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Anonymous

Thanks David. Is there another way of enabling someone

off-site to preview my website?

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Anonymous

Your website is at http://bigcowmusic.com/. You want to use http://bigcowmusic.com/testing/ as your testing server.

Create a folder called testing in your site root.

In the Testing Server category of your site definition, set Host directory to point at the testing folder. Since you left that field blank before, it suggests that leaving it blank points to the site root. So enter "testing/" (without the quotes) into that field.

Set the URL prefix for the testing server to http://bigcowmusic.com/testing/.

To test that it's working, create a file in the testing folder, and make sure that you give it a name that doesn't already exist in your site (this will avoid overwriting a live page if anything goes wrong). Test it within Dreamweaver. Then go to your live site, and see if the page exists in the testing folder. If it is, you're set to go.

David,

One more question. In the Testing Server site definition,

should I enter ftp host: ftp.fatcow.com and login info

as well?

Thanks,

Glenn

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