Real-time preview page not found problem

[mf2112]

Hopefully this will be an easy one to answer because I'm just doing something foolish.

I've set up my remote testing server with the root directory set as public_html/demo/website-name and Dreamweaver will happily connect and let me upload files. However, real-time prieview doesn't work. It puts the relevant files on the server but the browser just comes up with a 'page not found' error.

If I change the root directory to be just public_html then it works fine and the page loads but obviously the files are not where I want them to be.

What am I doing wrong?

On a related note I thought that an alternative would be to view the local files in a browser by right-clicking on a file in Dreamweaver and selecting 'Open in browser' but that just seems to do the same as real-time preview - ie. puts files on the server and gives me the same page not found error. Is there really no way to prieview a local file from Dreamweaver?

[Jon Fritz · Accepted solution]

Place your site's root folders directly within public_html and update the site definition to use that new location for the local root.

You will then be able to use localhost/rootfoldername as the location for each site and Open in Browser should work correctly as long as the server is running.

I've had so many issues with Live Preview that I modified my DW to use Open in Browser on F12 instead.