Publishing a Dreamweaver Web Site with Fetch (Macintosh)

Summary

This document describes how to use Fetch to publish a Web site developed in Dreamweaver for Macintosh. Step-by-step instructions are provided to help you locate your site's files on your local hard drive and then transfer them to your account's Web directory using a mirroring operation in Fetch. This document concludes with a recommended way to repeat this process, making it easy to update your Web site each time you make modifications to it in Dreamweaver.

Instructions

To publish your Dreamweaver site with Fetch:

Make sure you have Fetch version 4 or later installed. It is available for download as a component of the UW Internet Connectivity Kit.
Start Macromedia Dreamweaver.
Click the Site menu and select Define Sites...

The Define Sites dialogue box will appear.
Select your site from the list and click Edit...

A Site Definition window will appear.
Select Local Info... from the Category list on the left. If your site is already defined, make a note of the location on your hard drive of Local Root Folder and then continue to the next step. If you are defining a new site, click the folder icon, navigate to the folder where you wish to keep your site and click the Choose button. You will need to know the location of this folder in a later step.
Select Remote Info... from the Category list on the left. Make sure Server Access is set to None. Setting the Server Access to none ensures that you do not accidentally upload your site with Dreamweaver's unsecure file transfer function.
Click the OK button to save the settings for your site.
Start Fetch and connect to Homer, Dante, or shell.myuw.net as you would normally.
Double-click on the folder public_html to open it. This selects your Web directory as the remote folder for file transfers.
Click the Remote menu and select Mirror Folder...

The Mirror dialogue box will appear. Since you selected your Web directory in the previous step, it is already displayed on the right.
Click the drop-down list Choose Folder or Dir... and select Local Folder. A Choose a Folder dialogue box will appear. Use it to locate the Local Root Folder for your site (see step 5 above) on your hard drive. Select this folder and click Choose.

To publish your entire site (i.e. send all updated site files to your account's Web directory) click the right arrow button and click OK. Fetch will transfer all updated files to your Web directory.

Note: you also can retrieve your entire site (i.e. get all site files from your site's Web directory) by clicking the left arrow. Warning: this will overwrite the files in the local folder with those from your account's Web directory.
(Recommended) Click the Save... button to create and name a Fetch shortcut for these mirror settings. This will allow you to use the shortcut, rather than these instructions, the next time you want to update your Web site.
You're done! Use a Web browser to open your updated Web site in order to verify that the mirroring operation was successful.