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Using the Advanced settings to set up a Dreamweaver site

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4.

Enter the Local Info options.

For more information, click the Help button in the dialog box.

5.

(Optional) If you are ready to set up your remote server now, skip the remaining step; select 
the Remote Info category on the left, then complete the dialog box.

For more information, click the Help button in the dialog box.

6.

Click OK.

Dreamweaver creates the initial site cache, and the new Dreamweaver site appears in the 
Files panel. 

After you set up a local folder, you might also add remote and testing folders (see 

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Setting up a remote folder 

After you set up a local folder for a Dreamweaver site (see 

), you can set up a remote folder. Depending on your development environment, 

the remote folder is where you store files for testing, collaboration, production, deployment, 
or so on. 

Determine how you will access the remote folder and note the connection information. This 
section describes how to set up a remote folder and connect to it.

To set up a remote folder:

1.

Select Site > Manage Sites.

The Manage Sites dialog box appears.

2.

Select an existing Dreamweaver site. 

If you have not defined any Dreamweaver sites, create a local folder before proceeding 
(see 

). 

3.

Click Edit.

The Site Definition dialog box appears.

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You don’t need to specify a remote folder if the folder you specified as your local folder is 
the same folder you created for your site files on the system running your web server. 
This implies the web server is running on your local computer.