Deploying Your Site on the Internet

Abstract

You’ve built your site and created your database, and now it’s time to go live. If you have structured your Dreamweaver site as an exact copy of the site you intend to deploy on the Internet, going live is a pretty straightforward process. Assuming you have defined your remote server as described in Chapter 2, you can deploy your web pages a number of ways through the Dreamweaver interface. Probably the most common way to do so is through the Files panel. Select the file(s) you want to upload, and click the Put button. You can also upload the current page by pressing Ctrl+Shift+U/Shift+Cmd+U, or selecting Put from the File management menu on the Document toolbar (see Figure 1–25 in Chapter 1). You can even right-click files in the Results panel and select Put from the context menu. However, Dreamweaver is not capable of uploading the content of a MySQL database; and there are several other issues with deploying a site that sometimes cause confusion, so this chapter tries to clear up any doubts you might have.