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CHAPTER 7
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Tutorial: Publishing
Your Site
This tutorial shows you how to set up a remote site with Macromedia
Dreamweaver 8 and publish your web pages. A remote site is usually a
place on a remote computer, running a web server, that holds copies of
your local files. Users access the remote site running on the web server
when they view your pages in a browser.
In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks:

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Define a remote folder . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
Upload your local files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
Troubleshoot the remote folder setup (optional). . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
Learn about remote sites
After you create a website, the next step is to publish it by uploading the
files to a remote folder. A remote folder is where you store your files for
testing, production, collaboration, and publication (depending on your
environment). Dreamweaver refers to this folder as your remote site.
Before you can proceed, you must have access to a remote web server—
such as your ISP's server, a server owned by the client you're working for, an
intranet server within your company, or an Internet Information Services
(IIS) server on a Windows computer. If you don't already have access to
such a server, contact your ISP, your client, or your system administrator.
Alternatively, you can run a web server such as IIS (Windows) or Apache
(Macintosh) on your local computer. For more information about setting
up a web server on your local computer, see Appendix B, "Installing a Web
Server," on page 231.
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