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Test your dynamic web pages or content by setting up your local computer, a development server, a staging server, or a production server as a testing server. If you plan to develop dynamic pages using server-side languages such as PHP, set up a testing server to generate and display dynamic content while you work. The testing server can be your local computer, a development server, a staging server, or a production server. For a detailed overview about the purposes of a testing server, see David Powers’s article,  Setting up a local testing server in Dreamweaver CS5 . Benefits of setting up a testing server Setting up a testing server allows you to test all your dynamic code safely without causing any damage to your live website.  You can also work virtually uninterrupted from network failures and Internet outages that might keep you from uploading everything onto a remote server. In addition by having a local test server, you do not have to w...

Set up FTP, SFTP, WebDav, or RDS connections to upload or download files from the publishing web server. A remote server (often referred to as a web server or a publishing server) is where you publish your site files so that people can view them online. This remote server is simply another computer like your local computer with a collection of files and folders on it, such as an FTP server. Specify a folder for your site on the remote server, just as you specified a folder for your local site on your local computer. Dreamweaver refers to the specified remote folder as your remote site. When you set up a remote folder, you also select a connection method for Dreamweaver to upload and download files to and from your web server. The most typical connection method is FTP, but Dreamweaver also supports local/network, FTPS, SFTP, WebDav, and RDS connection methods. If you don’t know which connection method to use, ask your ISP or your server administrator. Note: Dreamw...