1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:04,000 Once you've completed and tested your PHP-based site on your local computer, you 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:07,000 can deploy it to your remote site. 3 00:00:07,000 --> 00:00:11,000 I'll start by showing you how to configure the remote site, and how to set it up 4 00:00:11,000 --> 00:00:15,000 to work with the remote site over FTP, or File Transfer Protocol. 5 00:00:15,000 --> 00:00:20,000 For the purpose of this demonstration, I'm using an FTP server called FileZilla. 6 00:00:20,000 --> 00:00:25,000 It's a Windows-based, free FTP server which you can get from the web, and it's 7 00:00:25,000 --> 00:00:28,000 very easy to set up and install. 8 00:00:28,000 --> 00:00:31,000 I've configured a single user on the server. 9 00:00:31,000 --> 00:00:37,000 The name of the user is ftpuser, and I'll show you that under Shared folders, 10 00:00:37,000 --> 00:00:41,000 it's pointing to a folder named remote, under my web root. 11 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,000 So for demonstration purposes, I'm working with the same installation of 12 00:00:44,000 --> 00:00:50,000 Apache, MySQL, and PHP, as I am for my local server, but I'm pointing to a 13 00:00:50,000 --> 00:00:52,000 different directory. 14 00:00:52,000 --> 00:00:56,000 I'll close the User configurationscreen in FileZilla and then minimize it 15 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,000 to keep it running. 16 00:00:58,000 --> 00:01:02,000 Now, if you're working on Mac OS X, you can instead use the FTP capability 17 00:01:02,000 --> 00:01:05,000 that's built into that operating system. 18 00:01:05,000 --> 00:01:10,000 Go into your System Preferences, to Sharing, to File Sharing, and then under 19 00:01:10,000 --> 00:01:13,000 Options, you'll be able to turn on the FTP capability. 20 00:01:13,000 --> 00:01:18,000 Or if you'd like to apply these skills to an actual remote site, just get 21 00:01:18,000 --> 00:01:24,000 the FTP credentials from your Internet Service Provider, or your web server administrator. 22 00:01:24,000 --> 00:01:29,000 I'm working with a site named 09_deployremote. 23 00:01:29,000 --> 00:01:35,000 I'll go to the menu and choose Site > Manage Sites, and then click Edit to look 24 00:01:35,000 --> 00:01:38,000 at the Site preferences. 25 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:41,000 I'll go to the Servers category on the left. 26 00:01:41,000 --> 00:01:46,000 When I first configured the site, I created a local server definition. 27 00:01:46,000 --> 00:01:50,000 Now I'm going to add a new server definition for the remote server. 28 00:01:50,000 --> 00:01:54,000 I'll click plus, and I'll name this Remote Server. 29 00:01:54,000 --> 00:01:58,000 You can connect using a variety of protocols, but almost all the time you're 30 00:01:58,000 --> 00:02:02,000 going to use FTP, or File Transfer Protocol. 31 00:02:02,000 --> 00:02:08,000 The FTP Address can either be the DNS name or the IP address of your remote server. 32 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:14,000 I'm going to use the IP address, 127.0.0.1. 33 00:02:14,000 --> 00:02:21,000 Then I'll type in my username, ftpuser, and the password that I created with it. Then I'll test. 34 00:02:21,000 --> 00:02:27,000 If your FTP server is running, you should connect to your server automatically. 35 00:02:27,000 --> 00:02:31,000 If you have any troubles, the first thing to try is to go into More Options and 36 00:02:31,000 --> 00:02:36,000 try selecting Use Passive FTP, and then click Test again. 37 00:02:36,000 --> 00:02:41,000 If you're still having trouble, check Adobe's web site. Go to the Dreamweaver 38 00:02:41,000 --> 00:02:46,000 Support site, and type in connecting with FTP, and you'll find a knowledge-based 39 00:02:46,000 --> 00:02:48,000 article that should help. 40 00:02:48,000 --> 00:02:52,000 My username is already connected to the correct directory, so I don't need to 41 00:02:52,000 --> 00:02:55,000 put any information here under Root Directory. 42 00:02:55,000 --> 00:03:01,000 I'm also setting the web URL to point to the remote folder under the localhost. 43 00:03:01,000 --> 00:03:05,000 For a remote FTP server, you won't use this value, but it's a good idea to 44 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:06,000 have it be accurate. 45 00:03:06,000 --> 00:03:11,000 Then I'll click Advanced, and I'll check to make sure that I have this option, 46 00:03:11,000 --> 00:03:14,000 Maintain synchronization information, selected. 47 00:03:14,000 --> 00:03:20,000 This will allow me to easily synchronize my files between the client and the remote site. 48 00:03:20,000 --> 00:03:27,000 And as with the testing server, I'll set the Server model to PHP MySQL. 49 00:03:27,000 --> 00:03:29,000 I'm not going to turn on the other options. 50 00:03:29,000 --> 00:03:34,000 This one, Automatically upload files to server on Save, will cause all changes 51 00:03:34,000 --> 00:03:37,000 to be uploaded immediately upon saving them. 52 00:03:37,000 --> 00:03:39,000 I typically don't like to do that. 53 00:03:39,000 --> 00:03:42,000 You can, if you like, use the file checkout capability. 54 00:03:42,000 --> 00:03:47,000 This results in placing file locks on files on your remote server, so that only 55 00:03:47,000 --> 00:03:51,000 one user can check them out at a time. 56 00:03:51,000 --> 00:03:55,000 I'll click Save, and then I'll check to make sure that my new server is marked as 57 00:03:55,000 --> 00:04:00,000 the remote server and not as the resting server, and I'll click Save. 58 00:04:00,000 --> 00:04:05,000 Then I'll click Done, and I'll go to my Files panel. 59 00:04:05,000 --> 00:04:08,000 Right now, I'm looking at the Local View, 60 00:04:08,000 --> 00:04:12,000 that is the set of files that I've been managing through Dreamweaver already. 61 00:04:12,000 --> 00:04:17,000 I'll switch to the remote server and show you that that folder is empty, and 62 00:04:17,000 --> 00:04:21,000 I'll show you the physical folder on the server, which on Windows is 63 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:29,000 wamp/www/remote, and show that it's starting off as an empty file also. 64 00:04:29,000 --> 00:04:33,000 If this folder doesn't already exist on your local computer, you should create 65 00:04:33,000 --> 00:04:37,000 it now, and then you'll be ready to upload files to your server and synchronize 66 00:04:37,000 the files between the client and the remote server whenever you need to.