Dreamweaver Configuration for SFTP (Windows/Mac OS)

Follow the steps below to configure SFTP transfers with Dreamweaver to origin.www.upenn.edu.

1. Launch Dreamweaver.
2. From the Site menu, choose Manage Sites... The Manage Sites dialog box appears.
3. Click the New... button and select Site to define a new site, or highlight your existing site and click the Edit... button. The Site Definition for name of site dialog box appears.
4. If you are in Dreamweaver CS4, click on the Advanced tab.
5. Click Local Info in the left sidebar, and enter an appropriate name for the site (such as My Website) in the Site name: field.
   • If necessary, set your Local root folder and Default images folder where you keep your local HTML and image files for your site.
6. Click Remote Info in the left sidebar, and in the Access dropdown menu, choose FTP. Enter the following information accordingly:
   
   FTP host: origin.www.upenn.edu
   Host directory: The name of the web directory for which you have access (for example,
   /usr/local/ftp/html/directoryname or
   /usr/local/ftp/[virtualhostname]/html/directoryname if you use a virtual host on origin.www.upenn.edu).
   Login: Your account name, usually the same as your PennKey username
   Password: Your password on origin.www.upenn.edu (Set your local password)
   [Ensure the Use firewall checkbox is unchecked (temporarily uncheck Use Secure FTP (SFTP) if the option is grayed out)
   [Ensure the Use Secure FTP (SFTP) checkbox is checked]


7. Click the OK button to dismiss the Site Definition dialog box.
8. Click the Done button to dismiss the Manage Sites dialog box.
9. You can now transparently upload or download files within Dreamweaver to origin.www.upenn.edu. Select Files from the Window menu (or press F8).
10. For more information about file transfer in Dreamweaver, see this Adobe tutorial on how to publish your site.