July 2012
Intermediate to advanced
1034 pages
38h 32m
English
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Dynamic Websites: The Setup
Now that your head is spinning and you’re considering some noble career alternative like farmer, firefighter, or carpenter, it’s time to set up Dreamweaver to work with an application server and database.
You can configure your setup several ways. One involves using what Dreamweaver calls a testing server. Remember how you can create a website on your own computer (the local site) before posting it online for all to see (the remote site)? Here, the concept is similar. When you build web applications, it’s a good idea to keep all your work-in-progress pages on your own computer, just as you did when you created static pages. After all, you don’t want to fill up an online database with test data, or put half-finished product pages on the Internet. But because dynamic websites require an application server and database to work, you need to set up a testing server to store and preview your dynamic pages—a real web server, an application server, and a database, in other words—all running on the same machine, your own computer.
Then, when you finish building your site, you transfer these pages to your remote site using Dreamweaver’s built-in FTP feature (see Chapter 17). If you work in a group setting with other web developers, you can set up the testing server on a machine that’s part of your group’s local network. Each developer can then connect to the testing server and retrieve files to work on. (Dreamweaver’s Check In/Check Out feature, described on Check ...
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