Dreamwaver 4 and ftp.

FTP doesn't display my website's folder

[New_Alex]

My problem is that I can’t access my site using Dreamweaver’s FTP.
Everytime I put FTP: www.mydomain.co.uk Dreamweaver’s FTP doesn’t take me to the right directory where my site actually resides.

The location in the share linux servers appears like this when I use SmartFTP instead dreamweaver’s FTP.

(-)www.mydomain.co.uk
--------(+)certs
--------(+)logs
--------(+)users
-------------(-)MyUsername
--------------------(+)web
---(+)web

In Dreamweaver I define the FTP host as www.mydomain.co.uk but it actually opens /MyUsername/web folder instead of www.mydomain.co.uk/web where my site resides.

My ISP gave me the following instructions which I do not understand.

“FTP INSTRUCTIONS. When you FTP into your site to upload or update, you will initially be placed into the users area of the web site. Please do not change anything here. Depending on which FTP program you are using you will need to go up two levels until you see the following directories:

certs
logs
users
web

Once again please do not rename or delete any of these. Click on the web directory and upload your web site pages here.”

That was what my ISP suggests. WHAT DOES HE MEAN?

Please help me. I don’t know how to go up two levels until I see my main “web” directory. What does my ISP mean???

Thank you

Alex

[txbakers]

With Dreamweaver you cn set the exact path to your web folder as the root. Open up the Sites information and under remote location you'll see it. I would put www.domain.com/web as your root directory.

[New_Alex]

Thanks txbakers.

But I put /web in the host field, and it doesn't open the main web folder (refer to the flolowing diagram). For some weird reason it opens the MyUsername/web folder.

(-)www.mydomain.co.uk
--------(+)certs
--------(+)logs
--------(+)users
-------------(-)MyUsername
--------------------(+)web (It opens this folder)
---(+)web (This is the folder than I actually want to access)

Thanks again.

Alex
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[minnapple]

give this a try
ipaddress/home/sites/www.yourdomain.com/web/

I this doesn't work you might want to buy a ftp application.

[toolman]

Sounds like a cobalt server....try " /web/" as the host directory

[DaveAtIFG]

It sounds to me as if your site is on a virtual domain. Often when I encounter these, I must "walk up and back down" the directory tree with my FTP program to get into the proper directory, as your host suggested. I suspect you can do this with DW's FTP too, and that you won't be able to get into the proper directory any other way. It's a limitation at the host.

[New_Alex]

Sorry my friends. You failed to give me a simple answer which I found out recently.

Under the Define sites section > Web Server Info

add this to the Host Directory setting

../../web/

Shouldn't be a simple answer for you??

Anyway thanks for any attempts.