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[jmassara]

I'm setting up my new website in Dreamweaver, and already I'm stumped. What information do I enter into the dialog boxes that tell me where my remote site is? Comcast agents have been no help at all on this subject.

Here's what I need to enter:

"What is the hostname or FTP address of your Web server?"

"What folder on the server do you want to store your files in?"

"What is your FTP login?"

"What is your FTP password?" (And are my FTP login and password the same ones I use for my e-mail?)

Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[Again]

A search of the forums would have given you this information:

Dreamweaver:

Access type: FTP
FTP host: upload.comcast.net
Host directory: /
Login: yourusername
Password: yourpassword

[jmassara]

Thanks for the info. But what folder on the server do I store my files in? I assume it's something to do with my user name, "jmassara." But isn't there some other info and backslashes in there, too?

Also, are my FTP login and PW supposed to be exactly the same as for my e-mail. It seems I heard somewhere that the passwords may be different.

Thanks in advance ...

[Again · Accepted solution]

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jmassara wrote:

Thanks for the info. But what folder on the server do I store my files in? I assume it's something to do with my user name, "jmassara." But isn't there some other info and backslashes in there, too?

Also, are my FTP login and PW supposed to be exactly the same as for my e-mail. It seems I heard somewhere that the passwords may be different.

Thanks in advance ...

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I use Dreamweaver and the settings are exactly as I posted.  You put your files in the root directory which is the slash [ / ].  You can have folders under the root directory; it depends on how you set up your pages as you're creating them.

And yes, your username and password are exactly the same as your email, put in exactly as I've shown above; yourusername is the part before @comcast.net so you leave the last part off.

[jmassara]

Thank you so much --  it worked!

[Again]

Good!  Glad it worked for you. 

[TSFlynn]

Absolutely great. I can't tell you how long I wrestled with this problem.

[jmassara]

I thought I was out of the woods ... but I'm still having trouble with Dreamweaver CS4. I'm trying to do something very simple -- upload a single page with a single graphic attached to it -- and I'm having little luck.

For one thing, the connection between the image and the page keeps getting lost. For another, I keep getting dialogue boxes telling me that the server can't be reached, even though it "tests" just fine with the settings I was given here.

What gives?

[TSFlynn]

I'm using Dreamweaver CS3 and since it's part of the whole Creative Suite, I don't want to spend the money on an upgrade.  Sorry, I can't help with this.  I'm going to keep my old website up on my old server using FrontPage until I finish the new site and then discontinue my old service and launch my new one through Comcast. 

[dtgolferguy]

i am having similar issues except i am using Expression Web...(changing from FrontPage)... i get this error message when i try to publish:

The server home.comcast.net at : requires a username and password.

Warning: This server is requesting that your username and password be sent in an insecure manner (basic authentication without a secure connection).

can you help me with this please?

Thanks

[FishMan]

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dtgolferguy wrote:

i am having similar issues except i am using Expression Web...(changing from FrontPage)... i get this error message when i try to publish:

The server home.comcast.net at : requires a username and password.

Warning: This server is requesting that your username and password be sent in an insecure manner (basic authentication without a secure connection).

can you help me with this please?

Thanks

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Well I just tried it in Expressions Web and it works for me using the FTP option in Expressions web. You have the wrong FTP server. You have home.comcast.net. It should be upload.comcast.net then enter your username and password at the prompt.

[dtgolferguy]

Thank you... i'm in now but it is telling me i have conflicts... i guess i am having problems converting from FP to EW2... i'll go to EW2 help now unless you have more advice.  Thanks very much.

DT

[dtgolferguy]

oops... i got it!  i just had to publish a second time and it converted everything... thanks again for your help!

DT

[vgreina]

Hi, 

I was having the same problem with DW.  I followed the steps you mentioned here, and Dreamweaver seemed to have connected to the web server successfully, I transferred the files from the right to the left, the works…

Dreamweaver:

Access type: FTP
FTP host: upload.comcast.net
Host directory: /
Login: yourusername
Password: yourpassword

 

I still can’t see the web site online.   I must be missing something.

When I type: http://username.home.comcast.net  the web is not posted.  It reads: coming soon.  What am I missing?  

 

My goal is to upload this site, and later redirect it to the domain that I purchased with godaddy.  I’ll deal with the redirection later...  One pain at the time, right?  Now I just want to figure out how to post this site on my Comcast space.  Can you help me, pleaseeeeee  ...

Thank you!  :-)

Val

[MadScotsman]

Do you have a file called index.htm or index.html?  That would be the default first page, usually either a splash page, an introductory page, or a main menu page.

[Again]

Val, did you really upload your page to username.home.comcast.net/~username?  If so, that's not where you should be uploading to.   There IS a webpage at that address, but that's not where your webpage should be associated.

username = your comcast.net login before the @comcast.net

An example would be if my comcast.net login were again@comcast.net, then I would be using "again" as my username and the password that is associated with it in the Dreamweaver settings.

Or, am I reading your post wrong? 

If I did, did you try clearing your cache?

And, as MadScotsman pointed out, you should name your main file index.html or index.htm and link to there.  This is the default page.  Otherwise, you would need to point your URL to home.comcast.net/~yourusername/filename .

Cast matters as well.  index.html is not the same as Index.html or index.HTML, or INDEX.html.  Ditto for other file name such as photos.  myphoto.JPG is not the same as myphoto.jpg, or MyPhoto.JPG, etc.  using all lower case for filename is preferred and easy.

Message Edited by Again on 07-27-2009 03:09 PM

[vgreina]

Thank you!  I'll try it!

:-)

[vgreina]

Hi again...   

Thank you for taking the time to help me out. 

I’m still learning this whole dreamweaver deal, but I think I got the username, right.  I used the username minus @comcast .net.   

 

Here's a snapshot of what I did:

On dreamweaver navigation bar, I licked on “site” – ‘manage sites” – “edit” – “advanced tab”

Local info:  The name of my site

Links relative to: documents  (or should I click site root?)

http address: username.home.comcast.net/   (I tried both – With and without http at front)

Cache: enable cache

  

Then I moved on to “remote info:”

 

Access: FTP

FTP host: upload.comcast.net

Login: my username

Password: my comcast password

Maintain synchronization information (checked)

 

So far, so good, right?  I hope...   :-/     Well, from there, Dreamweaver connected to the server successfully  : D

I expanded to show local and remote sites, and I transferred the files from the right to the left.  The whole thing appeared to be connecting just fine.  But then, booommm...  the site was not posted.  The only way to see the files is to connect to the FTP using my browser, log in, and then the list of the files will appear.  That’s not what I want : ( 

Anyway, after reading your post here and the one above, I went back to files on dreamweaver and edited the main page to index.html.   Bummer!  Nothing :-(    I guess I'm still doing something wrong.  When I type the myusername.home.comcast.net, the web still not posted.  It reads, "coming soon."  Oh boy...  I need a martini coming soon...

 

Anyway...  Again, thank you 4 your patience... 

Val   :'(

PS:  Ahhh...   Forgot 2 tell you...  I already enabled the PW from Comcast website, and I also checked enable FTP folder on control panel.  

[lead5alpha]

What did you name your main page?  The server only accepts a few names that it reads for the default page for your username at http://home.comast.net/~username/

index.html or index.htm are the most common. Use all lower cases.  The server is case sensitive and Index.HTML or any other combination would not work.

If you named your page something else such as myhomepage.html then you need to type http://home.comcast.net/~username/myhomepage.html into the browser address bar to view your page.

[vgreina]

Used to be vilagreen.html (the name of my page)

Now it’s index.html  (lowercase)

My username is vgreina

If I type: http://home.comcast.net/vgreina/index.html or

http://vgreina.home/comcast.net  or

http://home.comast.net/~vgreina/  or

http://home.comast.net/vgreina  or

Still doesn't work...  :'(   Snif!  snif!

Message Edited by vgreina on 07-27-2009 03:03 PM

[lead5alpha]

Your page must be in the upper most (root directory).  If you place it in a subfolder it will not work as the default page.  Your page is located in a sub directory here:

http://home.comcast.net/~vgreina/vilagreen/index.html

Move all of the files from the sub directory to root directory and it will work for the default page.  You could leave it where it is but then you have to give out the address for people to find it.

[MadScotsman]

After renaming your file to index.html, did you re-publish it? 

When you use Dreamweaver's FTP process, something I'm unfamiliar with, does it show you a list of files for the remote site?  I'm assuming it does, so go there and check there is a file called index.htm in the root directory - that is, the highest level you can see under your User Id.  

Cheers, Neil.

[MadScotsman]

Beat me to it leadSalpha.  So how did you figure out the URL that worked?  A lucky guess trying different combinations, or were you able to see the directory structure?

[lead5alpha]

Some web authoring programs create a directory to place the web page files, images, etc in.  When I saw the name of her original page I made an assumption that the files were in a subdirectory of the same name.

We are just comcast customers helping out with advice on this forum.  We do not have any access to see directory structures.

[vgreina]

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!  Thank you, guys!   Thank you Neil, thank you Lead, thank you Again!   It worked.   I'm in business.  Now I can start building the darn site! 

Great help!  Shhhhhh...  The martini helped a little too...   lol

Can I trouble you with one more question?  How can I redirect  http://home.comcast.net/~vgreina/   to  http://www.vilagreen.com ?  The domain was registered with Godaddy.  Free would be great!  

Thank you, thank you!!!   : D

Cheers,

Val

Message Edited by vgreina on 07-27-2009 07:55 PM

[MadScotsman]

To my way of thinking, you have it the wrong way round.  The question I think you're asking is how do I redirect vilagreen.com on GoDaddy to your new Comcast website, and GoDaddy provides two ways.  It's called Domain Forwarding.

Someplace in your GoDaddy account, there's a question about Domain Forwarding.  You specify what address you want your "cool" name to be redirected to, and in this case you would choose your Comcast address.   The only option you have is whether to apply Masking or not.  I'm sure you can find this option but if not, just ask and I'll provide more detailed info.  I registerd my Domain Name with GoDaddy.

 0/ First off, what you really want is for Comcast to takeover your domain name as if they were like every other web hosting company in the world.  Unfortunately Comcast won't do that.  They barely support web building as it is, and this falls into the "get a real web host" category.

1/  If you mask the address - that is, a browser displays the "cool" address and not the comcast address - you almost get what you really want but there are a couple of look and feel issues because of the way it is implemented.  In a nutshell, as you navigate from page to page on your website, the URL in the address bar stays the same as what you typed in, if you hit refresh you return to the first page, and if someone bookmarks the page they can only boomark the first page.  After a while you will go - **bleep** this, this is dumb.  It works this way because GoDaddy becomes your website and they implement your Comcast web site as a form.

2/ If you don't mask the address then you will see the Comcast URL in the browser's address bar because GoDaddy simply redirects you to the Comcast site. Everything works the way you want - you have a "cool" address, you can jump to any web page using the "cool" address, refresh and bookmark work as expected, and the downsides are small.  One is your visitors see the Comcast URL, another is that any bookmarks would be lost if you moved the site to a different web host.

So try it both masked and unmasked.  You'll find you prefer unmasked.  If you tire of seeing the Comcast URL, your next step would be to pay for web hosting.

Cheers, Neil.

[vgreina]

 0/ First off, what you really want is for Comcast to takeover your domain name as if they were like every other web hosting company in the world.  Unfortunately Comcast won't do that.  They barely support web building as it is, and this falls into the "get a real web host" category.

Neil...  This is what I want.  I want to type in my domain, vilagreen.com, and reach the website I uploaded with comcast.  If I can do that without spending money...  :-)  Much better!   I don't really care if once I move around within the pages, the comcast address come up again.  The whole point is to be able to reach that index page using vilagreen.com.   But I guess Comcast is not in the "big boy's league."

As far as godaddy goes, I'll follow your info.  I will log into my account, go to domain information and see what I can do.   Oops...  I see that the "Fowarding" is off.  I clicked "manage", enabled fowarding, and typed foward it to:  http://home.comcast.net/~vgreina/   (Which it doesn''t make sense to me, since I want to foward it to my domain...  But whatever.  We'll see what happens.)

It also reads: 

Note: When you enable forwarding and masking, you must manually update your nameservers to the Parked/Forwarded Nameservers before forwarding can take effect. To update your nameservers, click the Nameservers button in the action bar above after you have completed the forwarding and masking task.  I guess that's why when I type my domain, I see a bunch of **bleep** from godaddy posted there. 

If I have have to give them two nameservers, what do I write...  I'm dizzy!   And Noooo...  This time it's NOT because of martinis.

Anyway...  I have to wait a few minutes now...  Godaddy is working...  I guess I should leave you alone for now...  I'm getting tired!  I'll see what I can do tomorrow.  Thanks for your help and patience.  Nite, nite, Neil.

Val  :/

Message Edited by vgreina on 07-27-2009 10:31 PM

[vgreina]

Neillllllllllllllllll... Thank you sooooooooo much… It’s done! I'm sticking with "unmasked" 4 now. For someone that still learning this stuff, I feel like I accomplished something, huh…? LOL!!! (With your guys help, of course!) Thanksssssssssss a millionnnnnnnnnnnnnnnn! Problem solved.  You've been awesome! Xoxoxoxo! Cheers, Val :-)

Message Edited by vgreina on 07-28-2009 04:44 AM

[bigdadi68]

Did Comcast change something??  I entered the remote info into Dreamweaver just like you listed. Access: FTP   host: upload.comcast.net   Login: username   Password:  Password.  When I go to test it, I get an error message saying that an FTP error occurred - cannot make connectin to host.  The remote host cannot be found.

What gives?  Im ready to throw in the towell and it seems so easy.  Just doesnt work for me.  Any help would be appreciated.

[Again]

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bigdadi68 wrote:

Did Comcast change something??  I entered the remote info into Dreamweaver just like you listed. Access: FTP   host: upload.comcast.net   Login: username   Password:  Password.  When I go to test it, I get an error message saying that an FTP error occurred - cannot make connectin to host.  The remote host cannot be found.

What gives?  Im ready to throw in the towell and it seems so easy.  Just doesnt work for me.  Any help would be appreciated.

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I'm able to log in just fine with Dreamweaver CS3.  Where you have username, did you put in YOUR username, and where you have Password, did you put in YOUR password? Your password is case sensitive, btw. For example, using my screen name here I would put in "again" without the quotes for my Login, and if my password were "appleftp" I would put in "appleftp" without the quotes for my password.

Did you enable your PWP through My Account?

[ConwayBrew]

OK, creating the Dreamweaver page and getting uploaded were a piece of cake so my question might be posted in the wrong place but here goes:  The website continues to go a default directory location of http://home.comcast.net/~username/site/  rather than http://home.comcast.net/~username/index.htm and I want to know how (or if) I can change the default ping to go to the index.htm page rather than the Comcast designed site/?

Obviously, I can only hand out the URL with the index.htm but want to know if I can also eliminate the default URL.

Thanks!

[MadScotsman]

Let me restate the problem in case I've misunderstood.  When you used DreamWeaver to upload a file to your Comcast PWP site, it uploaded it to:

 http://home.comcast.net/~username/site/

instead of

http://home.comcast.net/~username/

The /site/ directory was added by DreamWeaver, not Comcast.  If I've understood the question correctly, you need to figure out why DreamWeaver added the /site/ folder and get it to stop. Then you'll be able to provide the url to your site as: http://home.comcast.net/~username, as long as your first page is called index.htm.  

Cheers, Neil.

[Again]

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MadScotsman wrote:

Let me restate the problem in case I've misunderstood.  When you used DreamWeaver to upload a file to your Comcast PWP site, it uploaded it to:

 http://home.comcast.net/~username/site/

instead of

http://home.comcast.net/~username/

The /site/ directory was added by DreamWeaver, not Comcast.  If I've understood the question correctly, you need to figure out why DreamWeaver added the /site/ folder and get it to stop. Then you'll be able to provide the url to your site as: http://home.comcast.net/~username, as long as your first page is called index.htm.  

Cheers, Neil.

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Neil, not true.  Dreamweaver only adds folders that you create, most usually an image folder.

Comcast's PWP tools adds the default /site/, so it sounds as though at one time the OP used those tools to create  a site, then decided Dreamweaver would be the better way to go [it is].

To  ConwayBrew, make sure you've put the URL in properly - case matters.  Index.html isn't the same as index.html, and, if memory serves me, I think that Dreamweaver defaults to Index.html.  You want the lowercase index.html.  If you post the URL to your site we might be able to figure out what went wrong and where.  Make sure, too, that your index.html is at the upper level in your Dreamweaver tree, and it needs to go into the root "/" of the PWP files.

[lead5alpha]

The ~username/site/ page is the default comcast page for all accounts.  Using dreamweaver you must name your main page one of the valid file names that the comcast directory directive list on the server accepts so that it reads your 3rd party authored page as your main page instead of the comcast default page.  These are index.html, index.htm, default.html, default.htm, home.html, home.htm, and test.html.  Which ever one the server finds first in your folder is the one served up instead of the ~username/site/ page.  There might be a couple of others that work but these all override the ~username/site/ page.  Like others mentioned the server is case sensitive so Index.html will not work for index.html.  If you named your main page in dreamweaver anything but one of the pages cited above it will not be served up at http://home.comcast.net/~username/ and you get the default comcast page.  If you named your page for example myhomepage.html you have to type the url:  http://home.comcast.net/~username/myhomepage.html into the browser to see your page.