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CHAPTER 7 Tutorial: Publishing Your Site This tutorial shows you how to set up a remote site with Macromedia Dreamweaver 8 and publish your web pages. A remote site is usually a place on a remote computer, running a web server, that holds copies of your local files. Users access the remote site running on the web server when they view your pages in a browser. In this tutorial, you will complete the following tasks: Learn about remote sites 129 Define a remote folder 130 Upload your local files 133 Troubleshoot the remote folder setup (optional 134 Learn about remote sites After you create a website, the next step is to publish it by uploading the files to a remote folder. A remote folder is where you store your files for testing, production, collaboration, and publication (depending on your environment). Dreamweaver refers to this folder as your remote site. Before you can proceed, you must have access to a remote web server- such as your ISP's server, a server owned by the client you're working for, an intranet server within your company, or an Internet Information Services (IIS) server on a Windows computer. If you don't already have access to such a server, contact your ISP, your client, or your system administrator. Alternatively, you can run a web server such as IIS (Windows) or Apache (Macintosh) on your local computer. For more information about setting up a web server on your local computer, see Appendix B, "Installing a Web Server," on page 231. 7 129