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Setting up Dreamweaver MX for use With the Projects Server Projects Server Recently, there has been a new server setup in the College of Education that is strictly for webdesign and web development projects. The name of this server is projects.coe.uga.edu. This server will allow you to add features that will further the functionality of your webpage to work with database applications MySQL and Access, along with server side scripting applications such as PHP and Active Server Pages (ASP). Setting it up with Dreamweaver MX Dreamweaver MX is a great webpage developing software that allows you to use it to save files to the server and also download files to a server of your choice to make your webpage setup a little easier. Dreamweaver does so by using File Transfer Protocol (FTP) to do so. However , the projects server, projects.coe.uga.edu, in the College of Education at the University of Georgia is currently using a Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP). Therefore, when using Dreamweaver MX, a "bridge" needs to be set up to allow access with the projects server. Essentially, a "bridge" will make a third party connection with the server which will allow your connection to be secure as opposed to a direct connection. These few instructions will give you the ability to use the server by helping you set up the FTP to SFTP bridge to use while designing with Dreamweaver MX. If you run into any problems after completing this process, please contact the Office of Information Technology helpdesk at 542-4357. ** Note: this process is essentially the same for PC and Mac Users **
Visit the website: http://www.appgate.com/mindterm/download.php. Click the link that says MindTerm application binaries to download the necessary files to your hard drive.
(You may also download the source code and the documentation if you wish, but it is not necessary for use with this application.)
The .bin file will extract itself into a folder on your desktop called "mindterm_2.3.1-bin" Folder. Click thumbnail to view >>>
Within this folder there will be an icon titled mindterm.jar Click on this icon to launch the application. If this application doesn't launch, you will need to download the Java Runtime Environment from the Sun website: http://java.sun.com.
Download the Java 2 Enterprise Edition (J2EE) or the Java 2 Standard Edition (J2SE). Launch the application to install it on your machine. Restart your machine and try running mindterm.jar again.
You will see a prompt in the MindTerm box that says SSH Server/Alias. Click thumbnail to view >>>
Enter the name of the server you are trying to access. Using the projects server, you will use projects.coe.uga.edu. You will then be prompted for your username and password. Click thumbnail to view >>> After you have successfully entered this information, you will be sent to your root directory. If you wish to change to another directory under your username, you may do so using the cd [directory name here] command.
Select the option "FTP to SFTP Bridge" from the plugins menu in MindTerm. You will see a pop up window with a "listen address" and a "listen port." Leave these fields in the default settings (127.0.0.1 and 21), and click Enable. Click thumbnail to view >>> You may then minimize MindTerm, but do not exit. MindTerm must continue to run for the bridge and MindTerm will redirect all regular FTP connections to host 127.0.0.1 to the server as SFTP connections.
Once the bridge is set up and active, you can use any regular FTP client to connect a webstage. You will need to tell the regular FTP client (in Dreamweaver, the FTP settings) to connect to host 127.0.0.1. Once you are finished with your file uploading/downloading, you may quit MindTerm and Dreamweaver. For descriptive examples once you have connected, please follow these links:
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Example 1: