Getting connected to the ASE server

If you use Dreamweaver to update the website for your department, center, or student organization, you will need to upgrade to Dreamweaver 8.

Versions of Dreamweaver prior to version 8 do not support the WebDAV publishing feature over SSL, and are, therefore, unsupported.  If your department does not have a copy of Dreamweaver 8 and does not have the resources to purchase it, please contact ITS at webupdates@ase.tufts.edu and we will accommodate you. In the meantime, you can download a free version (for one month's use).

Below are step-by-step instructions of how to connect and post files to our new server via Dreamweaver 8 and it's built-in WebDAV feature.

1. Launch Dreamweaver 8.
    
2. Go to the Site menu and select Manage Sites.
    
3. Highlight your site if it's listed and click Edit (or click on the "New" button if you don't have any sites listed).
    
4. Give the site a name and put in its address (http://ase.tufts.edu/siteName).  So, if you were the physics department, it would be http://ase.tufts.edu/physics. Click next.
    
5. Keep the default "No, I do not want to use a server technology" (unless you already have scripting enabled). Click Next.
    
6. Keep the default "Edit local copies on my machine, then upload to server when ready."  Below that, click the yellow folder to browse to the folder where you want to store your local copies.  Click next.
    
7. Select WebDAV from the drop down arrow, then enter the publishing URL https://webdav.ase.tufts.edu/ase/departments/siteName. (So, if you were updating the Physics website which is http://ase.tufts.edu/physics, your publishing location would be: https://webdav.ase.tufts.edu/ase/departments/physics).
    
   Put in your username and password.  Your user name and password is the same as your Tufts domain (network) account.  It is recommended to check off "Refresh remote file list automatically.  Click "Test the connection."
    
8. After the connection has been tested, click next. Specify if you want to use check-in/out (keep the default "NO" unless more than one person will be making edits to the site at the same time).  Click next.
    
9. Review and click Done.  Click Done again to exit small window.
    
10. Once you make the edits to your local files, click the blue arrow button to send your files up to the server.  The blue arrow button is located under the Files tab in right panel.