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F12 to preview page in a browser is showing me my start page instead?

Jun 21, 2012 11:41 AM

Tags: #dreamweaver #browser #dw #f12 #preview_page

Pressing F12 to preview the page I'm working on in DW in a browser is instead showing me my start page.  I am so confused why this has started happening and would like to know how to reset F12 to preview my current page in DW instead of simply opening a new brower pointing to my browser's home page?

1010 Views   9 Replies   Latest reply: MurraySummers, Jun 25, 2012 11:05 AM
 
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  • Nancy O.
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    1. Nancy O.,
    Jun 21, 2012 12:25 PM   in reply to tasetta
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    Can you show us your code?  Or better still, can you show us a link to your site?

     

     

     

    Nancy O.

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  • tasetta
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    2. tasetta,
    Jun 21, 2012 1:04 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    It's not in the code.   The page that's live online is ok.   It's the changes I'm making that I want to preview without uploading.   I'm thinking I must have changed some settings from inside dreamweaver.

     

    When i hit f12, it asks if I want to update the file on the testing server then proceeds to act like it's uploading to online but then I just get a new browser window with my search engine page (which is my browser's home page)

     

    I think it's something inside Site, Manage Site, Edit, and then

    In Local Info, my http address is set to http://.

    In Remote Info, my ftp host = www.annablueberry.com/practice, host directory = blank.

    In Testing Server, ftp host = www.annablueberry.com/practice, host directory = blank, url prefix = www.annablueberry.com/practice

     

    I think at least one or more of these might be set incorrectly.  One of these should be set to localhost, shouldn't it?

     
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  • Nancy O.
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    3. Nancy O.,
    Jun 21, 2012 1:22 PM   in reply to tasetta
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    Testing server should be http://localhost/YourSite/

     

    DW-Site-Def-Testing.jpg

     

     

    Nancy O.

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  • tasetta
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    4. tasetta,
    Jun 23, 2012 4:10 PM   in reply to Nancy O.
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    Okay, I'm halfway there now.   Now instead of giving me the search engine, F12 gives me a "Unable to connect:  Firefox can't establish a connection to the server at localhost" page.

     

    I cannot quite read the first bit on the testing server folder between C: and www, or does that not matter as long as it's somewhere on my C: ?

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    5. MurraySummers,
    Jun 24, 2012 5:36 AM   in reply to tasetta
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    Do you NEED a testing server for this site?  Is it a dynamic (e.g., ASP/PHP/CF) site?  If it's ordinary, static HTML, then you should not enter anything for a testing server.

     
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  • tasetta
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    6. tasetta,
    Jun 25, 2012 10:06 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    Right now, it's ordinary, static html, but I'm going to be installing wordpress.    Hm, that may be how I went wrong here.  I changed the testing server model  to PHP/MySQL....

     

    Hm, seems to be where I went wrong indeed as I had Acess set to local/network.   I changed that to none, and F12 is now previewing my updated pages nicely.   Thank you very much for asking that question.

     

    Will I need to change this when I have wordpress installed?

     
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  • MurraySummers
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    7. MurraySummers,
    Jun 25, 2012 10:20 AM   in reply to tasetta
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    It would depend on how you intend to work with WP.  On my WP sites, I only use DW for a quick local edit of some code, relying exclusively on the WP admin to do everything else.

     
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  • tasetta
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    8. tasetta,
    Jun 25, 2012 10:31 AM   in reply to MurraySummers
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    Ah, okay. 

    Well, I'm building a porfolfio site for myself to show my work.   And was planning to use wordpress on the homepage as a way to periodically share or update news.

     

    I've been having trouble getting started with wp and so have not had a chance to get familiar with it yet.

     

    However, it sounds like wordpress ought to come first before designing my basic layout in DW?

     

    I pretty already much know how I'd like my page to look tho, so if I do it in DW, will I be able to copy it over into WP

     

     

    or I should just start the whole thing from scratch in WP?

     
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    9. MurraySummers,
    Jun 25, 2012 11:05 AM   in reply to tasetta
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    or I should just start the whole thing from scratch in WP?

     

    That's the ticket.  Seach the enormous universe of WP themes out there until you find one that has the layout infrastructure you are looking for and the native widgets you are wanting.  Start with that theme and just change the CSS & images.  That'll get you going pretty fast.

     
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