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rockymtnhigh

New Member

Publishing to a folder on a mounted volume - a solution!

Here is the situation.   On my university server, I have a mounted volume on a web server where I publish my web sites.  This server does not have WebDAV or FTP; in the past I have just mounted it as a local drive on my mac, and published to it using Dreamweaver.   

But with Sandvox I can only publish to my home folder, not to a folder on a different volume.    I was sitting to write this to ask for help, when I figured out a solution that I figured I would share.    I mounted the remote volume, went to the folder where I want to publish the sandbox site, and used a program I downloaded called SymbolicLinker (I am not spamming for them, so you can do a google search to find it).   And right clicked the folder, selected services, and made a symlink.    I then dragged that symlink to my /home/sites/ folder 

I then went into Sandvox, created a new site, set it to publish to my home directory, in the folder named for the symlink file.  It balked at me, saying I needed to run on sharing and the like, but I hit continue, and then published it.   It completely fooled the program, and published the site to the folder on the mounted drive.

If I do say so myself, brilliant.   

NOW - PLEASE provide us with the ability to publish to ANY local folder on our macs, and not have to go through this complex rigamarole.   Thank you!  :)

macdafydd

Avenger

Re: Publishing to a folder on a mounted volume - a solution!

Strange. I have no problem in publishing (using Export…) to any mounted volume. Perhaps I don't understand the problem.

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rockymtnhigh

New Member

Re: Publishing to a folder on a mounted volume - a solution!

Strange. I have no problem in publishing (using Export…) to any mounted volume. Perhaps I don't understand the problem.

Don't I feel like a DOLT!  I never realized there was an "Export" tool in the menu.    That will do the trick without the run-around, but I still find the Publish setup a bit strange, and not sure why the "export" isn't just built in to the main publish settings, so you could just publish directly to a volume.

rockymtnhigh

New Member

Re: Publishing to a folder on a mounted volume - a solution!

Strange. I have no problem in publishing (using Export…) to any mounted volume. Perhaps I don't understand the problem.

Don't I feel like a DOLT!  I never realized there was an "Export" tool in the menu.    That will do the trick without the run-around, but I still find the Publish setup a bit strange, and not sure why the "export" isn't just built in to the main publish settings, so you could just publish directly to a volume.

I agree.    I think it should be all centrally located in the Publish button.    I realize that the software is intended to be for the "iWeb" crowd, and keeps things simple, but after years of fighting with Dreamweaver, I find it refreshingly easy - and powerful.   Hopefully over time it will continue to develop.