Dreamweaver & Plesk

[Denise]

I have a new VPS and I asked my host, who is quite partial to cPanel, which I hate because I can never find anything and it reminds me of every crummy host I have ever been with, to install Plesk. Now I like Plesk so far, but I am getting an error in Dreamweaver when I log in:

Dreamweaver cannot determine the remote server time...

Now this is not a big thing, but I do use that feature sometimes and I don't want my VPS server to be less than best. My host had a hard time figuring out the problem, but came up with this:

"Plesk does not allow you write access to your ftp root. I have changed the permissions so now your dreamweaver feature should work just fine."

Yes, in fact that did work for one of my domains on my VPS server. I don't know what the tech did, but I asked how to do it for the rest of my domains. Anybody know? Also, will this cause problems?

Thanks,
Denise

 

[jwdick]

In the "Remote Info" section of Dreamweaver you should have the following information;

Access: FTP
FTP host: your ip address ( xx.xx.xx.xx )
Host Directory: /httpdocs/
login: Your ftp username
Password: Your ftp password

 

[Denise]

Thanks for the reply. That did work. I usually don't login to my ftp sites at that level. It makes it impossible to access the cgi-bin (or in plesk the https directory, etc.) because they are above the http directory.

Denise

 

[jwdick]

You still should be able to log in even above that level.

change Host Directory to: /

It works for me with Dreamweaver.

 

[Denise]

I have my directory set to / and I am getting the server time error message. Hmmm... it works for you? Did you change your server's permissions? (that you can upload to the root)

 

[jwdick]

The permissions for the top level are:


drwxr-xr-x 2 root psaserv 1024 Oct 7 12:24 bin
drwxr-x--- 3 ftpuser psaserv 1024 Sep 8 2005 cgi-bin
drwxr-x--- 2 root psaserv 1024 Oct 7 12:27 conf
drwxr-xr-x 2 root psaserv 1024 Oct 7 12:24 error_docs
drwxr-x--- 19 ftpuser psaserv 1024 Oct 7 12:24 httpdocs
drwxr-x--- 9 ftpuser psaserv 1024 Sep 27 2005 httpsdocs
drwxr-x--- 2 root psaserv 1024 Oct 7 12:25 pd
drwx------ 2 ftpuser root 1024 Sep 7 2005 private
dr-xr-x--- 8 root psaserv 1024 Oct 7 12:24 statistics
drwxr-xr-x 2 root psaserv 1024 Oct 7 12:24 subdomains
drwxr-xr-x 2 root psaserv 1024 Oct 7 12:24 web_users

 

[Denise]

Thanks, I'll use that as a guide. I'm looking for where that is now. (new to plesk)

 

[jwdick]

That should be:

/var/www/vhosts/domainname/

 

[Denise]

Thanks so much for all your help.