Using Dreamweaver with WebDav for secure website uploading

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1. Login to cPanel and select the Web Disk icon

2. Create a webdav account as shown

3. In Dreamweaver select the Site menu then choose New Site and fill in the details for your site and click next

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4. You can choose whether to edit locally or on the server, choose which you prefer and click next

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5. You then need to enter the details for your webdav account that you just set up, for the server address this is https://www.yourdomain.com:2078 replacing yourdomain.com with your site address, and using the username and password you just created in cPanel.


6. Once you’ve entered these details click test connection and you should see this working as shown above