Dreamweaver Connection Problems

[qaddisin]

please point me in the right direction. i have dreamweaver 2004 with a localhost server (apache 2.0), php 4.3.8 and mysql server 4.1.5-gamma.

now everything is working - i can connect to mysql through other clients but dw is telling me that the server isn't there.

i can do everything by hand (which i will probably end up doing anyways) but i would like to use dreamweaver automated tasks/features and stuff.

anyone else have this problem. i've searched long and hard and can't seem to find anything. thanks.

[Digitalosophy]

now everything is working - i can connect to mysql through other clients but dw is telling me that the server isn't there.


I don't understand?

Either way check out:
http://www.macromedia.com/support/dreamweaver/tutorial_index.html

Building Dynamic Pages toward the middle of the page.

[lunatic]

If you look in the Databases section of the Application tab in DW do you see your SQL database there?

:hr:

[qaddisin]

The error I am getting looks like this:

1) There is no testing server running on the server machine.
2) The testing server specified for this site does not map to the http://localhost/_mmServerScripts/MMHTTPDB.php URL.
...and so on.

I believe its a Dreamweaver problem becuase myphpmyadmin and
mysql control center connect to the mysql server with no problem.
I can also connect to the mysql server by hand-coding it. Has anyone
else had this problem? Thanks for the link but I have already went down
that road.

[ciab]

check in your local sites root directory for a folder called _mmServerScripts, delete it and reload dreamweaver (it will recreate it)

hope that helps

[qaddisin]

i've decided to forget dreamweavers lack of compatibility and code everything by hand. i will use dreamweaver as an editor but i won't use its server application features. i've had to patch at least five or six things in the past becuase the server scripts were old and outdated. you'd think macromedia would have an update for these things. oh and the problem is a server script thing nothing else - i could easily install an older version of mysql and put it in the root directory but i think this is all for the best. :)

thanks people for your responses and take care.

[Digitalosophy]

I think using Dreamweaver for server side stuff isn't a great idea unless the person really doesn't want to learn any server side coding.

I think it's great for the average designer who knows little about coding, why pay someone to do work you can do right?

But all in all Dreamweaver is crap with the server behaviors, it creates an obserd amount of code to do the littlest task, and I also don't like the fact that you have to manually create a DNS-less connections.

In most cases it's a complete b$tch when it comes time to uploading to your webserver anyway.

Also, I can't connect to mySQL located on my webserver, which kinda sucks too.

my 2 cents