Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP) using Dreamweaver MX 2004

The Office of Information Technology requires secure transactions on servers. Macromedia Dreamweaver MX 2004 includes an SFTP feature. Below you will find instructions for setting up secure FTP uploading.

Under the Site Menu click on Manage Sites

Select your site from the pop-up list and click on the Edit… button

Click on the Advanced tab

Drag to the Remote Info section on the left.
Click on the “Use Secure FTP (SFTP)” button

Hit OK.

For faculty websites, please use the above configuration. The password is the password of the personal email account.

Hit Done.

You are now set up to use SFTP in Dreamweaver. If you wish to use the internal SFTP included in Dreamweaver, you must use Dreamweaver MX 2004 – it is the first version of Dreamweaver with this SFTP feature. You can download a shared copy of Dreamweaver MX 2004 from the OIT Download Site.

To Increase the SFTP Timeout for Dreamweaver MX 2004

If you are using the SFTP feature and are having trouble connecting to the web server, you may need to increase the amount of time Dreamweaver will attempt to connect to the server before it returns an unable to connect message.

Click on Site and increase the number of seconds for FTP timeout

Hit OK

You have now increased the SFTP timeout.