We have just recently migrated from GoLive to DW and that went well. However it
was only on my local machine. I need to set up our sites in DW to access our
local server so that my colleagues can access the sites as well.
What is the recommended way of doing this? Set up the local site with the
server address? What about remote and testing servers. I still feel I need to
manually move our files out to our stage site and live site as we have to login
to those servers to access them. Any advice?

> We have just recently migrated from GoLive to DW and that went well.
> However it
> was only on my local machine. I need to set up our sites in DW to access
> our
> local server so that my colleagues can access the sites as well.
> What is the recommended way of doing this? Set up the local site with the
> server address? What about remote and testing servers.

If just using DW, then you need to set up multiple site definitions:

(local -> remote)

mysite - staging
localPC <-> your shared staging/network folder

mysite - production migration
your shared staging/network folder <-> your production server

-Darrel

I don't follow.

I currently have my "Local Info" set up to pull files off of our local network
server, but to utilize the check-in/check-out feature I need to set up the
remote info also. Can I have that direct to my same local network location?
Then which "mode" do we use to modify files: local? remote?

I can't/won't set up the remote info to go to our production server. It is one
that we have to login to as we need it and is not always connected. It's still
a local server. It is not FTP. Not to mention I don't trust my staff to
remember which mode they are using to update files that aren't ready to go
live. Were they in local or remote when they were updating?

> I currently have my "Local Info" set up to pull files off of our local
> network
> server, but to utilize the check-in/check-out feature I need to set up the
> remote info also. Can I have that direct to my same local network
> location?

You don't want that. You want to work on files locally. You check them out
of your staging server, copying them to your local machine, make edits, and
then check them back in to the staging server.

> I can't/won't set up the remote info to go to our production server. It is
> one
> that we have to login to as we need it and is not always connected.

OK, well then you can just skip that part.

-Darrel