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Note:
Connection keys are not available for blogs.
Preparing to connect to a website or blog
Collect the following information before you begin:
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Your user name and e-mail address
The user name and e-mail address identify users and the web pages or blog entries they are working on. Contribute
prevents multiple users from simultaneously editing the same web page. (Contribute uses a system much like the
Dreamweaver check in and check out system to avoid editing conflicts.)
If you have multiple copies of Contribute, use a different user name for each copy. For example, Chris(laptop), and
Chris(Mac). Using the same user name can cause problems because you can override checkouts you make on the
other computer.
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Web address of the website or blog server
A website’s Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is its address either on the Internet or on an organization’s intranet.
Website URLs usually have the following form:
http://www.mysite.com/
A blog server’s access point Uniform Resource Locator (URL) is its address either on the Internet or your organi-
zation’s intranet. Blog server URLs usually have the following form:
http://blogname.blogsite.com
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Network path to the website (for connecting to local networks)
The network path is the location of the website in your organization’s local network. The network path includes the
name of the server on which the website is stored and the directory path of the website’s files on that server. For
example, your network path might be \\mycomputer\wwwroot\ (Windows) or afp://server:volume: (Macintosh).
Note:
If you are a Mac OS X user, to create a LAN connection, make sure to mount the network volume of the server
you are creating a connection to on your computer desktop before you create your connection. In the Finder, select Go >
Connect to Server to mount the network to which you want to connect.
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FTP or SFTP connection information
FTP provides a secure way to transfer files to your local or remote web server. If you will connect to your website
from a remote location (for example, telecommuting from home or another office) you may need to connect to the
website using FTP, to transfer files from a remote location across the Internet to your website (for example, if you
don’t have a local network connection to the website).
If you or your users will connect to your website by using FTP or SFTP, you must know the address of the FTP server
as well as the user name and password to connect to the FTP server. For example, your FTP server’s address might
be ftp.mysite.com.
Note:
For websites that are that CPS manages, require users to use their own FTP or SFTP account information to
connect to the website.
• Verification that Contribute directly supports your blog
Blogs hosted on Blogger, TypePad, Roller, or WordPress are directly supported in Contribute.