Problem with Dreamweaver CS3 FTP and public_html

[ipaweb]

Hi,
After reading through the forum I've finally managed to get my DW FTP connecting. My problem is that it seems to insist on putting things into a folder 'iain' which is under 'public_html'. Where DW asks for 'Host Directory' I've tried several variations of 'public_html' but it always comes back with an error. The transfer into the 'iain' directory does work but it means I then have to copy the files up to the 'public_html' director' manually. Anyone know what I'm doing wrong?

Regards.

 

[bugfinder]

Nope My CS3 works fine.
You could try specifying the path as /home/username/public_html

The fact its trying to put everything into a directory called iain, when you look at the files locally within the dreamweaver site manager, are they under a directory called iain there? if so, thats the problem you need to change that directory so that iain directory is the top of the site.

 

[ipaweb]

Thanks Bugfinder, I'll try that. Unfortunately between me posting FTP was working and receiving your reply, the FTP seems to have stopped working. I'm not sure what has happened although I was playing about with various options under the 'Host Directory' option but I wouldn't have thought taht would have caused this. I took a note of the working settings and they're definitely the same?
Edit:
OK problem eliminated by removing old FTP account (which I had set up pointing to the wrong directory) and creating new account pointing to public_html. Thanks bugfinder.