Dreamweaver CS4 Library Update Pathing Problem

Hi folks,
I've been using Dreamweaver since version 3, but I just
recently encountered a very strange problem which breaks my ability
to update my site with library items. When the problem occurred, I
tried creating a new site definition and the update process worked
until I made a change to the remote host directory for the site.
Once I made that change, the host directory is now somehow part of
the library path even though the host directory does not exist in
my local folder structure.
For example, the correct path to my library item in my
templates and pages is:
"/library/footer.lbi"
However, if in the Site definition window I add the following
entry to the Remote Info category:
Host directory: ABC (or ABC/ as Dreamweaver redefines it)
I get this error message when trying to update the site's
pages (even after rebuilding the site cache):
item E:\My Documents\Web
Sites\www.abc.com\library\footer.lbiE:\My Documents\Web
Sites\www.abc.com\library\footer.lbi contains an invalid path.
When I add the library item to a page (after the Host
Directory change), then this is the path it creates in the Web page
to the library item (and thus causes the error message above):

This site definition worked perfect in previous versions of
Dreamweaver, so I'm confused as to why this strange glitch is
happening.
Links are relative to the document for this site and all of
my sites (as they always have been). Any ideas?

Hi Alan,
I resolved this issue a few months ago. I'm sorry for the delay in a response--multiple career syndrome and online classes are the culprits.
I believe the solution was removing an entry that Dreamweaver had automatically entered in the HTTP address field of the Local Info category on the Advanced tab of my site definition. If my memory serves correctly, Dreamweaver had entered the Host Directory from the Remote Info tab after the HTTP address' domain and somehow this affected library updates. (I have no Testing Server settings entered, by the way.)
Here are answers to your numerous questions as a courtesy, albeit much delayed:
Question: "is this a regular site or an RDS site?"
Answer: I am not familiar with the RDS acronym. I will assume that this may be an acronym referring to data in some way, such as the now deprecated Microsoft Remote Data Services technology. The generic problem posed in my question refers to a static site without any database components.
Question: "Is the icon next to the topmost folder in the local side of the Files Panel a folder icon, or a network icon? [two tiny computers with a wire between them]"
Answer: The icon next to the top identifier or container for my site in the Files Panel under Local Files is always a folder in all of my sites.
Question: "is the Library folder in the root level of the local site folder?"
Answer: Yes.
Question(s): "what kind of drive is E? is it a removable or a network drive? Or is it in your computer?"
Answer: Drive E is an internal hard drive partition in my computer.

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Essentially, can I define Dreamweaver "include paths" for Dreamweaver to search in if the file I'm trying to include is not in the same directory?

athensmusician wrote:
As any PHP developer knows, you are never supposed to use relative paths with included or required files.
Perhaps you ought to inform the PHP documentation team. All the examples in the PHP manual use relative paths.
Essentially, can I define Dreamweaver "include paths" for Dreamweaver to search in if the file I'm trying to include is not in the same directory?
Dreamweaver parses only relative paths in PHP includes. The Related Files feature was a new addition in Dreamweaver CS4, so it's not 100% perfect. Having the ability to define your own include_path for Dreamweaver to parse would be a useful improvement. Make your voice heard by submitting a feature request through the form at https://www.adobe.com/cfusion/mmform/index.cfm?name=wishform.

Dreamweaver CS4 html email absolute paths help

Anyones help would be so great to this! I am going crazy.
I have read all posts I can find on creating HTML emails. I find that images in DreamWeaver need to have absolute paths. Ok, I will try to be as clear as possible.
I created the page (email) in DreamWeaver CS4. I connected to my server fine to get access to my images. I also uploaded the index.html file in the server file with the images.
I used Cyberduck to upload the images to my server once I created an FTP Account. Creating the account gave me:
Manual Settings
FTP Username: [email protected]
FTP Server: ftp.toledocitypaper.com
FTP Server Port: 21
SFTP Server Port: 22
Within Cyberduck it explains:
ftp:toledocitypaper.com
ftp://[email protected]@ftp.toledocitypaper.com//[email protected]@ftp.toledocitypaper.com
Here I find one issue: I created a folder called citytest with my images and when I click Open URL the page opens blank. Here is the URL it generates:
http://ftp.toledocitypaper.com/citytest/ADAMSNEWScitcroppedy_01.jpg
Now I need to generate absolute paths for the images in DreamWeaver. I would think you need to put the http address in the SRC field? Now with files located and dragged and dropped on my page I get a input such as ../Library/Application Support/Adobe/Dreamweaver CS4/en_US/Configuration/ServerConnections/Unnamed Site 5/citytest/ADAMSNEWScitcroppedy_15.jpg
Can anyone explain how I can make an absolute path for these images? everything I have enetered for the SRC image doesn't work. I get an image with a broken link when I enter any info I have found.
I also prievewed the html file in Safari and it looks fine with images dragged from server Local files in DW. I click Mail Contest of this page then it shows up in my Mac email as outgoing image. Looks fine for a second then all images turn to Missing Plug-in. The images I tried to enter a URL for in the SRC show up as little blue boxes with question marks.
I have a feeling I need a working URL to these images and I have no idea what this is. If this helps we use Gator Host.

If you have uploaded your citytest folder with images to the root folder on the server,
the proper link would be http://toledocitypaper.com/citytest/ADAMSNEWScitcroppedy_15.jpg

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