Preview in browser - Firefox / File not found

Question

Specs:
OS X 10.4.7
Dreamweaver 8.0.2
Firefox 1.5.0.1
I (and my whole office) am having a major problem. We all
work directly from files on our osx server. When working in
Dreamweaver and trying to "Preview in browser" with Firefox 1.5 we
get a "File not found" error. The problem seems to be stemming from
the path lacking the "Volumes" part of the directory.
For example:
When I preview in Safari the path is shown as:
file:///Volumes/Server_HD/Website_Folder/index.html (this
works)
But on Firefox or Mozilla I get:
file:///Server_HD/Website_Folder/index.html (this does not
work)
This problem did not occur in previous versions of Firefox.
Due do this problem, I have virtually eliminated Firefox as part of
my workflow in favor of Safari. I would love to return to Firefox
can anybody please help me!?

Answer 1

Can you try again please, although not in a narrative? Just
go to the
ADVANCED tab on the Site Definition panel, and list the
contents of the
fields you see for Local, Remote, and Testing Categories (no
need for the
login info).
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"cyberfactotum" <[email protected]> wrote in
message
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>>>Please describe for us the details of your site
definition.<<
>
> OK. Here goes.
>
> On the DW welcome screen, i clicked on Create New DW
site. The wizard
> started,
> and I named my site (in this case Lieserl) and entered
the URL and pressed
> Next.
>
> Next screen, I selected the radio button "No, I do not
want to use a
> server
> technology" and pressed Next.
>
> Next screen, I selected the radio button "Edit local
copies on my machine,
> then upload to server when ready (recommended)". Also on
this screen to
> indicate "Where on you computer do you want to store
your files", I
> clicked on
> the little folder symbol and navigated to my hard drive
named Fiji and
> selected
> my Documents folder there and a subfolder called
Websites. The resulting
> path
> displayed when I pressed the Choose button was:
>
> Fiji:Users:cyberfactotum:Documents:Websites:Lieserl:
>
> I pressed Next and on the next screen chose that I
connected to my remote
> server via FTP and entered all my info and tested the
connection. The
> testing
> worked. I pressed Next and radio buttoned "No, do not
enable check in and
> check
> out", pressed Next and then pressed Done on the next
screen.
>
> I then created a simple index.html file in DW and
Previewed it in Safari.
> It
> worked like a charm. The URL of the previewed file in
Safari was:
>
>
file:///Users/cyberfactotum/Documents/Websites/Lieserl/index.html
>
> Then I tried to Preview in Firefox. I got the "Problem
loading page" in
> Firefox:
>
> File not found
>
> Firefox can't find the file at
>
/Fiji/Users/cyberfactotum/Documents/Websites/Lieserl/index.html
>
> * Check the file name for capitalization or other typing
errors.
> * Check to see if the file was moved, renamed or
deleted.
>
> The URL of the error-producing previewed file in Firefox
at this point
> was:
>
>
file:///Fiji/Users/cyberfactotum/Documents/Websites/Lieserl/index.html
>
> (Note the extra drivename of "Fiji" that is in the
Firefox URL as opposed
> to
> the Safari URL. When I pasted the Safari URL in the
Firefox, it worked.)
>
> I then went to Manage Sites to edit my site. I removed
"Fiji:" from the
> Local
> root folder name, not by clicking on the little folder
symbol to navigate
> its
> location through the Mac OS X interface, but simply by
deleting "Fiji:"
> from
> the name displayed in the site editor.
>
> After completing this I OK'd the prompt: The cache will
now be recreated
> because the name, root folder, HTTP address, or cloaking
settings of the
> site
> have been changed.
>
> I Preview in Safari. The preview works fine. It has the
same URL as it did
> before:
>
>
file:///Users/cyberfactotum/Documents/Websites/Lieserl/index.html
>
> I Preview in Firefox. The preview works fine now, and
the URL is identical
> now
> to the one in Safari.
>
> So, somehow Safari is smart enough to correctly resolve
DW drive paths on
> a
> Mac, while Firefox is not smart enough without that
extra step. It seems
> that
> others have a similar but different problem: they have
to add "Volumes:"
> to
> their site path to get Firefox to correctly resolve the
path.
>
> If I am approaching this incorrectly, please let me
know. I don't think I
> am.
> I think there is a bug in DW that causes this behavior
when previewing
> with
> Firefox but not when previewing with Safari.
>