Preview with CS4 or CS3 on OS10.5.4 gets wrong URL path

Question

First, I did a rather extensive search within the archives
for this before posting but, at least in my searches, could not
find any previous posts that addressed this.
I know what is happening I just don't know why. I am working
with a very simple static site. I've set up the path in the site
manager so that the root path is as follows:
/Users/phoppes/Documents/Development/Training/DreamweaverCS3/testsite
Links are relative to Document and I have enabled the cache.
This happens for both CS4 or CS3. If I create a simple one line
html file and hit preview, Firefox opens up but the path in the URL
is as follows:
file:///System/Users/phoppes/Documents/Development/Training/DreamweaverCS3/testsite/test.h tml
I get the "File not Found" message:
Firefox can't find the file at
/System/Users/phoppes/Documents/Development/Training/DreamweaverCS3/testsite/test.html.
My HD on my Mac is named System. Obviously something inside
of DW is attaching the /System to the front of the URL to open
Firefox. If I go into the URL tab in Firefox and hack out the
/System, the page is found and displays correctly. If I try to
redefine the site root in the Site Manager with the /System in the
front DW does not like this. It complains it cannot find the path
as I believe DW is appending /System to the front itself so the
path becomes /System/System/Users/.... which is incorrect also. I
can work around this,....I have to hack the url every time I do a
preview but it is a PITA and I'd like to not have to do this if
possible.
Any help would be appreciated.
PS - Not sure if this is causing it but I do have a custom
/etc/hosts file on my machine. The top looks like the following:
127.0.0.1 localhost
255.255.255.255 broadcasthostt
::1 localhost
Following this line are static IP's for machines on my local
network. This machine is networked via DHCP
so there is not a listing for this machine in the hosts file.

Answer 1

What is in the HTTP address field of the Local site
definition?
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"rimcrazyph" <[email protected]> wrote in
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> First, I did a rather extensive search within the
archives for this before
> posting but, at least in my searches, could not find any
previous posts
> that
> addressed this.
>
> I know what is happening I just don't know why. I am
working with a very
> simple static site. I've set up the path in the site
manager so that the
> root
> path is as follows:
>
>
/Users/phoppes/Documents/Development/Training/DreamweaverCS3/testsite
>
> Links are relative to Document and I have enabled the
cache. This happens
> for
> both CS4 or CS3. If I create a simple one line html file
and hit preview,
> Firefox opens up but the path in the URL is as follows:
>
>
>
file:///System/Users/phoppes/Documents/Development/Training/DreamweaverCS3/tests
> ite/test.html
>
> I get the "File not Found" message:
>
> Firefox can't find the file at
>
/System/Users/phoppes/Documents/Development/Training/DreamweaverCS3/testsite/tes
> t.html.
>
> My HD on my Mac is named System. Obviously something
inside of DW is
> attaching the /System to the front of the URL to open
Firefox. If I go
> into
> the URL tab in Firefox and hack out the /System, the
page is found and
> displays
> correctly. If I try to redefine the site root in the
Site Manager with
> the
> /System in the front DW does not like this. It complains
it cannot find
> the
> path as I believe DW is appending /System to the front
itself so the path
> becomes /System/System/Users/.... which is incorrect
also. I can work
> around
> this,....I have to hack the url every time I do a
preview but it is a PITA
> and
> I'd like to not have to do this if possible.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> PS - Not sure if this is causing it but I do have a
custom /etc/hosts file
> on
> my machine. The top looks like the following:
>
> 127.0.0.1 localhost
> 255.255.255.255 broadcasthostt
> ::1 localhost
>
> Following this line are static IP's for machines on my
local network.
> This
> machine is networked via DHCP
> so there is not a listing for this machine in the hosts
file.
>
>
>