Previewing on local testing server

Question

When previewing a file in the Dreamweaver development
environment, Dreamweaver loads the file, say testfile.html, in the
browser with its file system address, eg
file://Applications/MAMP/htdocs/jsMath/test/testfile.html. However,
the local website address of this file is
http://localhost:8888/jsMath/test/testfile.html.
This leads to a security error
Security Error: Content at
file:///Applications/MAMP/htdocs/jsMath/test/testfile.html may not
load data from
http://localhost:8888/jsMath/plugins/autoload.js.
The problem can be circumvented by avoiding the Dreamweaver
preview and hand-loading the file directly as
http://localhost:8888/jsMath/test/testfile.html
Surely the preview feature must not be bound by this
restriction. What might be done to get preview to work properly
with this local testing server?
-dao

Answer 1

daoliver wrote:
> Surely the preview feature must not be bound by this
restriction. What might
> be done to get preview to work properly with this local
testing server?
You need to define the testing server correctly in your site
definition.
In your case, the Testing server folder field should be set
to
Applications/MAMP/htdocs/jsMath/test/ and the URL prefix to
http://localhost:8888/jsMath/test/.
David Powers
Adobe Community Expert, Dreamweaver
http://foundationphp.com