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Re: Contribute cannot verify your connection information

Subject: Re: Contribute cannot verify your connection information
From: "raelehman"
Date: Thu, 12 Mar 2009 02:50:16 +0000 UTC
Newsgroups: macromedia.contribute.connection_administration

I'm having a similar connection issue. Using Dreamweaver / Contribute CS4 on 
Windows,  I also have users using Contribute 3.1 on Mac. I mainly administer in 
DW but sometimes use Contribute for things that can't be done in Dreamweaver.

 During development of our site we had it on a separate subdomain from our main 
business application, and connection was never a problem. When we launched the 
site we kept all the files in the same place we did for development (a separate 
folder in the web root from our secure business application which shares the 
same domain/url). We use virtual folders in IIS to point to the appropriate 
website directories for the pages on the website, so that our application is in 
one directory and our site is in another, and it's all routed through the same 
URL and home page. For the first week, everything worked fine. 

 Then my Contribute users started getting connection problems, Contribute would 
say that they couldn't edit certain pages.  When I triy to administer the site 
in Dreamweaver, I get an error saying that Dreamweaver can't connect to the 
server. However my normal FTP connection works fine. 
 When I try to setting up a connection with Contribute, after I enter my 
username and password, etc it initially connects fine and I can browse the 
server. But when I choose the folder where my website files are located, 
Contribute again says it cannot connect. The part that mystifies me is that 
this was all working fine at one point not too long ago!

 I've tried recreating the connection, deleting the contribute.xml file on the 
server, and all sorts of variations on the remote folder path. I'm using SFTP.  
Basically, I can now do nothing with Contribute on the site.

 Can anyone offer any insight? Are the virtual directories the problem? Or 
might it be something else? I really appreciate any help, my users are getting 
tired of not being able to edit the site and I'm tired of doing it for them :)


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