DREAMWEAVER CS3
User Guide
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When you check a file in to a Contribute site, Dreamweaver makes a backup copy of the previous checked-in version
of the file in the _baks folder and adds your user name and a date stamp to a Design Notes file.
See also
“Checking in and checking out files” on page 91
Contribute file and folder permissions on the server
Contribute provides a way to manage file and folder permissions for each user role you define; however, Contribute
doesn’t provide a way to manage the underlying read and write permissions assigned to files and folders by the server.
In Dreamweaver, you can manage those permissions directly on the server.
If a Contribute user doesn’t have read access on the server to a dependent file, such as an image displayed in a page,
the contents of the dependent file don’t appear in the Contribute window. For example, if a user doesn’t have read
access to an images folder, the images in that folder appear as broken image icons in Contribute. Similarly,
Dreamweaver templates are stored in a subfolder of the site’s root folder, so if a Contribute user doesn’t have read
access to the root folder, they can’t use templates in that site unless you copy the templates to an appropriate folder.
When you set up a Dreamweaver site, you must give users read access on the server to the /_mm folder (the _mm
subfolder of the root folder), the /Templates folder, and all of the folders containing assets that they will need to use.
If, for security reasons, you can’t give users read access to the /Templates folder, you can still enable Contribute users
to access templates inign a sroot folder access.
For more information about Contribute permissions, see
Administering Contribute
in Contribute Help.
Contribute special files
Contribute uses a variety of special files that aren’t intended to be viewed by visitors to your site:
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The shared settings file, which has an obfuscated filename with a CSI extension, appears in a folder named _mm
in the root folder of the site, and contains information that Contribute uses to manage the site
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Older versions of files, in folders named _baks
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Temporary versions of pages, so that users can preview changes
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Temporary lock files, indicating that a given page is being edited or previewed
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Design Notes files containing metadata about the site’s pages
In general, you shouldn’t edit any of these Contribute special files using Dreamweaver; Dreamweaver manages them
automatically.
If you don’t want these Contribute special files to appear on your publicly accessible server, you can set up a staging
server where Contribute users work on pages. Then periodically copy those web pages from the staging server to a
production server that’s on the web. If you take this staging-server approach, copy only web pages to the production
server, not any of the above-listed Contribute special files. In particular, don’t copy the _mm and _baks folders to the
production server.
Note:
For information about setting up a server to prevent visitors from seeing files in folders that begin with an under-
score, see “Website security” in Contribute Help.
Occasionally you might need to manually delete Contribute special files. For example, there might be circumstances
in which Contribute fails to delete temporary preview pages when the user is finished previewing; in that case, you
would have to manually delete those temporary pages. Temporary preview pages have filenames that begin with TMP.
September 4, 2007
