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Can anyone tell me if there is a way to automatically publish a dreamweaver web site to the production server at night? THANK YOU!

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Short answer for : Dreamweaver does not include a built‑in scheduler for automatic nightly publishes, so the practical approaches are to automate the transfer outside Dreamweaver or move deployment to the server side.

A simple, reliable route (echoing 's suggestion to use external tools) is:

  • Create a small script that uploads or synchronizes your local site folder to the production server using a command‑line SFTP/FTP client that supports scripting.
  • Schedule that script to run nightly with the OS scheduler (Windows Task Scheduler or cron on macOS/Linux).
  • Test the script manually, then run a dry‑run and add logging so you can verify what changed.

For a more robust, long‑term workflow, keep the site in version control and use a server‑side deploy (a post‑receive hook or a CI job) so pushes to the repo trigger an automatic checkout to the web root. This removes the fragility of client push scripts and gives you history, rollbacks and safer deployments.

Cautions and quick tips:

  • Use SFTP or FTPS or key‑based auth; never store plaintext passwords where possible.
  • Exclude Dreamweaver temp files and local-only assets from the sync.
  • Be careful with “delete” behavior when syncing (you do not want accidental removals).
  • Add logging and an alert (email) for failures, and test restores before trusting nightly runs.

WinSCP scripting is a common Windows choice; for Git deployment see the Git documentation on receiving updates.

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You need to setup the site using dreamweaver's site manager which im assuming is using ftp(which I dont know how to setup but it should be rather simple). So you could just use a 3rd party ftp client to upload to the server.

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Thanks for responding, however I should have provided more information. I already have everything setup in the site table and can manually push the button to sync the files from local to remote servers. But what I would like is for it to do this automatically at night, say at 10:00pm each day so the files are always in sync. This seems like a very simple process that could be scheduled but I am unable to find anything. THANKS in advance.

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Im not sure dreamweaver offers this kind of functionality

I looked around and it looks like there are a couple:
rsync - opensource
Filesync - offers ftpsync also opensource i believe
robocopy ? - not sure what this does, but someone said it was rather good.

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Thank You, I will look into another method then.

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