I am on the chapter 7 in the Beginning Dreamw Mx and i have just
constructed HTML Forms. But the problem is I cannot preview the page in
the IE browser by pressing F12, even though i have configured Dreamweaver
for browser -based page preview. i have tried to solve the problem but i
couldn't.

Can anyone help me plz. i would be grateful for your help.

thanks

Aden

So, what happens when you press F12?

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when i press F12 nothing has come up except a blank page. i've also noticed the browser actually takes too long to display anything after i press F12.

How does your "Testing Server" section of the Site Definition dialog look like? What settings did you fill in?

And can you also show the details for the Local Info and Remote Info sections??

Cheers,

Imar
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this is the information about my site settings:

Testing Server
    Server Model: None
    Access: Local/Network
    Testing Server Folder: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\TheCookingPlace
    URL Prefix: http://localhost/thecookingplace/


Local info
    Site Name: TheCookingPlace
    Local Root Folder: C:\TheCookingPlace Default Images Folder: C:\TheCookingPlace\images HTTP Address: http://localhost/TheCookingPlace/
    Refresh Local File List. checked

Remote Info

    Access: Local/Network
    Remote Folder: C:\Inetpub\wwwroot\TheCookingPlace Refresh Remote File…& automatically upload files… checked

thanks Imar

Hi Aden,

Few things to check:

1. What happens when you browse to: http://localhost/thecookingplace/
Do you get the site?

2. Try changing the Server Model from None to ASP VB Script, and see if that helps.

3. What DW version are you using? Did you install the latest updates??

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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One more thing to check:

What do you see under Edit | Preferences | Preview in Browser

Are there any browsers listed there? Is one of them marked as the Default browser?

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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Hi Imar

thanks for your reply, i did try to browser many different pages that saved under 'thecookingplace'folder but nothing came up on the screen and the browser takes approximately 6 minutes before even displaying the message 'Page cannot display'.

i have changed the Server Model from None to ASP VB Script but it doesn't help.

at the moment i'm using DW version 6 but i have already updated into the version 7.0.1.

Under Edit|Preference|Browser, i see under Browser 'iexplore F12' and at the moment i am only using one browser which is the one marked Default browser.

Are you saying that when you open Internet Explorer and browse to http://localhost/TheCookingPlace, nothing comes up?

If that is the case, this is not a DW problem, but an IIS problem.

Are you sure you installed IIS correctly? Do you have a firewall or other security software blocking IIS??

Imar
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Imar Spaanjaars
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