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Asked: 2026-06-06T01:02:10+00:00

I’m fairly new to Dreamweaver and am testing the trial software. I have decent

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I’m fairly new to Dreamweaver and am testing the trial software. I have decent experience with EC2 as i have hosted a website there. I previously used Skybound.ca’s Stylizer app for connecting to my site and editing the CSS and storing it to my computer and then building the site and putting it back on server. This worked well for a long time but i ahve kinda outgrown Stylizer app. Can i ‘look’ at the hosted site on EC2 using the Dreamweaver app and edit the css as a local copy? There seems to be a twisted way of connecting to a site but it is more like edit-local-site-upload-to-remote-server type of paradigm than waht i did with Stylizer. Can anyone point out to me how i can use Dreamweaver the Stylizer way?

The second part of my question is, Dreamweaver connects to EC2 instance, provided a username and password is given. Options range from FTP, SFTP to local network. EC2 instance uses a public key file to be given while connecting using ssh or scp and there is no password involved. I changed my root account to have a password and tried to connect with Dreamweaver but couldn’t. I’m leery of doing any changes to ssh file on the instance as i am worried my mistakes will cost me all access to instance. Is there a good way i can connect Dreamweaver to the site?

Any thoughts are appreciated…

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t have experience with Stylizer, but like you said maybe it’s time to move on from that. Dreamweaver is pretty user-friendly, and I’m willing to bet you’ll be able to do more in Dreamweaver than you could with Stylizer.
    That being said, Dreamweaver apparently doesn’t use SSH key pairs, BUT there is a workaround I’ve heard about using “MindTerm” FTP Client. You’ll have to create an “FTP-SFTP bridge” or whatever it’s called. Check out this guy’s instructions on how to do it if you’re interested. Once you’ve done that, you should be able to connect with Dreamweaver. And yes, it’s a good idea to have local copies of all your .html, .css, etc. files. That way, you can test things before “going live”. And you’ll always have a second copy of a file in case you need to revert a change.

    UPDATE:

    So actually, instead of using the MindTerm method for connecting with Dreamweaver, you can experiment with “Adding a New User” to your server that does not user ssh key/pairs. I’ll explain more if you want. But check out the beginning of this page for how to add a user. And check out the response here for how to use the PasswordAuthentication yes command to “get in” to the server without ssh keys.

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