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How do you edit RAP site on dreamweaver?

by ankur sharma
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This place is filled with so many genius people, i am sure someone will help me out on this. I need to edit my rap site/pages on dreamweaver. Now when i try to edit salespage, i do not see any images. I only see text/table.

I am succesfully connected to server and here are some of images of my dreamweaver.



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  • Profile picture of the author David V
    I've only bumped in RAP once or twice, but it looks like your not running it in a local server. You also need to define the site in DW. Just opening the pages without doing this, will not give you the result you want.
    It's written in php and you need to run it on a local server. I don't know if rap uses zend encoding, but if it does you need to have zend installed in the local server as well.
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  • Profile picture of the author ankur sharma
    what should i do then? Should i ditch dreamweaver for some other editor? I also got editor addon for rap.But i have seen for larger formatting work, online editors are not good.

    Thanks
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    • Profile picture of the author David V
      Setting up a local server is very easy. Google XAMPP or WAMPSERVER. Grab a self installer version (not zip). Once installed place your rap in the root folder (htacces for xampp, and www for wampserver) Edit your config file (you'll likely need to create a database in phpadmin on the local server.
      Basically you install it similar to the way you would on a live server. When that's done, open DW, and "define" a site. Google it you'll find a ton of tuts on that. If it's setup right, your rap will run just the way it would live.
      If your just trying to change images and the look, you could just open the various files in a plain text editor, or use DW in code mode, not WYSIWYG. Depends on your coding skills.
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  • Profile picture of the author ankur sharma
    My biggest worry is, if i install this whole stuff on local server, then it make me little nervous. Because we install rap on our server. So, you are saying i should install rap on my local server here and then when everything work fine. I should transfer all the folders into my main hosting account. Then, install rap again.

    By the way, with this way, i will be able to see like paypal buy now button and other stuff which is right now missing as they use php tokens, i guess.

    Thanks
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  • Profile picture of the author BrianMcLeod
    There's two sets of templates that come with RAP inside the "product" folder you use to define and sell each RAP product:

    Templates and Templates2

    Templates is for customizing the header and footer file and allowing RAP to include the various content/pages in between.

    Templates2 is for defining your own header/footer on EVERY page.

    Where things are wonky with both is that the images/css/etc is up one directory from where the templates are. It's looking for files at ../whatever instead of in the directory where your current files are.

    My simple way of dealing with this is to create images/css/etc folders inside the templates folder itself, then duplicate those one directory up.

    When the templates are running in RAP, they'll be pulling the images, etc from the Product folder. When I'm working on them, they'll be pulling identical images, etc from within the template folder.

    Does that make any sense? I don't have time to be more careful in this reply at the moment.

    Best,

    Brian
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