Dreamweaver, Uploading Files

When I first started using Macromedia's Dreamweaver to upload my files to my old website at a FREE Web Host, all my CGI (perl) scripts did not work.

ASCII or Binary

Before long I paid some close attention to how these scripts were being uploaded, as the first symptoms of script files not working is that they were uploaded in Binary mode instead of ASCII.

Sure enough, the site ftp log of Dreamweaver was reporting that these perl scripts were being uploaded in Binary by default.

Setting filename extension to be uploaded in ASCII

You won't find (at least I didn't) the solution easily using the Help files in Dreamweaver but here's how you solve the problem:

Search your Dreamweaver directory (folder) for the filenamed FTPExtensionMap.txt and use Notepad to add, edit the files .cgi and .pl to be uploaded as ASCII and the next time you upload your website these files will be uploaded in the correct mode.

Check other files too...

You may also want to check the upload mode for other text files such as .txt, .php, etc. while you're at it.