# Cannot publish site

**URL:** <https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971>\
**Category:** RapidWeaver Classic\
**Created:** [March 21, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971 "2016-03-21T21:07:55Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 7\
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**Author:** ![janeharrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@janeharrison](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/janeharrison)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 9:07pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971/1 "2016-03-21T21:07:55Z")

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Been trying to publish site for hours. Read forum and tried the newer 6.3.4 - nothing. Get a message that the server address cant be verified - did online chat with host then phone call with host - i have the right server: I was using the trial so I purchased - still nothing

protocol: SFTP  
server: [fencing.dreamhost.com](http://fencing.dreamhost.com)  
user: jimone  
password:  
path: /

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**Author:** ![MarkSealey](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/marksealey/32/22895_2.png) [@MarkSealey](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/MarkSealey)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 9:39pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971/2 "2016-03-21T21:39:02Z")

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Try leaving the **path** completely blank… no ‘/’

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**Author:** ![janeharrison](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/54ee81/32.png) [@janeharrison](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/janeharrison)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 11:22pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971/3 "2016-03-21T23:22:44Z")

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I tried that and no luck - so I manually uploaded on the host (dreamhost) ftp site nad now the files are jsut sitting there and will not upload to the internet

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**Author:** ![Rovertek](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/rovertek/32/223_2.png) [@Rovertek](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Rovertek)\
**Post date:** [March 21, 2016, 11:43pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971/4 "2016-03-21T23:43:28Z")

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Try:  
path: /public\_html

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**Author:** ![VenusRising](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/venusrising/32/2452_2.png) [@VenusRising](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/VenusRising)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 12:27am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971/5 "2016-03-22T00:27:45Z")

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don’t type any http:// or www

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**Author:** ![Turtle](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/turtle/32/1438_2.png) [@Turtle](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Turtle)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 1:13am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971/6 "2016-03-22T01:13:43Z")

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@janeharrison

Seems like DreamHost has a wonderful WIKI site for such queries by doing a simple search [I found this](http://wiki.dreamhost.com/FTP)

So you should probably try the publishing path as /home/siteusername as per the instructions on that page 🙂

Also, SFTP port is 22

so this should be your result  
protocol: SFTP  
server: [fencing.dreamhost.com:22](http://fencing.dreamhost.com:22)  
user: jimone  
password:  
path: /home/jimone

HTH  
Brad

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**Author:** ![Bioguy](https://dub1.discourse-cdn.com/flex005/user_avatar/forums.realmacsoftware.com/bioguy/32/109_2.png) [@Bioguy](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/u/Bioguy)\
**Post date:** [March 22, 2016, 3:38am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/cannot-publish-site/5971/7 "2016-03-22T03:38:10Z")

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I’ve been using Dreamhost with RW for ten years. I have some hazy memory of it not always working with SFTP. Have you tried using regular FTP settings for uploading? That’s what I currently use.

As far as settings:  
Server: “yourdomain” (do not use anything else other than the name of your domain)  
Path: “/yourdomain/desired directory” (nothing but the forward slash before the domain name)