Thanks Nick for the below suggestion it works great.<br><br>John<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 8, 2012 at 8:11 AM, Nicholas Young <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:njyoung@ncsu.edu">njyoung@ncsu.edu</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">John,</font></font><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">If your user is going to create pages in Dreamweaver, then just have him upload the files into a subfolder of the Drupal root directory...and they will load completely independent of Drupal.</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">IE:</font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Drupal Directory == /foo/bar/htdocs/mydrupalsite</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">Drupal URL == <a href="http://blah.com/mydrupalsite" target="_blank">blah.com/mydrupalsite</a></font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">User's DW files directory == /foo/bar/htdocs/mydrupalsite/dwsite</font></font></div>
<div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">User's DW URL == <a href="http://blah.com/mydrupalsite/dwsite" target="_blank">blah.com/mydrupalsite/dwsite</a></font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
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<div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">His pages will not be affected by Drupal at all. You just have to be careful when upgrading/updating that you leave his folder structure intact. </font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br>
</font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif">With this method, you don't have to do any htaccess redirects or anything like that.</font></font></div><div><font><font face="tahoma,sans-serif"><br></font></font></div>
<div><font face="'courier new', monospace">...........................................<br></font><b><font face="'courier new', monospace"><font color="#666666">Nick Young</font></font></b><font face="'courier new', monospace"><font color="#999999"><font color="#009900"><br>
</font><font color="#666666">Outreach, Communications & Consulting<br>Office of Information Technology<br>North Carolina State University<br>Box 7109, Raleigh 27695<br>Ph. <a href="tel:919.513.2716" value="+19195132716" target="_blank">919.513.2716</a> | E-Mail: </font><a href="mailto:njyoung@ncsu.edu" target="_blank">njyoung@ncsu.edu</a><br>
<font color="#666666">Web:</font> <a href="http://oitdesign.ncsu.edu" target="_blank">oitdesign.ncsu.edu</a></font></font><div><font face="'courier new', monospace"><font color="#666666">Where Am I?</font> <a href="http://go.ncsu.edu/map?njyoung" target="_blank"><font color="#3333ff">go.ncsu.edu/map?njyoung</font></a></font><div>
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