I am trying to migrate from Adobe Cloud Dreamweaver 2015 to Microsoft Visual Studio 2017 Community.
I wanted to do what I thought was the most basic operation and that is to select a local site on my computer then adding the FTP details to connect to the remote server. Unfortunately I get the error:
Could not connect to 'ec2-{IP address}' Make sure that the machine name and path are valid.
These are the exact steps I have taken.
- Open Visual Studio
- Click Open Folder
- Open the folder containing the local site files on my computer
- The site files appear on the right pane under "Solution Explorer - Folder View"
- Select "Tools > Connect To Server..."
- The "Add Server" dialog appears
- Enter the IP address of the server then the error described earlier appears.
The FTP details are correct and I tested it by connecting via the browser.