Archiving, Backing Up iWeb websites

How can one back up a website developed with iWeb to a CD? I doubt that the html code is the native code for an iWeb website. Yet, that appears to be the only way one can save a website to a file so it could then be copied to a CD.

You would back up the file created by iWeb.
The Domain.sites folder found in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder.
If it is too large for CD then use a DVD to back it up.

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  • Archive an existing iWeb website?

    What's the best way to take an existing iWeb-created website & save *the entire thing* for offline viewing?
    Background: I'm about to restructure my family website, but my wife wants me to save "a copy" of the current website for posterity. I've tried some of the downloadable site extractors (Site Sucker, Web Devil, CocoaWget) but haven't had luck yet. It seems there's something about the iWeb-generated site that doesn't allow them to work right.
    Thanks in advance!

    If you want to archive/save the file that iWeb uses to create the site you must backup/archive the Domain.sites2 file that resides in your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. That package is the key item if you want to edit/publish at a later date.
    If you only want to save the published files the while in iWeb click on the site icon at the top of the left hand pane. In the window select Publish to a Folder.
    Click to view full size
    Publish the site to a folder and burn the contents of that folder to a CD. However, there are some features of the site that will not work. They are:
    Features Unavailable When Publishing to a Non-Mac Server:
    ◼ Password protection
    ◼ Blog and photo comments
    ◼ Blog search
    ◼ Hit counter
    ◼ Enhanced slideshows
    OT

  • Can you export a published iweb website back into iweb?

    I have created my own iweb website which I uploaded to my own domain using transmit. Since creating the page, I had a had drive die on me that I can't access and don't have my site in iweb to edit as I have resorted to a back up made just before I made the site. So I want to know if I can access the site from Transmit and put it back into iweb for editing the site?
    This is my first site I have made entirely on my own and have been learning as I go. If I can't access the site as I made it, I may try accessing the files from Transmit one by one to re-make the pages.
    Any help on this will me very much appreciated.
    This is my site for anyone who wants to see:
    http://jemgirl.com
    Powerbook   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  
    Powerbook   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

    Sure, you could syncronize in the opposite direction to get your html files and images, etc back on your Mac. But you will have to drag and drop, copy and paste to get that content back into iWeb.
    Your iWeb data is stored, not in your actual html files, but in a file called Domain.sites which is stored in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. If you want to work on your site on another computer, copy this file to a thumb drive to move it around.
    You should backup this file whenever you make big changes to your site, because if it gets lost or damaged, you will have to start all over. Sadly, many many people learn this the hard way. Unfortunately, looks like you have too.
    I have an Automator app on my site that will help you backup your Domain file(s). Click here to download it or visit http://iweb.varkgirl.com for more info. The app will make a .zip file of your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and save it to a location of your choosing.
    Then check out Mozy for an online place to store your backups - I just found this and it seems great. They just recently released a Mac friendly version of their app - it automates the upload and encryption. You select the files you want to backup and it does the rest. You can set it to upload automatically after so many minutes of inactivity or once a day. It does it all in the background so you don't have to worry about it! 2GB of storage are free - plenty of room for most people's iWeb Domain.sites backups!

  • How do i get hosted website files back into iWeb after they were lost off iWeb?

    Lost all website files from my iWeb program.  Possible I updated a newer non compatible iWeb version?  At any rate........have website files back on my desktop and have no idea how to get them back into iWeb so I can modify.  Any help will be greatly appreciated!

    You can't.  iWeb has no import capability.  Search your hard drive for a file named Domian.sites2.  It normally resides in your Users/Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder. If you use Time Machine you can go back in it to find the latest copy of that file.
    However,
    NOTE: In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
    If you can't find it you'll have to start a new website.  You can open the files from the website in your browser and copy/drag photos from the existing website pages into a new or blank iWeb page.  Text should be selected and copied and then pastes into the new webpage.  No need to add a text box first.
    OT

  • Moving website from published folders back to iWeb

    I am currently working on a number of websites however when I went to publish one website to .mac it has put other websites in to a published folder. How do I move the works in progress websites from the published folders back to iWeb to continue working on them??

    Hi,
    unfortunately there is no way to get html files (published files/pages) back into iWeb to edit them. To be edited in iWeb a site needs to be in the domain file (where iWeb stores its data).
    http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWebRetrieveWebsite.html
    To manage more than one website they all need to be in the same domain file (showing up in iWeb at the same time) or you need have multiple domain files (not showing up all at the same time). You can't publish to folder, delete the site from iWeb, make a new one and get the one you deleted and published to a folder back in.
    http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWebMultiplewebsites.html
    Regards,
    Cédric

  • How do I move my iWeb website to a new machine?

    Greets all,
    I am currently using a buddies MBP while I'm away from home (deployed to Baghdad) lucky Me Anyway, he just upgraded his to Leopard and iLife '08. I have had a little free time lately and decided to play with iWeb...I like it. So, I will most likely buy it and upgrade when I get home.
    I have spend a little time creating the family website, but then I realized I may not be able to take the info home with me. I found another post that said there was the "domain" file under HD/Users/your user name/Library/Application Support/iWeb. If I take that file home with me, can I just put it in the same place on my machine and have it all work? Without redoing everything.
    Thanks in advance.

    mptalent,
    I'm sorry I don't know how to merge the files but yan keep them both on your computer in separated folders or named differently.
    Just double click on the one or on the other to open the one you want to edit.
    As far as I know there's only one person on this forum that knows how to merge them and that's not me...
    originalgoast,
    I don't know why time machine didn't back it up. But what I know for sure is that it should back it up...
    If you have your files on .Mac (the published ones which are .html) then there's no way to get them back into iWeb again. The only way would then be to rebuild the website and copy its content from the web published site textfield by textfield (selecting all and copy and paste turns out in a mess)
    Cmg9,
    Search for the Domain file in the Time Machine backup, it has to be there somewhere... You might also read the answer I gave to originalgoast
    As QuickTimeKirk told previously in this post that's the location where it's stored usually, search Time Machine backup:
    The only way to get iWeb pages back to iWeb and edit those pages is to have the Domain.sites2 file where iWeb stores its files. To find that file go to
    User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites2
    If you can’t find it here search for it with spotlight. Note that the extension .sites (iWeb 1.0) or .sites2 (iWeb 2.0) may be hidden, also search for Domain only. To see if a Domain file is iWeb ’06 or iWeb ’08 select the file press Command(Apple)+i under "Name & Extension" you will find that it is .sites or .sites2.
    To get the site showing up in iWeb just open the Domain.sites file by double clicking on it and your sites and pages will show up on the left side in the iWeb page browser.
    Regards,
    Cédric

  • Is it possible to get published to folder files back into iweb?

    Hello,
    I have created a website in iweb and published it to a folder and to my .mac account. I have recently closed down my .mac account so I could reopen one with my new business name. In the meantime I have upgraded to Leopard which deleted my iweb application.I have got another copy of iweb but now when I open iweb it does not automatically open my website up. Does anyone know if it is possible to open my old website which I have Published to a folder in iweb so I can publish it to my new .mac site?
    If i click on the html files in the folder it runs like the website but from that folder only. All the work is there I just can't find out how to get it back on the net.
    Please help so I don't have to spend weeks re entering all the files back into iweb one by one!
    Thanks

    You can upload your website files by drag and drop to Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites to get your website up and running.
    To be able to publish changes you will have to do a search for the original domain.sites2 file and drop this into Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb.
    If you can't find it, then rebuilding is your only option. This is frustrating but doesn't take too long if you copy and paste all your text, images etc from the published files to your new iWeb pages.

  • HELP!  I must go back to iWeb 1.2 from iWeb 2.0.1

    The latest version of iWeb doesn't work for me and I must go back. I know how to uninstall and reinstall my previous iWeb (I guess that means I have to go back to iLife 6.0 totally) but I do not know if there is a way to get my website back to the iWeb 1.2 without doing it from scratch (since it is currently converted to iWeb 2.0.1) and I do not have an old backup.
    Has anyone been able to successfully convert back to iWeb 1.2?
    If I don't convert, I am unable to update one of my websites that uses Dreamweaver 8 as the primary FTP editor but incorporates iWeb photo pages with the old iweb format that works great. The new format of iweb is totally incompatible and I can not use my photos with Dreamweaver.
    ( go to http://kanreikai.com and check out the photo pages. They were all made with iWeb 1.2, but the rest of the site is made with Dreamweaver). When displaying the new photo pages from iWeb 2.0.1 in Dreamweaver 8, there are no photos and Dreamweaver won't work with it. All help is appreciated. I really need to get back to the old way of doing it. I could even have sound in my slide show which I can't anymore with iWeb 2.0.1)
    Thanks,

    To give more explanation of the main problem for me, it is this.
    Under the previous version of iweb (iLife 6.0) I cold open any of my photo pages on my idisk (say photo-1.html, located in the Home_Page directory) into a browser and all pictures would display fine and all photo links and slideshow work fine. This is opening directly from my idisk in my .mac account.
    Under the latest version of iweb (2.0.1+) if I open a photo page from the idisk with a browser I get the page with no photos and no slideshow. (although the link for slideshow is there).
    If I go to my webpage directly with my browser, the photos and slide show work fine, but I cannot run them directly from my idisk like I could before. This is important to me because the photo-1.html and photo-1_files folders previously worked together (even in Dreamweaver) but now they do not.
    Of course there are now other directories, like rss.js that calls up the photos, but since that folder and slideshow.html etc are all still located in the current directory for running the browser they should still work but they do not. NO photos or slideshow when run from the idisk. Only works directly from the website. This loss of capability is unacceptable to me because I need the photos to work directly from my idisk.

  • At Photo Gallery is there a button to transport viewer back to my website?

    I don't yet have iLife '08 but my question is:
    RE: Photo Gallery
    I am assuming that in my iWeb website I must place URLs of each photo page that I make.
    Question:
    Once the person is there at the Photo Gallery, is there a button that can get him BACK to my
    Website???????
    — Lorna in Southern California

    In iWeb '08 you select the template "My Albums". When you drop an album of photos onto this page, a new page is created with the photos on it, a slideshow option and button to return to the main albums page. You don't have to create any links.

  • Saving or backing up iweb work

    Looking for some help on saving/backing up iweb work. I understand the all information is saved to the domain file under user/library/application support/iweb and that altering that file is not good. But I would like to know a few things that I can't seem to find answers to
    1) if I save my web page to a folder will it be automatically erased from iweb
    a) if not can I save individual sites (within iweb) to folders
    b) then how do a post from those folders
    c) if I then want to change the site do I need to delete that folder and
    create a new one
    d) my whole objective here is to try and play around with the html
    language without harming the website I have already created
    e) dont know what i am doing and thus would like to be able to revert
    back to what is currently saved on iweb
    2) confused on how to back up my domain file
    a) if I accidentally delete my page from iweb is there a way that I can put
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    b) I see people say make a back up to .mac but how does one go about
    doing that and then how do you retrieve the domain file back to your
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    Thanks for any help you may be able to provide.
    Jeremy

    Jeremy,
    1) if I save my web page to a folder will it be automatically erased from iweb
    I assume you mean Publish to a folder. If so, then no, your saved iWeb work (your "domain" file) will not be erased when you publish to a folder or publish to the web. If you delete the domain file your unpublished work will be erased (but not your published site). If while working with the iWeb application you delete pages then those pages will be deleted from your domain file and if you publish to the web, those deleted pages will be deleted from your server.
    If you publish to folders on your hard drive, those sites in those folders are completely seperate from iWeb. You could publish 20 different sites to 20 different folders on your computer and they would all be seperate from each other as well as seperate from iWeb. So you could go in and play around with the html and have no effect on your unpublished work in your "domain" file.
    2. confused on how to back up my domain file
    Your domain file is just like any other file on your mac. To back it up just duplicate it from the finder file menu and move the duplicate to safe keeping (on a CD, flash drive, external hard drive, etc.) If you accidentally deleted the domain file all you have to do is move your back up copy on to the computer and double click on it to start iWeb. After that initial procedure iWeb will remember that that is the domain file to work from.
    ps: back up your domain file frequently and keep it safe.
    Good luck,
    Sincerely, David Phelps <URL deleted from sig by host>
    "I may receive some form of compensation, financial or otherwise, from my recommendation or link."
    ibook & imac   Mac OS X (10.4.9)  

  • Don't know how to get my iWeb websites to work in Mavericks. Need help!

    Trying to put my iWeb websites back on all my user accounts in their iweb folders from dvds' since i upgraded to mavericks. iweb keeps trying to open a brand new iWeb website. I thought if I just put them back in their iweb folders under each user account like I did on snow leopard they would just load when I clicked on the iweb icon but they do not. Please help!

    To open your domain file in Lion or Mountain Lion or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
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    OT

  • Visitors can't subscribe to my iWeb website blog. All ideas are welcome.

    Hello, good people. OK. I've figured out the PDF issue. Thanks. Visitors to my iWeb website, nancysolomon.net, cannot subscribe to my blog. It's not that what I have to say is so important, but I would like to offer that option. Because they can't subscribe, I've removed the button for now. I have to get this puppy launched. My target is this Tuesday. I can add the subscribe button later -- if I can ever get it to work. When people try to subscribe, they are sent to my home page. I looked up the issue in Help, but I can't understand the page. I'm going to the Apple store AGAIN tomorrow -- I have one other tweak I need help with. As lovely as they are there, they were unable to help me with the RSS subscription issue last week. I publish to MobileMe, but it's forwarded to or by register.com. One of the Apple guys told me to have register.com remove the URL mask, but that didn't help. In fact, it created a different problem. The mask is back on. It may be that people can't subscribe to my blog. I can live with that. However, your observations and advice are appreciated.

    Well, the commas and spaces are not meant to be taken literally, but are meant to represent what you might find on your host's website under the DNS settings (Domain Name System).  Every host is different so the way in which you set up the CNAME forwarding will also be different, but it is just meant to be an example.
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  • How do I back up iWeb on a different drive?

    It occurred to me that I need to back up iWeb and my website on a different drive. Does anyone know how I should do this? I'm not sure where all the necessary files are kept.

    Hi Rick, I just noticed on your site it shows your
    domain.com on every page
    I haven't seen this before.
    Did you rename all your pages index.html and then
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    Just curious as I only did it for my first page ????
    If you mean the fact that each page says rickpatrickphotography.com, I'm not sure how this happened. Until you pointed it out I hadn't noticed the fact, and it had not been an issue. When you refer to dragging their stuff above are you talking ftp?
    Rick Patrick
    http://rickpatrickphotography.com

  • Using Flux with iWeb Websites

    I don't have Flux but have been considering it to replace iWeb.  Can anyone answere these questions?
    Can I use iWeb and Flux together? For instance, If I publish an iWeb website to a folder and then import it into Flux, do some editing and then publish from Flux to another folder, will the website still work as before?
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    To bad you can't go back and forth. I need to give you a little background before I can ask my next question.
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    Just reading about Flux sounds like I could build the major parts of the website using the WYSIWG features but continue putting in the code that I know how to do now. Then as I got more familiar with Flux I could get more into coding if I chose to, but I wouldn't really need to if I didn't want to.
    Roddy you say Flux is not the best choice. What do you recommend as better choices given what I want to do? 
    Old Toad do you have any recommendations?
    Thanks for your help. I appreciate your guidance.
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  • Recovering iweb website from .mac

    I recently had my laptop stolen and need to rebuild the website on a new mac. I see in my .mac idisk that there are images of my website. Can they someone be dragged back into iweb or am I stuck recreating my web site?

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