Can't Publish changes using FTP

Ok, here is the whole story! At first I published my site using mobile me but then realized that my URL was way too long and not what I wanted since I am making a business site and wanted www.businessname.com. So, I bought a domain from godaddy and then hosted my site using that account. NOW, when I try to publish changes or even republish the entire site to make changes, nothing happens! It will say that my site is now published but then when I click visit site, a message comes up saying that the mobileme page I am looking for can not be found???? But I am not using mobile me to publish anymore!!! Any idea what I need to do? Thanks!

Okay, so when you purchased your domain name from GoDaddy did you also buy a hosting account from them?
If you didn't do this, then you are not publishing using ftp at all. You are still publishing to MobileMe, but you simply need to direct your domain name to web.me.com using CNAME forwarding.
If you did purchase hosting from GoDaddy too, then perhaps rather than using the built in iWeb ftp, you should publish to a local folder and upload to your server space using Cyberduck or Transmit which you can download for free.

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delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your Home() /Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
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Hi all... I tried my best to glean answers from existing posts, but alas could not, so I am posting my blurb in hopes that someone can just point me in the right direction. Problem: Since upgrading to iWeb '09, I can't publish to either my .mac space or my other server (bluehost) without getting errors. On the .mac side, the upgrade caused my entire site to go "red" (meaning it needs to be re-published, I assume). When I hit the "publish" button, away it goes through the page creation process, then begins uploading the site (I assume). An hour or more later it comes up with this message:
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When I try publishing (different website) to an FTP folder -- the reason I upgraded to iWeb '09, and this was going to be BIG for me -- hitting the "test" button results in a "you're good to go" message (or whatever it says). All seems well. And when I hit the Publish button, the pages are promptly created and it begins uploading the site. After 10-15 minutes though, it stops, and I get a simple message saying "There was an error communicating with the FTP server. Try again later, or check with your service provider." The console.log reveals this message appearing just before the aforementioned "error" message: "Operation could not be completed. Could not connect to server "blahblah.com."
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We should start a club. I upgraded from 08 to 09 twelve days ago, on both my MacBook Pro and my brand new iMac. All my iWeb files immediately went red on both machines and stayed that way - and several pages of my website disappeared. All attempts to upload to MobileMe failed, whether I tried to upload the full site or just the changes. Sometimes I got (and still get) a Publish Error message, sometimes a 'Couldn't connect with MobileMe'. I've followed all suggestions on this discussion board and have been on the phone to Apple chat lines, who also offered suggestions that didn't solve my problem. Last week I spend fair portions of three days on the phone to AppleCare in Ireland. Very helpful, very nice, and after much experimentation, including dragging my site to different files on my iDisk, we managed to make my site live again. But the files on my desktop remained red and I still couldn't upload changes. AppleCare were going to continue to try and come up with a solution, but I haven't heard from them for a week now, and they're no longer answering my emails. Perhaps the person I was talking to is away at the moment, I don't know. What I do know is that I'm no nearer finding a solution.
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OK, from reading this thread:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=486335&tstart=0
There is a pattern: An error occurred while publishing file “/blah/blah", while file "/blah/blah" seems to be random from one person to the next, but they all share one thing and that is communication protocol.
For iWeb to be able to publish changes to .Mac, it has to:
1. identify if the file exists
2. do the following:
2a. if not exists, copy it to .Mac
2b. if exist, do some sort comparison - CRC checksum -
2b1. if checksums match, don't copy
2b2. if checksums don't match copy it to .Mac
At least I think that's what going on, I don't have .Mac so that is best I can think of. Perhaps, some Apple SW engineers can jump in here.
Now, the bad part is iWeb has to (and I'm assuming iWeb uses WebDAV):
1. go thru each file locally
2. crawl its way into .Mac (WebDAV is a slow protocol) to find the the counter part.
3. when it finds a file that matches a client side file, it has to (some how) do checksum on-the-fly across the net work (which is slow and congested)
#3 is I think where it failed, there are many factors here: 1) networks congestion 2) latency 3) protocol overhead 4) checksum calculation time etc...
iWeb eventually times out because any/all of the above.
It's nice that WebDAV can author to the host yada, yada, but it's so SLOOOOOW.
What I would do is for every publishing, I would build a files and their checksums keep it on the host (or local, must be hidden).
For subsequence publishing, I would (use a fast protocol like FTP) download this pre-built files/checksums list. Locally, do a full publishing, making checksum comparison, the result is delta changes; upload only those. Build a new files/checksums list upload that too.
What I mean to say is offload everything that is possible to local machine, bandwidth is PREMIUM!

Publish using ftp

once i publish to a folder, how do i publish it to my website using ftp? just upload the entire folder as it is and put the index.html file outside of the folder? or do i upload the folders contents into my home directory? i cant get it to work right.

You can do either.
If you upload the entire folder including the index.html file and the site folder, your site urls will be www.yourdomain.com/sitename/pagename.html.
If you just upload the contents of the site folder directly without the enclosing folder and without the outside index.html file, your site urls will be www.yourdomain.com/pagename.html (there is an index.html file within the site folder as well).
I do the former because outside of the site folder I have several other items and folders that iWeb doesn't touch that are essential to the running of my site, eg javascript resources. I can add to or change these safe in the knowledge that they won't get overwritten when iWeb republishes.
Michael
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How can I Publish to a Folder just one of the several websites I have created using iWeb?
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For iWeb, I like to do only one site per domain file. I move domain files out of the Application Support folder and place them inside project or client folders, or in DropBox. Once you duplicate a domain file and begin customizing it, it will load and behave as a separate project/site.
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