File structure question for non .Mac hosts.

Question

I am a support person for a labour union that host web sites for its locals. The technical knowledge level of these web masters are very low. A couple of them uses iWeb to design and publish their web sites. My question is, do iWeb forcibly put all files inside a sub folder instead of publishing to the root folder?
Users will be locked into their home directory after logging onto our FTP server. The index file should reside in this directory. However, the users who uses iWeb seem to always get their files published into a sub directory instead of the root folder.
Since the office I work out of is a Windows based work environment, I do not have easy access to trouble shoot iWeb software. Any help or insight would be greatly appreciated.

Answer 1

When uploading to a server, the inclusion of the file and the folder causes the problem. If they exclude the "extra" index file and upload the contents of the folder (i.e. not the folder itself) to the root folder on the server then all should be well.
If they exclude the "extra" index file and upload the contents of the folder (i.e. not the folder itself) to the root folder on the server then all should be well.
This is not correct, Roddy. (Sorry) The published Site folder that iWeb generates should be uploaded as is. You cannot open the folder and upload the contents inside individually--this will break the site structure.
The Site folder provided by the iWeb application must be uploaded as is--i.e., by dropping the entire folder into the directory. The index.html file must also be uploaded into the same directory--not excluded. Both index.html files, (inside and outside of the Site folder) must be included.