Ftp connection: "Can not find the catalog/path"

Question

I have had a Webserver operating on my old IBook.
I had it opened through my firewall, and everything worked.
Now I try to connect to the same iBook, but with an IP-adress that comes from turning on
Internet sharing on the Ethernet port of my iMac. I try to connect in iWeb, ftp server test.
But the iMac I do things on, cannot find the catalog, it says. (At least the ftp login seems to work.)
I have things in the path /Library/Webserver/Documents, and started my 3rd
home page in the subdirectory iMe, which catalog I created inside the Documents folder.
Thankful for all tips!
Best Regards,
/Peter K, Sweden

Answer 1

As per usual, do not compond problems, mix them and then cry for help. And iWeb is not involved, yet.
Start at the beginning.
Set up your network and make it work. Period.
On the remote computer where you want to have access, and publish your website, enable Remote login.
Then test it and find out where you end up.
There you create a folder where you want to publish your pages.
Put a sampe html file in that folder.
In the /Library/Webserver/Documents folder on that remote computer you create a symlink to that folder.
Open your browser and type the URL to the file.
TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST TEST
UNTIL IT WORKS.
If you do not understand it, search the interwebs or find a forum that deals with it.
Then, when it works, and only then, you may open iWeb.
To publish to that remote folder you created earlier, choose this setting :
The directory path is determined earlier when you tested the connection.
You can also use filesharing.
Enable it on the remote computer and then mount the remote disk on your desktop.
Choose publish to folder in iWeb.
iWeb doesn't care.