FTP does not publish correctly to directory/path of \ (i.e. no folder name)

Question

I have never been able to get the iWeb FTP publish to work correctly, so I will try once again.
I use www.easycgi.com for hosing, the the directory/path for www.mydomain.com is / (i.e. there is not a folder name). I can verify this via Cyberduck and have confirmed it with their tect support (i.e. no folder name, just \).
If you use / for the directory/pathin in iWeb, iWeb test connection button works fine (meaning it finds that folder) and publish works fine, but the pages are published to a newly created FTP folder called www.mydomian.com on the FTP server, so to access the pages the URL in a browser is www.mydomain.com/www.mydomain.com/index...the 2nd www.mydomain.com being the folder.
If you enter a directory/path of \, iweb seems to make the folder the site name (also entered in iWeb).
As a work around, you can publish using iWeb, then in cyberduck cut and paste everything from FTP folder www.mydomain.com to FTP folder \ and it works fine...just a hassle.
Any ideas?
thanks
bob

Answer 1

The extra folder is given the name which you gave your site inside iWeb. Instead of using your url for your site name, call it Site or S or whatever.
Complete iWeb sites always have the sitefolder name in the url that appears in the browser address bar. If you want to eliminate that, you can publish to your local drive and use another ftp app to upload just the contents of the sitename folder. Or you can try forwarding www.myname.com to www.myname.com/sitename. Or you can try naming your site the same as the default folder on your server (e.g. public_html, if that is what your server uses). Or try putting just http:// in the url field.
If you eliminate the sitename folder, any RSS Subscribe buttons normally will not function. Some users have gotten RSS to work by putting just http:// in the url field.