FTP publishes to nested folder, problems ensue

Hi,
I'm trying to publish my iWeb site to a domain hosted on my university's server, and have made a successful test connection to that server, but when I publish the site to that server, it ends up in a nested folder, which my school's server doesn't allow read access to for the general public. I need for iWeb to publish its pages directly into the directory I provided for the FTP path. Does anybody know how to do this?

One of the problems with the iWeb FTP is that it uploads the whole folder created by iWeb and this creates a sub directory which, in your case, you don't want.
Publish your site to a local folder and upload the contents of the folder and not the folder itself.
If you need an FTP app get the freeware Cyberduck here.....
http://cyberduck.ch/

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