Help, Not able to publish since moving from Florida to Vietnam.

Question

I receive a message at the end of a very long wait during the publishing phase that there was a publishing error and I should try later. This has only happened since moving from USA to Vietnam. Any ideas? Thank you.

Answer 1

Unfortunately, this "Publish Error" problem is all too common whenever there is a change in your iWeb publishing environment. This can be a result of Apple updating iWeb or MobileMe (as happened a couple of months ago with MobileMe), it can occur when you change ISPs, or it can happen when you upgrade your Mac OS or get a new computer. I'm going through it right now because I migrated (i.e., copied my Domain file) over to my new Mac mini for my iWeb work, and have since been unable to publish to my MobileMe account.
Apple Support provides no guidance as to why this happens or what to do about it. It's clearly a software/communications problem that's related to uploading files from your client (iWeb) to the server (MobileMe). The only advice they've given me when I call them is to completely rebuild the Website, which in my case would mean redoing the several hundred Web pages that are part of my site. Apple's inability to take the issue seriously is a sure sign that they don't consider iWeb/MobileMe a serious Web publishing medium, that it is only intended for small sites, hobby stuff, photo galleries and the like.
The only real solution is to create a new Website in iWeb, and to gradually move your Web pages to the new site and to Publish to MobileMe a few pages at a time. If you encounter a publish error again, you can at least isolate the problematic Web page and, if necessary, redo that page to get it to publish correctly. This solution has always worked for me, though it is very tedious and time-consuming.
It's very frustrating that Apple is unable or unwilling to improve the publishing capability of iWeb/MobileMe, and to make it more robust. It's otherwise a powerful publishing environment.