I would like to have 2 seperate sites on one server

Question

Hi to all,
I am a graphic designer who sometimes uses iweb to create very simple sites, which have worked in the past.
I have a friend who is opening a restaurant and I want to help out by creating a web site for her in iweb.
She already has one "site" for her photography, which is a page that says under contruction on her FTP which is contained the index.html file that appears in the web file on the FTP. If I publish the restaurant site to her FTP it replaces this existing photography site's index.html file and her photography site is lost . Is it possible (and how??) to have 2 index.html files on the FTP so that 2 sites can exist together?
I really hope someone can help with this...
Thanks in advance,
Lisa

Answer 1

Assuming just one server domain, the sites can co-exist because each is in its own folder, but you can only have one index.html file at root level. This file redirect to the site which is at the top of the list if you have two sites in the same iWeb, or to the site which updated last if you are using separate computers.
The point of an index.html file is that you don't have to state it - if you have one at fred.com/index.html then just fred.com will bring it up.
So: supposing you have two sites at fred.com, one called jim and the other called mary.  Each lives in its own folder, so their respective URLs are fred.com/jim and fred.com/mary (iWeb sets things so that those URLs bounce you on to Welcome.html or Home.html or whatever your starting page is called).
Whichever way you work it, those URLs will be stable. However, if you are each uploading from separate computers, just fred.com will lead to whichever site was updated last. The only workarounds are manually to remove the index.html file at root level and stick with the longer URL in each case: or for the second site to keep a copy of the first site's index.html file and manually replace it at root level after each time they've uploaded.
In the event that your server supports subdomains, Ethmoid's suggestion is neater.