Iweb 08 Domain publishing

I currently have iweb 06 and when I published through 06 it gave me the crazy URL. I copied the URL and then went to godaddy and had them forward my URL I had registered with them to the crazy iweb URL. It works like a charm. Here's my problem... I am helping a friend set up his website with iweb 08 and set up his personal URL as (www.johndoe.us). He regitered (www.johndoe.us) with godaddy. When we published his site and then clicked the "visit site" button we were sent to the godaddy hold page for the domain (www.johndoe.us). How can I get godaddy to forward to his site if I can't tell exactly where the site was published to? iweb took us to (www.johndoe.us) when we clicked "visit site" and since the site doesn't appear how can I tell where the site was actually published? Thanks so much- jed1

set up his personal URL as (www.johndoe.us).
If you are going to use ordinary forwarding, where you just give Godaddy the long url for your .Mac site, you should undo whatever you did in .Mac Account Settings > Personal Domain. That is only for when you use the CNAME method of pointing to your .Mac site.

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Restoring iWeb /domain from Published Folders

Had a lightning strike and fried both my internal harddrive and my backup drive. Still 'might' be able to recover data from the external, but I'm looking for a work-around just in case.
Is there a way in iWeb (or using a 3rd party app) to convert published pages/folders back into something that iWeb can work with? I've read some older posts and it appears not, but thought maybe someone may have discovered a trick recently. Remaking them manually will be difficult, since the pages I created have many template modifications.
If anyone has any ideas, I'd be glad to hear them. If not I may give up on iWeb altogether, and switch over to Dreamweaver permanently.

cwbishop wrote:
Had a lightning strike and fried both my internal harddrive and my backup drive.
Welcome to the discussions. A good reason to have iWeb Domain file backups offsite and/or on DVDs.
cwbishop wrote:
Is there a way in iWeb (or using a 3rd party app) to convert published pages/folders back into something that iWeb can work with? I've read some older posts and it appears not, but thought maybe someone may have discovered a trick recently.
It's not possible in iWeb and it's hard to imagine someone ever coming up with a 3rd party app to do that. You've probably already seen section 2.3 of this FAQ page which gives some tips on how to use published files, graphics, photos, etc., to help rebuild the site from scratch:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebBackupretrieve.html

Can't open file "~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites"

I was working on iWeb today, doing the usual adding pictures, and gave a few pages some color, and a few pictures here and there.
I restart my computer, because as usual, I almost have no memory left. When the computer is running again, I opened iWeb, and I get this odd message:
Can't open file "~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites"
Why is this here? I didn't do anything weird to trigger such message. The site was working perfectly fine! I tried taking the domain file to the desktop, then opening it once iWeb launches from there, and same message appears. I put it back to its place, and tried putting the iWeb plist on the desktop, and same deal!
Everything is back in its place, I haven't changed or triggered anything to deserve this. I ran Onyx, full optimization update. I restarted computer, and conducted a full disk permission repairs. Only 1 error found out of another app.
My computer is healthy, my programs are running fine. What is going on? Does anyone know how I can fix this?

Hi
Whaow 3.1GB. I'm sure iWeb has problems with that. I have the same problem with my iWeb. I have about 100 BLOG pages with a lot of pictures. Although iWeb scales the pictures when publishing (good!) it does not scale them when they are stored in the domains file/dir (bad!) So if you have an 8MP camera, this adds up after a while.
You can open the comains file and try to figure out what causes the trouble. (Right click/CTRL click, open content) sort on size to see if you have some extremely large stuff in there (Movies???) Take them out and try to make them smaller.
Good luck!!
Walter

HELP! can't find my iweb domain file anymore

tried to back up my iweb domain file. located a file called 'domain' (in the library--> application support--> iweb folder) and opened it to check the contents (it seemed too light). it was the wrong file, an empty one not the domain i have been using.
when i migrated to this machine, i must have renamed my good old domain file, put it somewhere and set iweb to run with it.
the problem is now that i accidently opened the wrong domain file, iweb is set to run with this empty domain file. i.e. all my pages and sites appear gone.
i have no idea where my real domain file is.
"spotlight" or "file-->find" are no help whatsoever in locating it (heck, they could not even locate the other 'domain' file... does spotlight not search in the library area of the HD?? seems really lame). it must be somewhere. it was just here a second ago. it's not in the trash either (which i have not emptied for a while).
any help?

hm, i tried Cmd-Shift-C and typing "sites2" in the search field.
searching 'this mac' and 'file name' or 'contents' turns up nothing.
i tried typing 'domain' in the search field also.
also tried to search by 'kind' typing in 'iweb domain'. turns up nothing.
not even the domain file which i know is there (the wrong one, in the library --> iweb folder) and is called 'domain.' and which get info tells me is of the kind 'iweb domain'. ireonically, only its alias comes up (which is not in hte library folder).
as for spotlight, it only searches 14 categories of files, and you cannot add any .
is it just me or is something wrong here? if you search for a file that is clearly there, but search does not turn it up, wouldnt it follow that the search function is no good?
i also tried searching as 'contents' a phrase which i know is in on one of the pages in the domain. but no luck either.
i have not deleted the domain file. i am positive about that. i just opened a different/wrong domain file. that in itself should not delete, damage or hide my domain. its just misplaced. the frustrating thing is of course that the sites are still all there published online! but i cannot change or update them without the domain file... (of course i have a backup from a few weeks ago, but would be nice not to have to start from that again...)
any more suggestions on more effective searches? e.g. i know that the 'kind' is called 'iweb domain'. any search program that could do anything with that?
thanks for the cmd-shift-c hint btw. will come in handy in other ways im sure.

Using a site in iWeb to publish to an external server - problems with RSS

Hi!
I have a rather odd problem. I have a .Mac account, but I also work for a non-profit organization that has asked me to handle their website. I would like to use iWeb to do that and am attempting to publish the site to an external server. However, I also want to use iWeb to publish my own personal account pages to .Mac.
I have the site up and running, and most everything works on it except the RSS feed. I typed the url into the Publish to Server dialogue, but it has been to no avail. I wonder if it has to do with the fact that I am not publishing ALL of my sites to this server, just one of the sites. (When I invoke the Publish to Server command, it creates a master index and folders for each of the sites. Then, I have been discarding all of them except for the folder of the site I want to publish, which I have to name "public_html" to conform with our domain provider's requirements. This works great, except the RSS feed is broken when I do this.
I know I can use a seperate log-in account and re-make the entire webpage there, but I consider that to be a last resort and I am looking for a better method than this.
Any suggestions? The site is http://www.oatag.org
Thanks,
Steve
MacBook 2gHz Core Duo Mac OS X (10.4.2) 1 GB RAM, Superdrive, 100 Gig HD

Then, I have been
discarding all of them except for the folder of the
site I want to publish, which I have to name
"public_html" to conform with our domain provider's
requirements. This works great, except the RSS feed
is broken when I do this.
When you break the site structure by changing names of folders you also break the link for the RSS feed.
I find it hard to believe you are really required to change the name of the folder like that. Instead you should be inserting into the folder called public_html the following two things: the folder published by iWeb which has the same name as your site does inside iWeb, plus the index html file published alongside it. To make sure that this index.html file actually points to the site you are uploading, make sure this site is at the top of the list inside iWeb before publishing.

Using iWeb to publish to two sites separately

Here's my situation: I purchased a Family Pack .mac so I get 5 sites. I will use one for my own use, my wife will use one, and my son will use one.
We would like to use one of the two remaining accounts primarily to put up a website for a friend of ours who is working as a missionary in Africa.
So on my wife's computer, we want to use iWeb to build two sites, publish one in one .mac account and publish the other in another .mac account.
So far iWeb keeps publishing them in the same account.
Any ideas?

The easiest thing for you to do would be to create a separate account on your wife's computer for this additional .Mac account that you wish to publish to. You can add this System account under System Preferences>Accounts. Then log into this account and add the additional .Mac information into the System Preferences there. Launch iWeb and create your page. When you publish, it will be published using the extra .Mac account.
This way...no juggling of Domain files. No switching back and forth of .Mac account information. Just log into the separate account to edit and publish this separate website on this .Mac account. Then your wife can log back into her own account to edit her own websites. Easy.

Using iWeb to publish to different services

I have iLife 2008, and I also use a dot-Mac account.
I want to publish a handful of different web-sites for different organizations.
One organization would use the dot-Mac account. Another uses a separate web server that has nothing to do with dot-Mac.
There may be a third organization, a local Mac user group, which may need a web-site. If so, it would be published to their own dot-Mac account.
Is it possible to publish different iWeb projects to different places? If so, how is it done?

Walt:
You may want to have a different iWeb Domain.sites2 file for each of those sites to make managing, editing and publishing easier. I use iWebSites to manage multiple sites.. It lets me create multiple sites and multiple domain files.
If you have multiple sites in one domain file here's the workflow I used to split them into individual site files with iWebSites. Be sure to make a backup copy of your original Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.
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IWeb not publishing movies

Hey there. I'm new to these forums, so go easy on me. I searched the forums for this topic and didn't find anything related to my problem. Recently, I started using iWeb to build a site, and I had a huge problem, and that problem is that iWeb only publishes some of my movies. Now, the format I've been using is the Apple TV settings in Final Cut Express. I realize that iWeb likes small files for uploading. But, with the formats and files sizes being about the same (150-200 megs) why is this happening? Initially, what I did was delete the movies page, create a new one, and sometimes this would work, but not all the time. That, I think is what is most frustrating - The fact that there is this randomness in troubleshooting. I've brought up the overlay and examined my assets in relation to each other, but I can't see any conflict there. I really don't want to export from Final Cut or Quicktime in a web format, as there is a such a huge loss in quality, obviously. Does anyone know of a workaround to keep these movies in a higher quality and have them be compatible with iWeb. By the way, my iDisk is empty, so that's not the issue either. Thanks in advance for the help.

deadpixel123 wrote:
Does anyone know of a workaround to keep these movies in a higher quality and have them be compatible with iWeb.
Welcome to the discussions. You could try importing your movies into iMovie and then publishing to MobileMe Gallery:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/movies/#mobileme
Then you can pseudo embed your Gallery movie into your iWeb site — here's a video tutorial briefly showing that about half-way through:
http://www.apple.com/findouthow/web/iweb08.html#tutorial=livecontent
...Visitors will have a full-screen option to view your movies and an advantage for you is that the movies are no longer in iWeb's Domain file — so site re-publishing times are shorter. There's more about MobileMe Gallery here:
http://www.apple.com/mobileme/features/gallery.html

Multiple Personal Domains published to MobileMe?

I have a MobileMe Family account. Two of the users belong to me (one personal and one for business). Is it possible to create 2 personal domains in iWeb? Can't seem to be able to change the MobileMe account in iWeb unless I go to the main Apple System Preferences....and even doing that won't help me to publish to two individual personal domains. I really do like MobileMe and anything to keep me from having to subscribe to another hosting service would be great.

If you have an MME Family Pack then it is very easy to have 2 domain names linked to 2 accounts. That is the whole point of the Family Pack - you can have a CNAME set up for the one main account and 4 sub accounts.
Set up your main account and log into it and then set up your sub accounts from the main account. Under System Preferences, log out of the main account and then log into your sub account by entering the username and password and go to personal domain and enter this. Once you have done this stay logged into the account and open iWeb and publish the site that you want to publish. Just set up the domain name in the second account in exactly the same way as the first - log in and enter the personal domain and then publish form iWeb to it.
To make it even easier, what you can always do is create 2 new users on your computer and link 2 of your MobileMe accounts to the users, so when you switch user your get to the correct MME account without logging in and out under System Preferences.

IWeb slow publish

I'm curious about why iWeb publishes certain sites so slowly while others publish at a reasonable rate.
I ran across an article in this forum about a program called iWebSites that separates the different files and allows you to work with one at a time and save them as different sites rather than as divisions of the same file, which seems like it could speed up the process and help some of my iWeb lag issues. Does anyone know whether it's still usable with all the upgrades?
Also, I don't see any real answers to why iWeb seems to publish slowly since the Lion upgrade (honestly I don't know whether it's Lion or my interface with 1&1, my hosting site) and most of the more complete answers are from long ago. I was wondering whether there are ways to make it publish more quickly that I might not be aware of since I'm not very experienced (but am working to learn).
Thanks for any help!

What version of iWeb are you using? If you're using iWeb 3 then you only publish one website at a time so iWebSites is not needed. iWeb 2 publishes all the websites in the same domain file each time any site is published.
The sites that load more slowly: do then have more photos, movies and/or music files on their pages?
Users have reported the iWebSites does work with Lion. Also, in Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
For opening your domain file in Lion for the first time or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
Just launch the applicaiton, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
Or you can download an already compiiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
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Can I still create new sites in iweb and publish them to mobile me?

Can I still create new sites in iweb and publish them to mobile me? Also Can the sites not contain movies or photos, or just not a full gallery?

You can have as many sites and domain names on a single MMe account. However, only one site can use the CNAME domain name forwarding while the others must use URL forwarding.
Multiple Sites with Domain Name(s) in a Single MobileMe Account
Here's how to have multiple sites in a single MMe account with one or more sites having a domain name.
A. All sites are in the same Domain.sites2 files
1 - only one site can use the CNAME method of domain name forwarding and it must the top site in the left hand pane of iWeb.
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2 - the other sites must use URL domain name forwarding which directs the domain name to the site's full MMe URL, http://web.me.com/MMeUsername/SiteName, or, if there is no domain name, just MobileMe's full URL.
B. Each site is in its own Domain.sites2 file.
Again, only one site can use CNAME forwarding. This presents a problem since CNAME forwarding directs the domain name to the basic MMe account URL: http://web.me.com/MMe_Username/ which uses an index.html file in the root folder of the account, iDisk/Web/Sites. Each time a new site is published or an existing site uses the File->Publish Entire Site a new index.html file is created in that root directory, iDisk/Web/Sites folder, directing the browser to that particular site. This file is what the CNAME method uses to find the site it represents.
Therefore some steps must be taken to assure that the index.html file in the MMe Accounts root directory always points to the correct site. This can be accomplished is three ways.
1 - don't use the CNAME method. Just use URL forwarding . This, IMO, is the simplest method as it doesn't requre any additional effort on the user once the domain name has been set up.
2 - use the following method suggested by Wyodor in this topic: Is it possible to have multiple sites when using ur Domain name?
In iWeb domainfile 1:
Create a dummy site : _dummy
with a blank page.
Create your working site : Whatever
Add pages
Publish both Sites to the same same location on the same server.
Your _dummy site is now the default Site.
Check.
In iWeb domainfile 2:
Create/Use your CurrentSite.
Move a page to the top of the Site and back. Publish the Site.
iWeb will create a new index.html file in the root of the server and from now on CurrentSite is the default site.
Check.
From now on, never move your Whatever Site to the top of the list in the iWeb sidebar and never change the page in the _dummy site.
Simply do not touch your _dummy ever again. And never forget that.
3 - use Ethmoid's suggested method in Using two sites - setting one up with separate domain? or republishing the entire site that uses CNAME forwarding. Just making a minor change and publishing the site changes does not create a new index.html file.
The entire site must be republsihing in order to get that new site.
Or keep a copy of the CNAME site's index.html file on your Mac and replace it manually in the iDisk/Web/Sites fodler when necessary.
NOTE: the CNAME method provides a shorter URL: http://www.DomainName.com/Site_Name/PageName. CNAME does not have masking.
The URL forwarding displays the full MMe URL:
http://web.me.com/MMeUsername/Domain_Name/PageName.
With domain name masking that will be shortened to:
http://www.Domain_Name.com for every page of your site.
However, visitors will only be able to bookmark and enter at the first page of the site. If a page is refreshed the visitor is taken back to the first page. Also search engines will only be able to index the first page of the site.

HT2548 How can I resolve a conflict of 2 different iWeb Domains in my Library?

I somehow (using 2 different Macs) created 2 different iWeb domains (Domain and Domain 1) and now need to combine them into one Library on my new iMac. How can I resolve this issue? I want to be able to merge Domain 1 into Domain, so I can also FTP publish the pages in Domain 1 to my new webhosting service, (in addition to the many others I've already published from Domain). But I don't know how to merge them or even if it's possible? Can anyone help me out with this? This is the last thing I need to do before moving to iCloud. Thanks.

In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
To open your domain file in Lion or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
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Lost Domains & Publishing Issues

Up until a few days ago my iWeb site supported three domains: www.bundleofhiss.com; www.teahouseconcerts.com; www.teahousetap.com. The teahouse domains have disappeared from my iWeb, though not from the internet, and I don't know how to get them back so I can work on them. Any ideas out there?
Compounding that problem, I've been trying to publish the changes in the bundleofhiss site since yesterday - I've tried publish all about 10 times and I get one of two error messages: network issues; or error publishing. I've had the errors before, but never with this consistency. I'm having a hard time believing my network has been malfunctioning for the passed two days. Again - help!

Do you have a backup of you HD or those files? What version of iWeb are you running? That was a problem with an early version of iWeb 2, publishing a site from a separate domain file would delete the other domain files in the same location.
Download Find File and search for "domain.sites2". Find File searches in every nook and cranny of the HD whereas Spotlight has many locations as verboten. If you don't find the other domain files you'll have to recreate the other sites from scratch. Chapter 2.3 of this iWeb FAQ site has tips on using some of the published files in the reconstruction of the site.
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Repair iWeb "Domain" Files?

Hello there. I have a question
I've spent many weeks creating a site using iWeb and published most of it already. I have just made many more changes that haven't been published to .Mac. Just earlier today Thursday July 27, my Macbook began to crash, so I saved my progress in iWeb and it closed fine so I held the power button and it shut off. I turned it (meaning the computer) back on and opened iWeb to return to my work. After 3 or 4 seconds of opening iWeb, a msg displayed on the screen claiming the program "iWeb" shut down unexpectedly. I attempted again to open it and it returned with the same results. I did a bit of research on the int and tried a few tricks and it turned up nothing. Anywho, I was curious to know if there is any program avaliable for download that would open the damaged "Domain" file and allow me to repair or restore any changes to a previous point in time. If there is none out there, is it possible for me to write my own program to do this, and if there is, what is a good program to do this with? Thanks and please respond. Oh...and the site of mine that is on the internet is http://web.mac.com/eddy7496

i really need to fix it...
Don't use the icon view when the Finder. User the list view. Then the icon becomes the iWeb icon. In other words it's a Finder feature, not an iWeb problem.
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When iWeb finishes publishing, drop down shows wrong address

It's kinda weird. When iWeb finishes publishing my website, a drop down window asks, do you want to visit, announce, or finish. If you click visit, it goes to www.gogoglidepath.com/gogoglidepath. It should say www.gogoglidepath.com. Anybody know how to fix it? I know it's just a little bug, but it bugs me.

Well, no actually it is not incorrect, because that is how iWeb will publish. It will publish using a site folder with the same name as you called your site within iWeb. Did you name your site gogoglidepath in iWeb? If so, if you don't like it then you need to go back and change this in iWeb to something short like Site or S or whatever. That is how iWeb does things so your url is http://www.domain.com/sitename/pagename.
Are you publishing to MobileMe and forwarding your domain name or publishing direct to your host? If using MME there is not a lot you can do about this apart from changing to web forwarding from CNAME forwarding so that your url will be http://www.domain.com. You can then only bookmark the whole site rather than pages.
If uploading directly, you can upload just the contents of your site folder rather than the whole folder itself.

Iweb installed on a new computer but i have this error message: Can't open file "~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites2."

I have just installed ilife on my new computer from my disk. I have several backups of my webpage from my old computer. Everything would be great if I could just run the program. When I click the icon for iWeb I get the following message: Can’t open file “~/Library/Application Support/iWeb/Domain.sites2.”
Somebody please help! I desperately need to update my website.

In Lion the Library folder is now invisible. To make it permanently visible enter the following in the Terminal application window: chflags nohidden ~/Library and hit the Enter button - 10.7: Un-hide the User Library folder.
To open your domain file in Lion or to switch between multiple domain files Cyclosaurus has provided us with the following script that you can make into an Applescript application with Script Editor. Open Script Editor, copy and paste the script below into Script Editor's window and save as an application.
do shell script "/usr/bin/defaults write com.apple.iWeb iWebDefaultsDocumentPath -boolean no"delay 1
tell application "iWeb" to activate
Just launch the application, find and select the domain file you want to open and it will open with iWeb. It modifies the iWeb preference file each time it's launched so one can switch between domain files.
You can download an already compiled version with this link: iWeb Switch Domain.
WARNING: iWeb Switch Domain will overwrite an existing Domain.sites2 file if you select to create a new domain in the same folder. So rename your domain files once they've been created to something other than the default name.
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