Iweb and domain

i just published my photos thru iweb on my .mac account and i also bought a domain name so people can go to this address and see my pics. i only bought the domain name since .mac is hosting the web. what do i need to do to get the 2 in sync? i am not very computer saavy when it comes to stuff like this. can someone help me out?

The previous suggestion will work but may cost you something.
You can do something yourself to have anyone that goes to www.yourdomain.com be automatically redirected to whatever page you want. It would require you to add a bit of code to your existing "default.htm" or "index.html" file.
The code is:
<meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0; url=http://web.mac.com/<your site here/">
Simply add this code after the <html> and <head> tag. Here's what my page looks like; I use it to send folks that go to my old homepage.mac.com site.
[html snipit]
<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 3.2 Final//EN">
<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html;charset=utf-8">
<meta name="GENERATOR" content="HomePage"><meta HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="7; url=http://web.mac.com/gregmeach/">
<title>GregMeach Menu</title>
extra stuff....
</head></html>
[end of snipit]
Try it out, go to:
http://homepage.mac.com/gregmeach/
and you'll see after 7 seconds you'll be sent to my new web.mac.com site.

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IWeb and domain name

I have created a website on iWeb and would like to post it to a domain name. I don't know much about this part and would like advice. Where can I get a domain name and what can I expect to pay. Then, once I have it, how do I post the website I created on iWeb onto that domain name?

http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWeb_Domains.html

IWeb and domain names 101

I know this material has been covered here before, but I'm having trouble putting the story together fully - sorry if this is repetitive, but:
I have a website up which I created in iWeb, and currently publish in iWeb using my Mobile Me account to host it. I assume that's how it's working anyway? I think the folders holding the site pictures etc are kept on my iDisk?
I have two questions
1) I want to purchase a simpler name for the site, and just work it so that everything is the same, but my site will now have a simple name, rather than the complex one it is assigned by iWeb (which uses my email address, etc etc)
How do I do that?
2) Is that the best way to do this, or are there benefits to having the site hosted by another service other than .Mac (or MobileMe - whatever it is porperly called these days.)
Thanks!

Please can you help.
I have two Mobile Me accounts, and I want to load a different personal domain on the second one to the first one. The first one is personal, and the second one is for a group practice. When I uploaded the pages to Mobile Me, it "assumed" that the pages intended for the second site were to be loaded to the first site under domain name 1. In fact, I want to get those pages under domain name 2. I have been to the domain provider's site and changed the CNAME so that it uploads under the second domain name. I assumed that I could have two separate domain names because I have paid two subs for Mobile Me. What I can't work out is how I can move the pages from the first account personal domain to the second account personal domain. Can anyone help please?

IWeb and Domain Names

Hi, I've purchased several domain names and want to publish websites to my iDisk which I want to be found on search engines. Is CName the only way to do this, thus limiting me to only use one CName and one domain name? Be patient, I'm new and slow. Thanks

Thanks Wyodor,
OK Cname has nothing to do with being found by a search engine, but what does? I have published a site anstock.org on which I want to develop family tree information but an anstock search doesn't show up on a google search.
Yes I can do URL forwarding and I have learned how to publish different sites using iWebsites, but no search engine is picking up my site. I'm practicing to get ready for a business. I'm a therapist and own sandplay.net.au but typing in sandplay in google does not pick up my URL forwarded (practice) page.
Further advice would be greatly appreciated.

Iweb and domain frwrdng problem

I'm hoping someone can help...my webiste is up and running for months now, I went and tried to change something, published it and now it goes to "not found". www.studio188.com, i use mydomain.com for the url forwarding and everything is set correctly within my account. did I goof in iweb? directly, i tried changing the portion where it labels pages of your site, and changed "Site" to read something else. so simple....it's silly really.
anyone?

The reason this happens is because you have a "space" after the word "Site" in your iWeb site name.
http://web.mac.com/studio188photography/iWeb/Site%20/Studio%20188%20.html
See the "Site%20"??? That %20 is a space character.
Fix this and your forwarding will work again. Though, I would still recommend changing your forwarding to a less specific short iWeb URL. That way if you ever decide to change your site name or want to add another site, you can use the same forwarding.

IWeb and 123-reg personal domain difficulties

I have published before using iWeb but have now recently bought a domain name with 123-reg. I have changed my CNAME with 123-reg but cannot publish my website using iWeb. It just says:
Publish Error - There was an error updating MobileMe.
What am I doing wrong? Is it massively obvious? I've waited more than 48 hours.

Try the following:
delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your Home() /Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
launch iWeb and try again.
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IWeb and using my personal domain name.

I have never published a web site before and this is a first time for me.
With having iWeb version 8 installed I have created a website with photos etc.
I have also registered a domain name to use my personal name. This is the one and only web-site I have published.
The name has been set up for forwarding with the CName as web.mac.com with the host site in the section of ‘Masked forwarding’
And in my personal settings in the account manager on .Mac the correct name has been entered to use for my iWeb site. For example www.anthonyjhowe.com which is my registered name.
In the iWeb application under file I have published all my pages to .mac.
In my iDisk folder on the Internet there is a folder named “web/sites and inside this folder, there is my gallery but also a folder named AnthonyJHowe, this has all my pages I created in iWeb.
There is another folder named “iWeb. But inside this there is one file named sites.rss, and that is all. This is replicated on my iDisk on my desktop.
Now in iWeb when I publish all to .Mac I receive a message that my site can be visited using my domain name and would I like to visit or announce the site. This lists all the pages I have published.
When I click on visit, it takes me to the .Mac welcome screen and not my site.
That’s how far I have got. It’s been over 72 hours since I registered the domain name.
I have searched and read some posts about this but I don’t seem to go any further with this.
Could you give some suggestions please and perhaps point me in the right direction?

This iWeb’s Domain Forwarding feature that has you publish the site to your .Mac account and then uses your domain name as an alias for your Web site should be relative simple procedure, but with quite a lot of posts on this subject, including myself is not easy to set up and it should be as iWeb 08 is a consumer product. There is little information about this at present.
Getting in touch with the registrars can be quite daunting and eventually you may get one person in the office that may be able to help you. Apple's information to suggest you contact the Registrar of you domain host to create a CNAME does not help an ordinary consumer either.
My issue with the Personal Domain feature is that it places the burden of making the switch on the user, and it is far from a straightforward process and my unfortunate lack of experience has led me to ask the question in the first place.
This discussion forum seems to be the only place that gets close to helping you out.
As it stands, the instructions from Apple are extremely vague, mostly advising you to contact your domain name registrar. They give no indication of what to expect or do if things that aren’t working correctly. And that's why a lot ask the question in the first place in this discussion forum. However those who have experience in dealing with these matters may not always see your post.
I can usually work out problems to do with computing, but to be honest this one has me beat and yet it should be and probably is a simple procedure to carry out. But there is either very little information to carry out the procedure or confusing information elsewhere that makes the mind boggle.
The link below is the only information I can find from Apple to help you, unless someone knows of other information.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306195

IWeb and personal domain

Is it possible to create a website using iWeb and upload it to personal domain (www.mydomain.com) without Mobile Me?

Yes, you can.
Sign up at a webhost, with or without a domainname, and publish.
Before you do, you can practice on your own computer :
http://www.wyodor.net/Tutorials/iWebDemo/sFTP.html
And you don't upload to a personal domain. You upload to a server.
And browse this forum. It has been discussed several times a day every day since June last year.
Can any one recommend a web hosting company

IWEB Using Domain Email and not .me email

Hi - I registered a domain name with 123-reg.co.uk. I then transferred that to www.me.com by changing the CNAME settings so that the only one left was the CNAME for www.mydomain.co.uk. That all went well and the site is published OK. The problem I am having is when I add the "email me' button. I clicked on SITE INSPECTOR and changed the email address to [email protected] but I can't find anywhere to change the A record on iWEB so that I can get the email forwarded to my personal email.
I have looked around but can't seem to find a full answer to this question - it seems that you have to fudge it somehow back at 123-reg.co.uk by adding another CNAME record without the www. at the beginning. I feel like I am going round in circles so if anyone can help I would be grateful.
Thanks
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Things to do with forwarding e-mail has nothing whatsoever to do with iWeb and you won't find this in iWeb settings.
You need to go to your domain name registrar 123-reg.co.uk and set-up e-mail forwarding to your .me e-mail address, so that when someone sends you an e-mail through your domain e-mail address it gets forwarded to your .me address.
You can either use e-mail forwarding or go and configure your e-mail account to be able to use it, so you would set it up with a username and password so that it is either [email protected] or [email protected] Then go and set this e-mail account up on your mac and you will receive these e-mails.
I have a registered domain name for my business/practice and went and set up my e-mail to use for this, so rather than forwarding I have a separate e-mail account for all work and business related e-mails. I use my .me e-mail address for personal things.
Go back to 123-reg and alter these settings or contact their support and ask them to do it for you. It is not an iWeb issue.

I have and existing web site and domain name. I'd like to know how to import into iweb. I currently use Yahoo's sitebuilder to build my site but Sitebuilder is not compatible with the iMac

I have and existing web site and domain name. I'd like to know how to import into iweb. I currently use Yahoo's sitebuilder to build my site but Sitebuilder is not compatible with the iMac

Chapter 2.3 on the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the existing files, image, audio, video, etc., from the published site in the creation of the new site with iWeb.
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More than one editor (computer) for iWeb and using paypal

I am not a full-time Mac user, but have been asked to complete a website for a client who has started one in iWeb. She wishes to continue her site in iWeb so that she can make future changes to it. Currently, we have different versions of iWeb on our computers (hers is 2.0.4, mine is 1.0.2). It is my understanding so far that we would need the same version to be able to edit the site on both computers.
Before I can agree to finish the site for her, I would like to confirm that if I upgrade my computer to iLife 08, and she publishes the website to MobileMe, I would be able to retrieve the site and work on it from my computer and vice versa.
Also, she wishes to incorporate paypal in her site. Would this be an issue?
Thank you.

previllej wrote:
Also, would I be able to retrieve her domain file with iDisk (through MobileMe, right?)?
Yes, that's right. For transferring iWeb's Domain file you could use iDisk's Public folder. The general address is:
http://public.me.com/membername
And here's an example:
http://public.me.com/emily_parker
But before transferring the Domain file, read "NOTE 1" here:
http://iwebfaq.org/site/iWebTwocomputers.html
previllej wrote:
I had not heard of the PayPal rule for MobileMe - I will look into this. If you have a link to the documentation for it, please let me know.
+"The Service is designed for personal use and not intended to be used for commercial business purposes, including, but not limited to, *transacting online sales* or software distribution via an e-commerce site."+ ...Quoted from the _MobileMe Terms of Service_.
So yes, you could upgrade to iWeb '08 in order to be able to open the Domain file transferred via iDisk. But if the site is using PayPal, you are not supposed to publish it to MobileMe — instead, publish it to a folder and then FTP to another host.

IWeb and multiple users

So i'm trying to see how i can set up a website in iweb and edit that website from multiple computers and it stay up-to-date. is there a way to do this?

thanks, that does help a bit, i think i can figure that out. my next question is what happens to my existing iweb sites if i try to open a different DOMAIN file from a different source?
ie: i have like over 20 iWeb sites in my iWeb 2.0 that are in a DOMAIN file stored in the default location. if i go to open (by double clicking) a DOMAIN file from an iDisk for instance to edit it and it opens iWeb, what will happen with my other sites? and will this set that iDisk DOMAIN file location as my default?

My new computer does not have iWeb and I can't open the files from the old computer. What can I do???

I'm really desperate. I used to publish to a blog directly from iWeb, then I discontinued it. When I made the switch to iCloud, I wasn't worried because I knew my files would always be there. However, once I got a new computer, I transferred all the old files to an external hard drive and I thought everything would work just fine. Well, it didn't Neither can I open iWeb nor can I find my files.
Can anyone help me please?

New Macs have not shipped with iWeb for over 2 years and Apple has not sold or supported iWeb for at least 2 years now - Apple stopped selling it and dropped support for it when MobileMe was ditched in favour of iCloud which does not offer hosting.
If you want iWeb, then you will need to have a look at your old installation CD's for your old Mac and see if iWeb is on these and you can then install it from there or if you don't have these CD's any longer, then you'll have no option but to purchase a copy of either iLife 09 or iLife 11 from Amazon - these boxed sets both contain iWeb 09, which is the latest version of iWeb.
Other than this and as you have not done your blog for sometime, perhaps you should consider re-creating it from scratch with a software that is actively supported and updated - that is NOT iWeb any longer.
You could try using WordPress, either .com or .org - .org is good if you already have hosting and you can install WordPress directly onto your server. If you want something free, then you could use WordPress.com which is then published on the WordPress servers.
You could also take a look at EverWeb from Rage Software, which is very new and is very like iWeb with all the extras, such as drop down menus etc. Take a look at http://www.everwebapp.com.
As for your files, it sounds that when you say files, these might be the published files for your site, if you went into iWeb and published them to a local folder? This is not a backup and even if you could find these files, then iWeb will not be able to open them because it has no import facility, so cannot open an already published site - html and css files.
What you need is your domain.sites files which can be found under your User Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites.
I would cut your losses and if you don't have iWeb, then don't bother paying for software that is now outdated and unsupported - move onto to something new and re-create everything in either WordPress or EverWeb.

Creating Iweb seperate domains for multiple sites DIDNT WORK

Hi! Any help would be much appreicaited!
I am creating mutiple websites in iWeb 09'. All 3 of my websites have been stored under 1 domain file on my mac. I have read numerous discussion boards stating the steps of how to seperate each of the created sites from the one domain file, into mutiple domain files. I followed the steps on this website :
http://lmsdiweb.wikispaces.com/Saving+Locally
I moved the Domain folder out of its original location into a new folder on my harddrive entitled "Sites". Then i made sub folders within that folder and duplicated the domain 3 times and placed each copy in those folders. then i double clicked on the domain for my 1st site, opened iWeb, and then deleted the other sites i did not want on this new "domain" file i created and hit saved. This is exactly what the website said to do to create the seperate domain files for each seperate site. It then said repeat for each site, deleting the sites that are not needed on that domain.
All of that being said, it didnt seem to work when i tried to open the 2nd copy of the domain. When iWeb opened after double clicking the 2nd domain copy, it did not open and show me all 3 sites as it should have, it opened to show me the one site that i just "saved" after deleting the other sites for the previous domain i was trying to create.
I'm afraid i posisbly lost my other 2 sites. I backed up my first initial "domain" file which had all 3 sites within it on my external hard drive, and when i double clicked on that to make sure my sites weren't lost forever, same thing happened and only my lastest site that i saved on the 1st attempt to seperate domain files is visable on my iWeb.
Did i loose everything i created in my other 2 sites? How do i get them back? What did i do wrong? Any help is much appreiciated as i have a feeling i might have made a serious mistake and need some help figuring this all out!
Thank you!
Also, I published all of my sites "to a folder" on my hard drive before doing this as well. Is there any way to take the published folder contents and put my site back on iweb for editing again?

With three sites in a domain file here's how I would do it. Create 3 copies of your domain file and name them for the three website, i.e "website1.sites, website 2.sites, etc.
With the application discussed in the text below open website1.sites and delete website 2 and website 3 from it and save. Open website 2.sites and delete 1 and 3. Do the same for website 3.sites.
Then use the application mentioned below to open iWeb and select the website you want.
In Lion and Mountain Lion the Home/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 Mountain 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 in your Home/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder that 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.
NOTE: iWeb 2 is not compatible with Mt. Lion and has trouble saving to the hard drive. It's suggested you obtain iWeb 3
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IWeb and SimpleViewer Pro gallery issues

Hello all!
I have a simple viewer gallery (http://simpleviewer.net/simpleviewer/) and I tried to upload the gallery on a page of my iweb site through IFRAME with this code:
<IFRAME SRC = "MY LINK" WIDTH="260px" HEIGHT="425px" FRAMEBORDER="0" --if "0" no border, otherwise "1" with border MARGINWIDTH ="0px" MARGINHEIGHT="0px" SCROLLING="no" --"no" no scrolling bar, "yes" show always, "auto" showed when need > Your browser does not support IFRAME </IFRAME>
the result is that iWeb crashes even before saving the html snippet, so I have to restart everything and nothing changes. So as soon as i paste the code in the html snippet iWeb stops responding.
Any help please?
Thank you,
Ilenia

Try the following:
1 - close iWeb.
2 - delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your User/Library/Preferences folder.
3 - go to your User/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete the contents.
4 - reboot.
5 - launch iWeb and see if there's any improvement.
If that doesn't help continue:
6 - move the domain file from your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder to the Desktop.
7 - launch iWeb, create a new test site and save.
8 - go to the your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder and delete the new domain file.
9 - move your original domain file from the Desktop to the iWeb folder.
10 - launch iWeb and try again.
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