IWeb suddenly won't publish

All of a sudden, when I try to publish my site, .mac tells me to sign in. I type in my password, but nothing happens. Please help!

I have been having this problem for the past month.
My iWeb sites are published to Mobile Me. I update them at least once a day. Every week...usually on a weekend, I have experienced the same error described in this thread. The fact that is almost always happens on a weekend is suspicious. The only other time it happened was at 5AM on a Monday morning.
I have stopped believing that it is somehow related to an error on my computer. I tried deleting preferences in both places (the "ByHost" folder that is inside the user's Preferences folder and the regular iWeb preferences file inside the user's Preferences folder. I can publish to a folder and then drag the files to my iDisk without any problem. In the end, if I wait long enough, the problem seems to go way.
I can't be sure, but I believe this problem began when I upgraded from Mac OSX 10.5.7 to 10.5.8.
To the people who have been having this problem, I can only say that I don't think the problem lies with you and your software.

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IWeb suddenly no longer publishing

Has this long-running issue been solved?
Having enjoyed iWeb problem-free for ages, today it suddenly refuses to publish with an error.
I have deleted the preferences and domain files. I have re-installed. None of it works. I can publish to a folder, but not to .Mac
My connection is just fine. .Mac is not syncing at the time, but iWeb does not want to know. Deleting all pages means that the new file/site menu items get greyed out, so that does not seem to be the way to go.
I have repaired the keychain, and repaired all permissions, in fact I have done a full system maintenance.
I am stumped. Help?
JKB

I have just discovered that I am having the same problem. Got the error saying 'The document 'iWeb" could not be saved' right after "Preparing to publish". It worked fine before. What worries me is the following sequence of events before this:
- yesterday safari all of sudden crashed, closing all the safari windows opened;
- then I did a software update, was told to install a security patch for mac os and to restart. did it;
- some time after that, mac ox suddenly crashed after I launched safari, asking me to force a restart by powering down;
- today after I downloaded photos to iphoto from my canon, I found out that I could not launch the Adjustment window to adjust my photos;
- then I discovered that I could not publish iweb.
I makes me wonder if there is anything seriously bad happening to my macbook. I used to be a windows user. this is my first mac. thought it would be nice and smooth ...
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IWeb still won't publish. At All. Tired and fed up

Hi, yesterday I posted a Help note saying that iWeb was refusing to publish my website. I got some advice back from James Tseng (thanks James) saying I should keep trying. Well, I have kept trying - this is a day later - and i still get the message: "An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/Site” when trying to publish.
It's like buying a new car that refuses to start. Every time I complain to the garage, they say: "Well, try again in a few hours time!". And the worst thing is about the above Apple message is that it gives you no idea what the problem is.
I have read James' suggestion and read web.mac.com/mark8heaton/iWeb/PublishErrorsHelp/Publish%20Errors%20Help.htm and l have managed to publish to a folder. But I'm not confident about following the other suggestions as I'm not a technical person. I also run my own business and don't have the time to keep trying all these alternatives. I bought what I thought was a professional package - iLife (iWeb) and a year's .Mac subscription; I spent three working days working on the website. Yet nothing works. It just doesn't publish. At all. At any time of day or night (I got up in the middle of the night to try again - but got the same error message again).
What am I doing with this half-cookedbaked product and service? It's completely unacceptable.
Answers? Suggestions? Before I go back to the London Apple store and politely request a refund...?
Thanks
ADrian
G4 867 Dual processor Silver Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Hi
Please don't cry, I'm sure you'll get sorted out - there's plenty of people on this forum that can give you good advice.
If you only bought subscription to .Mac yesterday are you sure it's up and running? Try logging in to your account on
http://www.mac.com/WebObjects/Welcome.woa/wa/login?aff=consumer&cty=US&lang=en
If you can't log in then you'll not be able to publish.
If you can log in you can get some info about your account by clicking on the little house symbol at the left of the blue header bar ... I'm looking at mine now and the system status window does state that today "Web Services were unavailable for 2 hour(s) to all .Mac Members." Doesn't say between what times though.
Your iDisk is basically your personal storage space on Apple's Servers (.Mac).
When you (finally) publish your iWeb site, the uploaded files will go into certain folders on iDisk.
The iDisk on your desktop is just a copy of the iDisk on .Mac
The two iDisks synchronise with each other whenever you make changes:
You can manually make changes and add files to iDisk on your desktop, and it will synchronise with the one on .Mac - you can set it to do this either manually or automatically.
Hope that all makes sense.

IWeb site suddenly won't publish to MobileMe

Have been publishing my iWeb site successfully with iLife '09 and Snow Leopard for a couple of months now. Yesterday I added a page and published successfully. Then I made changes to some already published pages. These pages are mostly photos and I changed download size from medium to large. Tried to publish these changes and got the error message: An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/.Temporary Web Resources/C-20091129-115210-0500/RiceHS/bavs_Iona_Prep_files/Media/DSC2189”. Try publishing again later.
Have tried to publish just changes and then the whole site again. I always get the error message but the long file name changes every time. I have deleted clientConfiguration.plist, com.apple.iWeb.plist and CachedResources.plist files. Problem persists. Anyone have any idea what is going on?

I have been having this problem for the past month.
My iWeb sites are published to Mobile Me. I update them at least once a day. Every week...usually on a weekend, I have experienced the same error described in this thread. The fact that is almost always happens on a weekend is suspicious. The only other time it happened was at 5AM on a Monday morning.
I have stopped believing that it is somehow related to an error on my computer. I tried deleting preferences in both places (the "ByHost" folder that is inside the user's Preferences folder and the regular iWeb preferences file inside the user's Preferences folder. I can publish to a folder and then drag the files to my iDisk without any problem. In the end, if I wait long enough, the problem seems to go way.
I can't be sure, but I believe this problem began when I upgraded from Mac OSX 10.5.7 to 10.5.8.
To the people who have been having this problem, I can only say that I don't think the problem lies with you and your software.

IWeb still won't publish

Too bad they tied iPhoto to iWeb, because it just isn't working. It used to be so simple and easy to publish. Now I can't get iweb to work no matter what. I have deleted all the files (iweb)on my dot mac (read that helped someone else around here) I have taken my G5 off the router and gone direct to the broadband hook-up in my house (that helped someone else). No good. iweb hangs every single time. I had published about 5 times since I upgraded a month or two ago. The past week, it will not work.
Any idea why this is happening? I see other threads on it and suddenly things seem to start working. Is Apple messing and locking off bandwidth or something?

Mark.... two things always get in the way when publishing. Bandwidth/cpu usage and preference files that are corrupt.
PREFERENCE FILE CORRUPTION
First... if iWeb is open, save your changes and quit... then follow this path to Hard disk/users/username/library/application support/iweb/DOMAIN
When you get to the DOMAIN file, click on it once while holding down the CONTROL key.
Select SHOW PACKAGE CONTENTS.
Inside this first folder, or an interior folder you will find a file called "assets.username.plist"
username in this file will be replaced by your user name on your local computer.
Drag this file to the trash and throw it away. if you preferences file is not corrupted it will be rewritten when you reopen the application, if it is corrupted, which appears to happen a lot, it prevents you from uploading successfully.
BANDWIDT/CPU usage.
I've personally found that using your bandwidth, or someone else in your house using your bandwidth, can cause "time out" issues with an upload. I'm suspecting that it's at Apple's end, and that their server times people out if they don't recieve data in a minute or two. So.... if your spouse or kid is surfing the net, or downloading songs from itms.... then it will cause a publishing error. It's happened to me.
CPU usage also will cause your computer to slow, especially those of us in the g4 camp. So turn everything else off. Also... go to your system preferences and set your screen saver to NEVER, along with your energy saver settings to NEVER. Both of these didn't play well with iWeb 1.0, and still seem to cause problems with 1.1
Well, that's it, these two have always worked for me. and I publish a large (1gig) site.
Jim
20" Imac 1ghz (lmpstd), Mini, G4 Dual 1.8, G4 400, 12" Powerbook, ibook, eMac Mac OS X (10.4.5)

IWeb 08 won't publish

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I was registered with MobileMe and had a MacMail email account, but when Apple decided to end MobileMe and replace with iCloud, my IT person said not to upgrade to iCloud as there could be conflicts with my software.
I managed to retain my MacMail accounts which are working fine now, and I did follow the instructions for iWeb before the changeover.
Since the changeover from MobileMe to iCloud, I find that I can no longer publish iWeb, and when I try to access my website on Safari it comes up with 'Service not available'.
I have been in touch with my IT person and my web hosting company and have spent the last few days trying to get this sorted, all to no avail.
When I try to publish my iWeb site, a dialog box comes up with 'Publish your website to MobileMe" and then it takes me to iCloud and of course it cannot be published. Does this mean I'll never be able to make any more changes to my website? I could just live with that, or would it be worth considering upgrading to iWeb 09 or is that very painful? I'm very concerned that if I did upgrade to iWeb 09 from 08, that all my pages might change drastically.
Hope someone can help me please through this very traumatic time.
Thanks

Its hardly worth your while upgrading to iWeb V3 since a lot of the features are redundant now that MobileMe has closed...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/mountain-lion.html
For less than the cost of an out of date iLife disk with iWeb V3 you can buy a new application that is actually being developed!
In the meantime, publishing your website to a local folder has the added advantage of allowing you to add tags for SEO ...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Tags.html
... and optimize your files for faster download...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Optimize.html

My iWeb site won't publish

Figuring I've seen some reasonably nice looking sites published via iWeb, and having all the tools supposedly integrated to incorporate podacasts, movies, etc., AND having been a .Mac/Mobile Me subscriber since 2005, with rather little relative benefit compared to other cloud/hosting services I could have used, I decided to give iWeb and Mobile Me a spin with a real project, something sort of arty. So, fine, I have created a Site, and created decent workflows for a very frequent podcast, and hit the "Publish" button.
And waited.
As typically happens with me, I have added a challenge to this mix, in that I have another domain which I would like hosted via MobileMe, so I looked up the directions for the redirect, and dutifully edited the DNS registry for that domain to get aliasing (CNAME: web.me.com.) to work, which according to everything I can see, has. Two days have now passed, and still no site on either the MobileMe address or the aliased domain.
I believe I have done everything correctly. ANy suggestions as to how I can get my site up and running?
Thanks in advance!

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/MMe_Username/Site_Name, 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.Domain_Name.com/Site_Name/Page_Name. CNAME does not have masking.
The URL forwarding displays the full MMe URL:   http://web.me.com/MMe_Username/Domain_Name/Page_Name.   With domain name masking that will be shortened to:   http://www.Domain_Name.com for every page of your site.
However, with masking 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.
OT

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Dragging a media file onto an iWeb page requires that it load with the web page in the browser and also that the visitor have the QuickTime plugin. Uploading the files via FTP to the server and calling them up with some code allows the webpage to load faster. You can also set the media players to play the files in all browsers and devices.
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http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Upload.html
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1. discount a router if you are one, direct connect to your high speed connection (if you have one)
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3. do not have any other network activity going on. No iTunes, no mail, no downloads ETC.
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I have 3 websites - my personal site and 2 client sites which have passwords on them. Thanks to Finder have the mother of all freezes I've spent the weekend reinstalling everything back onto my Mac Pro, and when I transfered my iWeb domain file from the back up to the iWeb folder in App Support, as expected it needed to republish everything.
That was fine for the two client sites (with around 60 mp3s on one and 15 on the other) but now when it comes to publishing my main site (with one change - an icon has increased in size) I click on the publish button which greys out... and that's it. Nothing else happens. The spin-ey thing doesn't spin next to the site. It just sits there idley doing sweet nothing.
I've logged out of my .mac account and back in again, still nothing.
I've heard about people saying that it won't publish changes, but this won't publish period! (I've just added a blank page and it's doing the same thing)
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Log out of your account again and then log in with bogus account name and password. This clears the caches. Then log in again with the correct account name and password. See if that will jump start the publishing.
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For the last 2 days, every time I try to publish iWeb to .mac, a box comes up asking for my password. I enter it, but nothing happens.
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I have encountered the same problems - my site was fine until yesterday when I decided to change it and now it won't publish.
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