Moving iweb site from mobileme account...

Our hard drive failed last night. Therefore our site is also gone. I know you can save the files from one computer and transfer to another to edit your site. Is there ANY way that it can be saved from the mobileme and then transferred to another computer with iweb?

Yes, we took it to two different people this morning. Hard drive "clicking" = very bad! We have to hire a professional drive saver to get anything back. We'll contact Apple (again). It is under warranty, but once we send it in to them they take the old hard drive and will not retrieve any files. We have to retrieve the files first. Thanks for the help. I kind of knew what the answer would be- but thought I would ask in case there was some magical trick!

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Hi, I'm moving my site from MobileMe to Filezilla and there is apparently a coding error on iWeb that means when I try to get onto my site there's no access online and it says there are too many redirects. Anyone have any idea what this might be?

Hi, I'm moving my site from MobileMe to Filezilla and there is apparently a coding error on iWeb that means when I try to get onto my site there's no access online and it says there are too many redirects. Anyone have any idea what this might be?

Well, firstly Filezilla is not a hosting company but an ftp client that helps you upload your site to your new server. You need to purchase a new hosting account first though.
If you have iWeb 09 then you can publish directly to your new host and you select the publish to ftp option and not MobileMe - MobileMe won't be here after tomorrow.
You can also publish to a local folder if want to and use Filezilla to upload your site to your server.
You don't need re-directs as MobileMe won't be here so you need to cancel and delete your domain name from your MobileMe account and then cancel any domain name forwarding that you have at your domain name registrar - that is what the redirects are about.
Firstly ensure that you have your new hostings account - Filezilla is not a host, rather an ftp client that you use to upload your site.

Deleting iweb site from mobileme

I have moved my web site to a new hosting service. All OK.
However, I realise now that I did things in the wrong order really. I wanted to leave a stub on the old MobileMe site redirecting my audience. I did this by deleting my website from MobileMe on my iDisk (I stupidly did not delete the index.html file - but have realised my error and redeleted my 'new' stub website and the index.html file and then republished. Even though I gave the site the same name as my old site MobileMe has insisted on changing it by taking off the last letter and adding _1, so that when anyone tries to visit the old site they just get a whole lot of stuff from MobileMe which is not useful.
I realise now I should first have duplicated my site - given the duplicate a new name and published this to the new host, deleted all the pages from my original website except the new Home page, and republished this to MobileMe. Alas I did not do this. Is there any way of getting my 'new' marker website to publish to the original MobileMe address?
I guess it's no big deal really. Mine is not a major website - it's just a family history website (now at www.dearmanmollett.id.au - originally http://web.me.com/dearmanmollett/Dearman_Mollett_Family ( think)) After all MobileMe will make it all disappear anyway on June 30 I assume - but I would really like to delete all trace of the former website except for a marker site redirecting traffic.
Hoping at the very least that my problem will help others.

You could replace the first page of the old site on MMe with a blank one containing an HTML snippet with the following code:
<script type="text/javascript">
parent.window.location = "URL TO SITE YOU WANT TO REDIRECT TO"; </script>
Thanks to Cyclosaurus for this code
When a visitor lands on the page they will immediately be redirected to your new website.
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Moving iWeb site from PowerBook G4 (iWeb 1.1.2) to Intel iMac (iWeb 2.0.4)

We were out of town recently and had a big family adventure that we wanted to share with friends and family who live far from us. We decided to use iWeb on our PowerBook G4 to do this. We had never used iWeb prior to this. We naively thought that we could then just always work on it from our iMac thinking that it was not published to our hard drive but uploaded via our .mac. I have learned since coming home that that is not the case and that, in fact, the domain lives on our PowerBook.
Now we are home and we would like to transfer the site from our PowerBook G4 to our Intel iMac given that we use the iMac predominantly and the PowerBook for travel only.
I read on one support page that all I needed to do was move the domain file under library/applicationsupport/iWeb/domain on the PowerBook to the same location on the iMac. But then I read in other areas of the Apple Support Site, including these forums, that I may not be correct in this. I also thought I read somewhere that the two iWeb applications on the computers need to be the same version, but in other places this is not mentioned. Our PowerBook is running iWeb 1.1.2 and our iMac is running iWeb 2.0.4.
What I am hoping is possible is that I can just use my firewire and Target Disk Mode to transfer the file like I did when I was transferring our iPhoto library to the iMac and our iMovies. It did not seem to matter that the two computers had different versions of these applications, the moves worked like a charm. And I am hoping that perhaps I could still work on the webpage from the laptop when we travel and want to add to the site to keep our friends and family up to date with our activities. Are these things possible?
Any guidance would be greatly appreciated!
Thanks so much!
Teresa

MDTeresa wrote:
in the old days of .mac, before mobile me, there was a way to view your webpage or homepage...
Teresa ~ That was probably using the .Mac HomePage web-based app — but that has nothing to do with iWeb. See this Apple doc:
_MobileMe: Finding your .Mac Homepage_
...figure out how to access my iWeb page using my .mac MobileMe.
Currently, you can't manage your iWeb page via the web — it must be done via the iWeb app on a Mac.
...does that mean that after i transfer it, i can't access it from my iWeb app and that i have to go to it via the library...
You can put that transferred domain file wherever you want on your iMac and you can have multiple domain files. See this article:
_How do you manage multiple domain files for iWeb?_
Double-clicking a domain file will open its site(s) in iWeb. Double-clicking the iWeb app will open the last domain file used.
...or does it mean it will show up in my sites on iWeb and i double click it at that point and then it will convert from 1.1.2 to 2.0.4?
It won't show up as a site in iWeb until you've double-clicked the transferred domain file on your iMac and iWeb has converted it to 2.x format.
But whatever you do, first do backups of your domain files to an external drive so you don't confuse them with the domain files on your Mac's internal drive:
_iWeb ’08: Backing up your Domain file_

IWeb - Moving iweb site from one mac to another mac.

Hi,
I am using iWeb 08 and would like to move the iWeb site that was created on one mac to another mac to continue editing on the other mac. Any one now how to do this.
Thanks
tsofa

Hi Tsofa,
You need to locate and copy the Domain.site2 file which iWeb creates.
By default this is usually located in User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/
You can copy this to any location on the other mac. As long as you use this file to start iWeb, it will recognise it as your default.
If you want to create a new one, but still keep the old, just rename the file and start iWeb, which will generate a new Domain.sites2 file
Regs
Nirv

Moving iWeb site from my iBook to my new iMac

Hi guys,
I'm having problems with moving my iWeb website to my new iMac. I have tried moving the domain file from the User>Library>Application Support>iWeb folder into the same location on my new computer and, yes, it does indeed work. However when I come to publish the site it appears that it cannot connect to MobileMe in order to upload. Am I doing something wrong? Any ideas as I really need to get my portfolio published online!
Thanks
Ben

Are you able to publish to a folder? If you can the problem is not with the domain file. So try the following:
1 - copy the domain file from your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder to the Shared folder on your Mac.
2 - Create a new account on your mac or log into another existing account.
3 - go to the System/MobileMe preference pane and log into your MMe account.
4 - move the Domain file from the Shared folder to your desktop and double click on it.
5 - try to publish from there.
Note: if you don't have permission to open that domain file you can set the permissions as follows:
download and run BatChmod on the Domaine.sites2 file with the settings shown here, putting your administrator login name in the owner section and Staff in the group section. You can either type in the path to the file or just drag the file into that field.
If you're not able to publish then the issue is with iWeb and a reinstall of iWeb is warranted. To do so you'll have to delete the current application and all files with "iWeb" in the file name that reside in the HD/Library/Receipts folder.
If you're able to publish from the other account then your primary account is suspect. It could be a preference file other than iWeb's. Here's how to determine if that's the case.
Trouble Shooting Preferences in Leopard
1 - Create a folder titled "Preferences A" on the Desktop.
2 - Open the working Preferences folder, HD/Users/your_name/Library/Preferences, and move the contents to the Preferences A folder on the Desktop.
3 - Make a duplicate copy of the Preferences A folder on the Desktop as a precautionary backup.
4 - With the working Preferences folder empty run the application again and determine if the problems is fixed.
NOTE: you may have to drag the contents of the working folder to the trash and empty if moving the contents to the A folder only copies them instead of moving.
5 - If the problem is fixed:
A - open the working Preferences folder (HD/Users/your_name/Library/Preferences).
B - Open the Preferences A folder on the Desktop, select all of the contents and drag them into the working Preferences folder.
C - When the Copy window pops up check the "Apply to All" check box and then click on the Don't Replace button as seen here.
6 - If the problem is NOT fixed, empty the working Preferencess folder and move the contents of the Preferences folder on the desktop back into it.
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Moving iweb site from one comuper to another

I just brought a new imac, i have been using my powerbook to work on my site, bu tnow i want to be able to work on my site on the imac as well. but i don;t know how to transfer my pages to the new computer? help please anyone

There is only one file that you need to move from your PowerBook to your new mac....it is named "Domain". You can find it on your hard drive in the /Users/yourname/Library/Application Support/iWeb/ folder.
1. Launch iWeb on the new mac at least once, then quit. This should create the default folder pathway and a blank Domain file.
2. Copy the Domain file from your PowerBook to the new mac and replace the preexisting Domain file in the same folder pathway as the original.
3. Launch iWeb and you should see your sites.

Moving iWeb site from one computer to another

Hello,
I tried looking for an answer to this, but couldn't find one that was specific to this question.
I have iWeb on my computer at home, but I've created a site on a friends computer (using iWeb) and want to add this recently created site to my computer at home. I know I can copy the Domain file, but if I put that into my iWeb folder at home, won't that overwrite all the sites I've already created?
My question is: is there anyway to add a previously created site on a different computer to my existing roster of sites created on my home computer?
Thanks!
Blair

Hi Blair,
You cannot combine all the sites into one Domain file, and you would not want to do this anyway, even if you could; and yes, if you place the other Domain into the same path on your home machine, you will replace the Domain file that is there now.
What you should do to manage both sites/Domains from the same machine is change the default location of the Domain files to a folder structure, and manage the Domain files from there.
Create a couple of folders and name them, "Home Domain" and "Friend's Domain", for example. Place the Domains inside of these folders, and when you want to work on sites within a specific Domain just open the respective folder and double-click on the Domain file inside. iWeb will open and you will see the sites contained in that Domain as you have always seen them.
You will be able to move back and forth between these Domains created on different machines very easily this way.
Mark

Since moving iWeb site my podcast won't publish to iTunes

Ok, I have just recently moved my iWeb site from MobileMe to LCN and they seem to be hosting it fine EXCEPT my podcast is no longer downloadable from iTunes. This is obviously cos it's still pointing to the old MobileMe address so, using iWeb to try and republish the podcast from the new site I get the message "We had difficulty reading this feed. Bad http result code: 404"
It seems to be the case that, since moving my site, I no longer have an rss feed to send to iTunes. I have asked LCN about this and I got this response:
"Unfortunately we are not able to assist with this functionality of the iWeb software - as the publishing to itunes via the iWeb software is not something over which we have any control or any advanced knowledge to be able to advise if this functionality is simply not possible if not publishing to the Mobile-Me service.
I would recommend raising this enquiry directly with Apple support as they should be more able to advise on a resolution to this problem."
Does this mean I have just moved my site to the wrong people and should use a different hosting service or is there something I can do here? Please help, I'm kind of lost here!

Web should create the RSS files automatically - there are links to them on the sites - and they should be at
http://thetrap.co.uk/web/Podcast/rss.xml
http://thetrap.co.uk/web/Event_Horizon_Crescent/rss.xml
(two separate podcasts) but there are no files at these addresses. The first thing to do is to check that these checkboxes are enabled in the Inspector:
though I would have thought the fact there are links to the feed would mean that these boxed were checked.
Then you should do a Publish all files from iWeb, using the FTP option in the publish pane. (If you had simply copied the pages over from MobileMe, that could cause problems; you need always to publish from iWeb).
If that doesn't do any good you have some ongoing problem in iWeb and the best place to ask would be in the iWeb Forum.

Transferring iweb site from 1 mobileme account to another

i need to transfer my iweb site from one mobile me account to another, but i dont want to buy it in HOPES that i can do it. I want to make sure i actually can.
anybody have experience in this?

Everything you made in iWeb is stored in a file on your hard disk.
You can find this file in it's default location.
../Yourusername/Library/Application Support/iWeb, the name of the file is Domain.sites2
You can freely copy/move this file to an other computer or an other user on the same computer with the other MobileMe account.
If you want to keep everything "as is" on your computer in iWeb and only want to change the MobileMe account: open System Preferences / tab MobileMe / 'log out' and 'log in' with the other account.
Kind regards,

Merge iweb sites from multiple user accounts on same computer

With the previous iweb version, my children created their own iweb sites on their own users, but all under my own .mac account. It worked great.
But now with the new "upgraded" iweb '08, that isn't allowed anymore.
So, I created a new user on our computer for all of us to use to maintain our multiple iweb accounts on.
How can I move multiple iweb sites from multiple users on the same computer into one user?

Each of the user's work in iWeb will be contained in a single file, Domain.sites2, which can be found in this location on the hard drive for each user account. You will need to copy all of these Domain.sites2 files to an external drive, or, at the very least, burn them to a disk to make them transferable from one user account to another. A flash drive also works great for this.
Once you have made all of these Domain files accessible from the new user account that you created, you will still have a formidable task ahead of you, i.e., publishing separate sites, from separate Domain.sites2 files, to the same .Mac account/directory. In other words, bringing all of these Domain files together for access by a single user account will not solve the problem. You may very well be able to solve the problem with things the way they are, but it will involve some shuffling of Site's files on the iDisk prior to publishing.
The method I'm going to give you has worked well for me. So far, here in the forums, I've read posts from (2) other users who were also successful. Conversely, I know of at least (3) other users who have been unsuccessful with this approach. I sure hope it works for you.
Open System Preferences and go to .Mac. Turn syncing off, if it is on, and leave it off.
Now, in Finder, navigate to the current Site files on your iDisk, following this path:
Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites/NameOfSiteFolder
Drag the Site folder that is named for your site, (not the directory Site folder), back one level on the iDisk, into the Web folder. This is where some run into difficulties--you may get an error message that the folder is "in use, and cannot be moved". I have never gotten this message, and am able to move my Site's folders around with no problem on the iDisk.
If you are successful moving the folder, choose one of your other accounts on your machine, launch iWeb, and Publish all to .Mac. The existing site on the server will not be deleted. Now, go back to the iDisk and move that site folder, (the one you just published), back one level, again, to the root Web directory. Publish your next site, from your next account.
When you are finished publishing sites, just move the Site folders back to their original location on the iDisk--Web/Sites/SiteFoldersHere. All sites will be accessible from a browser using the web.mac.com/username/nameofsite url.
It is important to use the Publish all to .Mac command in iWeb. A simple Publish to .Mac command will not put the correct index.html file in place on the server.
Post back and inform us of your success.
-Mark

How to get iWeb content from MobileMe

Hi,
I'm usually making web projects with Adobe programs, but my own (more or less blog) I did it with iWeb ... to try this tool.
Now I switched from iMac to MBP (yes, great present) and after a month I remembered this "iWeb project". Now when I start iWeb the only option is to choose a template, but I would like to connect to MobileMe account where I published my blog and work further on this ... is it possible somehow, or should I copy iWeb files from iMac to MBP?
Regards,
Matej

What you will need is the domain.sites2 file that resides in your User/Library/Application Support/iWeb folder on the iMac. Copy it to the same folder on the MBP, replacing the one that's there now, and you will be good to go.
If you want to work on the site from both computers this MacWorld article may be of some help: Managing an iWeb site from multiple Macs.
If you don't have the domain file on the iMac or a backup copy of it you'll have to rebuild the site from scratch. If the site is a true blog you may lose the comments associated with it. Chapter 2.3 of the iWeb FAQ.org site has tips on using some of the published files in the reconstruction of the site.
OT

Download iWeb site from .mac

Hello
I make most of my iWeb pages (ver 1.1) at home, but sometimes I am at my vacation home. I have iLife on both machines. Can I download the site I have made which is on .Mac to my second computer AND create new pages to be uploaded to .Mac? I have tried looking around for such a command but I can't find any. I realize that any pages I make on the second machine will have to be updated on my main machine.

PTakeshige wrote:
Can I download the site I have made which is on .Mac to my second computer...
No, because the published files on MobileMe (previously .Mac) cannot be opened in iWeb. Only iWeb's key Domain file can be opened in iWeb, so you can transfer that to another Mac as explained in these articles — the first also applies to iWeb '06...
_iWeb 2.0 Help (iLife '08) — Modifying your site from another computer_
iWeb: Publish to your MobileMe account from more than one computer
Managing an iWeb site from multiple Macs with Dropbox.
And see NOTE 1 HERE.

Hosting Your iWeb Site From Your Mac

If you don't have a .Mac account or you don't want to pay a monthly fee to host your new website you created with iWeb, you can use OS X's built-in Apache Web server. To accomplish this, follow the steps in the link below.
Hosting Your iWeb Site From Your Mac >>
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I was able to get this to work, using the same configuration you mention. The way I did it was to set up the IP address on my LAN using fixed static addresses, and to have the router "forward" the http packets to the Mac running Apache. In Network system preferences panel, you also need to set the DNS servers address to the address of the router on the LAN. In order to reduce hackers trying to break in, I don't use the standard port 80 for my address, but use some other 4-digit port (e.g., 8182), so my website address ends up looking like www.whatever:8182. Instead of "no-IP.com" I used the free dynamic name service from http://www.dyndns.com/. I also put the web content on a firewire disk, which requires a little editing of the httpd.conf file. This was another security precaution. Anyhow, its been working great -- not a single problem. Also, Weblock is great shareware that lets you assign login IDs on the web folders.

HT201528 I bought a new iMac. How can I move my iWeb site from my old computer to my new one. iWeb is installed on my new iMac.

I bought a new iMac. How can I move my iWeb site from my old computer to my new one. iWeb is installed on my new iMac.

iWeb stores the data in a Domain.sites2 file whose default location is shown here...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/iWeb-Tips.html
Move this to your new Mac.
See this page for info about using iWeb with OSX 10.7 & 8...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/mountain-lion.html

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