Multiple Domain files, Multiple Sites, Publishing Problems

I am frustrated beyond belief. I'm an old hand-coder, coming from BBEdit, but I've been using iWeb almost exclusively since its release, because it really is a great product for quick, easy, stylish designs.
However.... In that year, my collection of sites has grown to 12. Discovering that iWeb becomes a major dog when dealing with that much material, I found and followed the instructions - today - to separate my sites into individual domain files, and edit them individually. iWeb is much snappier and publishing goes much more quickly.
The problem? Well... after editing, "Publish to .Mac" rarely works. Only "Publish All to .Mac" will get the site online (something about an error with the index.html file). But "Publish All to .Mac", I've just discovered, DELETES the other websites that I have previous published. All day I've been doing updates and publishing my sites, only to discover that the uploads have all been wiped out by the most recent one!
I'm a big enough fellow to admit that my knowledge isn't total nor perfect - so please, would someone out there with a better handle on iWeb than I (preferably someone who actually deals with multiple domain files rather than someone who thinks they can guess the problem) please clue me into how we make use of this program non-destructively?
I suppose I could always publish everything to folders and upload it to my iDisk (which itself remains ridiculously slow after how many years now? Sheesh!), but that detracts from the elegance of the .Mac integration, the counter features, - not to mention the little fact that I'm a paying .Mac customer and this darn thing should just work, no?

Mark:
I was where you were also. You should give iWebSites a try. It's to iWeb what iPhoto Library Manager is to iPhoto.
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 Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want. Just remember to put a copy of your current Domain.sites file somewhere else on your HD in case the splitting gets messed up. It went very smoothly for me and I now manage 19 or so sites.
Do you Twango?

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Multiple Domain Files

A lot of questions are asked in this forum about managing multiple domain files and splitting existing ones.
The "solutions" seem to be either to use an application such as iWebsites or to duplicate the domain file into folders and delete the appropriate sites.
When I first loaded iWeb '08, I kept a copy of a blank domain file and use this to start a new site by duplicating it into a new folder and double clicking it to launch iWeb.
My main reason for doing this was to overcome the inability of iWeb to create a new domain file from the "File" menu.
I have stayed with this, not only for speed and convenience, but because I read this...
http://11mystics.com/blog/2007/09/08/how-do-you-manage-multiple-domain-files-for -iweb/
and also this....
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6261141&#6261141
These comments are from two people who dig deep under the hood of iWeb and whose opinions I respect and have taken to heart.
Is this the best way to create new domain files?
Am I being over cautious?
Am I totally deluded?
The last question is open to psycho therapists only !

UUIDs are like finger prints in Domain.sites2. There are ways to start new Domain.sites2 without duplicate an existing one:
1) move the last accessed Domain.sites(2) from its location, or rename the holding folder.
2) change com.apple.iWeb.plist setting, I post the procedure here:
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=6007612&#6007612
This can be done with AppleScript or Unix shell script. Doing so will get you new Domain with new UUID.
When you duplicate a blank domain, you also duplicate its UUIDs, as of now there seems to be OK as long as you keep domain separate. However, we do not know what Apple will do in the future releases, here is UUIDs usage progression in iWeb:
We did not see much of them in iWeb1, because iWeb1 Domain.sites is flat structure.
We see UUIDs everywhere in iWeb2 Domain.sites2, from top to bottom; every page has it own UUID.
So, I would be skeptic about having duplicate UUIDs; even in separate domain packages.
I ran a cross this when a friend asked me to merge his Domain.sites2 packages, and I thought people should be aware of it.
I ended up write Applescript applications to merge, extract sites and clean existing Domain.sites2 package by assign new UUIDs.

Anyway to create a domain file from the published site?

My friend and I both use iWeb. She created a site and her hard drive has since crashed. I am trying to see if there is a way to make a domain file from what's on the web without going through creating a page again. Any ideas?

Welcome to the discussions. No, there's no way to create a domain file from the published site. If she doesn't have a backup of her Domain file (e.g. via Time Machine), paragraph 2.3 of this FAQ page 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
And it may be an opportunity to switch to another site building tool — see this post:
_Domain file - iWeb becoming a headache_

Multiple domains and multiple IPs in the same MacMini Server

I am sure that this topic has been faced already but I cannot find enough information to really dig into a solution.
I have a macmini server with two IPs let say x.x.x.12 and x.x.x.13 .
The server is set up on the first IP. It has his primary zone, machine record, mail aslias and www alias.
Lets call the server domain server.domain1.com
Everything works fine I have a couple of local users and a couple of LDAP users. Just to test the machine setup.
I can send and receive emails using any of the users as [email protected]
Now I would like to have another domain, domain2.com in the same server .
The final goal is to have users under different domains. They have their own email box, calendar, etc.
It will be preferable that I can share the same username with different domains. But I can live without that option.
My first test was to have the second domain called server.domain2.com using the second IP. x.x.x.13 .
For that I created another Primary Zone with domain2.com as machine record of x.x.x.13 . To use the second IP I simply create another Ethernet interface on the macmini.
In the Mail -> Advance settings I added the host aliases as well as virtual hosting domains for domains2.com.
With this setting I can send emails as [email protected] or [email protected] but when I replay to their messages I get a "Relay access denied" error from server.domain1.com .
I also tryed another domain pointing to x.x.x.12, the same as server.domain1.com . I did not create any extra Primary Zone but the local host aliases and the virtual hosting domains.
Same issue. I can send but I get a "Relay access " error.
As you might notice I am a novice on servers settings. I just try to recreate a similar environment common to Virtual Hosting providers for my own website playground but I cannot cut through this email configuration obstacle.
Any significant meaning that can be leading me to learn how to do it will be very very appreciated . (beside lynda,com tutorials that I followed already but do not mention multiple domains for mails).
Thanks

the problem I try to solve is to manage multiple domains in one MacMini Server.
Having two IPs is secondary.
I would like that each domains has his own users with emails, iCals, Wiki and web sites.
The main problem is having emails to work for any additional domain beside the default one on the machine IP.
I also got an additional IP address to be used on the same server hoping that it make things easier but apparently is making things more difficult.

Re-create domain file and site

My domain file is corrupted and not allowing me to publish correctly.
How do I re-create my domain file and site without having to start over again?

Naka! wrote:
My domain file is corrupted and not allowing me to publish correctly.
Are you sure it's corrupted? +"A lot of problems can be solved simply by..."+ Read more in the "Fix iWeb" section here:
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/WebMusic/iWebTips.html
Naka! wrote:
How do I re-create my domain file and site without having to start over again?
Paragraph 2.3 of this FAQ page 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
And although the following Apple doc talks about iWeb '08, I believe it also applies to iWeb '06:
_iWeb ’08: Backing up your Domain file_
There's also this: http://www.shirt-pocket.com/SuperDuper
...which will be invaluable when your Mac's internal HD eventually fails. As someone quipped:
"There are only two types of hard drive: Those that have failed, and those that are about to fail."
...This free SMARTReporter may give you an early warning of impending hard drive failure.

Messed with multiple Domains... Big Problems

I have posted on this topic because I was experiencing very slow save times and publishing times.
I had 20+ sites created in iWeb, many of which have large photo galleries.
Wanting to solve this problem, I tried a couple of techniques to start with a fresh Domain.
I tried duplicating the existing Domain and deleting the sites I didnt want in Domain 2.
Problem was this retained the massive "Albums" folder within iWeb package content.
The sites didnt show in the iWeb interface but the new Domain was giant (1.9 gigs) and saving and publishing still took forever.
So I went into the Domain 2 package contents and deleted the Albums for the sites I didnt want in my new Domain.
Well then Domain saved and published nice and fast as I expected it to.
Thing is...
Now all of my previous sites from the old Domain are broken when you attempt to view them on the web.
They all look fine when I look at them in iWeb by opening their files in iWeb.
My original Domain is still intact where I have stored it on my computer.
When I check my iDisk, I can see that my old websites are there but their Media folders are completely empty.
Sooo... how do I fix this situation?
I realize I brought this upon myself but I was trying to do what I have got to believe is doable.
I want to have multiple Domains so I can work more efficiently.
Surely I dont have to be saddled with updating a 1.9 gig Domain every time I publish to iWeb.

You're only putting the domain file(s) in the trash to prevent iWeb opening them so that it will be forced to created a new blank domain file. Then drag it out and store it in a folder.
Individual domain files are opened in Iweb by double clicking them.
Splitting domain files with multiple sites is not recommended. You're only leaving yourself open to file corruption and other problems some where down the line.
Start each new site on a blank domain file and store it in its own folder.

Consolidate multiple domain files

Back in iWeb '08 I used the trick of swapping the domain.sites files for separate sites into iWeb's default folder. This would allow me to use .Mac for one, FTP for another, etc.
Now that '09 supports these multiples methods, would anyone be able to help me merge them all into '09?
Any help would be appreciated.

You can use iWebSites to merge sites. However, be sure to have backups of all domain files until you're satisfied the merge went OK and you can edit and publish the sites satisfactorily.
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"short" urls and multiple domain files

In http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=655367&tstart=0,
Apnewbie said:
"If you have separate sites with separate Domain files and published separately to .Mac, they will be listed on your iDisk in alphabetical order and your short .Mac url will point to the one at the top of the list on the iDisk."
I'm thinking about splitting my domain file, as my sites are growing large and it is time consuming for iWeb to recreate all the pages when I've only changed one site. I'd like to keep a particular "site" (consisting of one page with links to my other "real" sites) at the top of the list so it is always what appears when folks go to my short url. Are than any non-alphanumeric characters that I can use at the begin that won't cause problems for browsers?
Does this mean that if my preferred "top site" is in domain file A and I publish domain file B after I've published domain A, the "top site" will still be the site at the short url?
Also, can somebody please remind me again how to use a link in the forums here but have text other than the full url show up? I think I've done it before, but I've forgotten.
iBook G4 14 in Mac OS X (10.4.7) iMac 400 MHz G3 OS 9.2.2

Apnewbie said:
"If you have separate sites with separate Domain
files and published separately to .Mac, they will be
listed on your iDisk in alphabetical order and your
short .Mac url will point to the one at the top of
the list on the iDisk."
I spoke too soon on this and a correction is needed. When you publish to .Mac using individual Domain files, your short url will point to the most recently published index.html file, which will then take you to your most recently published site. I tested this just prior to that last statement in that post and my browser cache tripped me up here.
I'm thinking about splitting my domain file, as my
sites are growing large and it is time consuming for
iWeb to recreate all the pages when I've only changed
one site. I'd like to keep a particular "site"
(consisting of one page with links to my other "real"
sites) at the top of the list so it is always what
appears when folks go to my short url. Are than any
non-alphanumeric characters that I can use at the
begin that won't cause problems for browsers?
I don't think that's necessary; you can keep a copy of the index.html file which points to your preferred site and place it back on your iDisk after publishing any site to force your short url to point to the site of your choice.
Does this mean that if my preferred "top site" is in
domain file A and I publish domain file B
after I've published domain A, the "top site"
will still be the site at the short url?
Again, the short url will point to the most recently published index.html file in .Mac. Sorry for the confusion.

Can't find domain file, or load published site

I have a site published to mobile me - sitename- and i later made some changes that i didnt want to push live to mobile me, so i published to a local folder and changed the name to sitename_alt. I closed iweb and wanted to load the site that is live, but i don't see any file open command or how to load the mobileme published site.
I found my domain file but when i click it, it opens the sitename_alt site, yet the mobile me site is still on live on mobile me ! I take it there is no "save as" scheme like on every other application in OSX ? Have i lost my ability to work on my sitename mobile me live site ?

Publishing your site to a local folder on your desktop is not saving it - this is html and iWeb can do nothing with this as it has no import facility.
The only way to update sites is via your domain.sites file found under User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites.
If you don't have this file then you will have to re-build your site from scratch.

Multiple Domain Controllers, different sites, checking status for replication

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Is there a CMD / Powershell script to do so?
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Authentication - multiple domains with multiple accounts

Dear All,
Consider an environment where a user, Joe Bloggs, has an account on two Windows domains: DOMA and DOMB. DOMA is a domain that all users in the organisation are members of. DOMB is a domain used by a smaller subset of users. The user's
machine is part of the DOMB domain.
I'd like to deploy SharePoint 2013 on DOMA and have the user, logged on to their DOMB machine, seamlessly authenticate (through IWA) with SharePoint 2013.
So far, I've thought of the following solutions:
1. Build a trust between the two domains. Possible, but the AD information in DOMA is more up-to-date than that in DOMB and I'd like to use that to populate SharePoint user profiles. Also, DOMB is likely to be deprecated in the future.
2. Use WorkPlace Join. Unfortunately, devices are running Windows 7 and WorkPlace Join only works for devices running Windows 8.
I've wondered whether it's possible to map two accounts on separate domains together so that a user on DOMB can effectively masquerade as their corresponding user on DOMA when authenticating with SharePoint, but haven't come across a way of doing this, yet.
Any ideas? Or, am I completely mad?!
Thanks in advance.

1) Is your only option for seamless logon with IWA. It is not possible to map accounts "together" so-to-speak. SharePoint stores a reference to the user's SID, which must match the user making the request.
An ADFS trust might be another option, although that increases your deployment footprint and complexity.
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Multiple Program Files / Multiple Photoshop CS4 Programs

I hate this.
On a machine running Intel i7 processor (6G of Ram) I upgraded from XP 32 bit to WIN 7 (64). I was running an old version of Photoshop (maybe CS4) then (perhaps) reinstalled after the upgrade to CS4.
I have two Program Files folders and each has an instance of Photoshop:
Program Files\Adobe
   - Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit)
And,
Program Files (x86)
   - Adobe Photoshop CS4
I can only guess that when I installed Win 7, it kept the old CS4 and then I installed CS4 for 64 bit. If I go into Uninstall Programs and begin to uninstall the ONE instance of Photoshop CS4, I can tell that the one that is being executed is the Adobe Photoshop CS4 (64 Bit).
I'm at a point where the C drive is getting full, and to make matters worse (depending on your perspective) I have downloaded CS5 and would like to install it, but need to 'clean' up what I have first.
Not that anyone would have actually done all of this, but my inclination is to uninstall my ONE instance of CS4 - all programs in the suite. I don't know if that will get rid of the extra installations. There's also Lightroom, Premiere Pro, Midia Encoder, etc. in the Program Files (x86) folder In the folder where I think I am actually executing Photoshop, I only see Llightroom. That means that I'm executing Photoshop (and maybe Lightroom) in the Program Files folder and all the rest of the suite in Program Files (x86) folder.
So, the question is:   If I completely uninstall Adobe CS4 and there remains some Adobe programs in either Program Files folders, you think I can just delete them?
Any other suggestions?

I don't have a choice in uninstalling all of CS4 - regardless of where they reside. Hopefully, the Uninstall Program will figure it out.
If you hear a loud ARRGGGG from the Atlanta Area, it will be me putting a curse on the whole Windows World, not me biting on anything.
I'll report back unless the PC is dark, and silent (other than the spitting of sparks and flames from it's insides).
Sometime Later . . .
OK, all of the uninstalls seems to have uninstalled everything in all locations.
I still hate this.
Sometime Later Still
I still don't have enough space on C: to install - not according to Adobe Knowledge that says I need 24 GIG.
Any ideas about putting it on another internal drive?

PLEASE HELP!! I've used iWeb to create multiple sites, all published to third party servers. The very last site I made changes to is showing up in any domain file I open - despite their different names and locations on my iMac. I just switched to Lion.

Please HELP!! I just switched to Lion. I have created multiple websites using iWeb 3.0.4 and despite my having saved their 'domain' files in various locations and using different filenames, upon opening the domain files I keep getting the very last site I published. All the sites were published to third party servers. The domain files (still have a preview that look correct and have different file sizes) but keep going back to the last site published. HELP ME PLEASE!! Are the old files still available?!!

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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Manage multiple Domain.sites files

Is there any cool utility to manage multiple iWeb Domain files ?
In .Mac, is that possible to publish the site Site_A based on one Domain file and to publish just after the site Site_B based on another Domain file ?

XoruX
Take a look at this thread: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=414637&tstart=15
Cyclosaurus is the man when it comes to Applescripts, he just keeps churning them out!
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