Multiple sites at .mac??

Hi there.
I have a few sites, home, kid, hobby etc etc
I also have a few external domain names.
Is it possible to keep my dbp_1999 mac site as well as having some of the others 'hosted' by Mac using the cname route?
Ideally want to use iWeb to maintain the sites and publish seperately to .mac...
I just can't see how to get it to work ;-(

In iWeb, you can maintain more sites. The only downside is that iWeb can only publish everything to one .Mac address. Let's say you have 3 sites you want to maintain, named Personal, Hobby and Family. You can do that with iWeb, but as soon as you publish, your sites will be uploaded to your .mac addres, resulting in the following website URL's:
http://web.mac.com/yourname/Personal/Welcome.html
http://web.mac.com/yourname/Hobby/Welcome.html
http://web.mac.com/yourname/Family/Welcome.html
If you just type in your main URL: (http://web.mac.com/yourname) you will be directed to the site that is mentioned first in the list on the left in iWeb.
A second way to do things is to publish all sites in a folder on your harddisk and to upload every site to a separate non-.Mac domain. You can upload everything in the folder "Personal" to one domain, "Hobby" to another, etc.
If you want to publish to different .Mac addresses, I recommend creating additional user accounts on your Mac, one for every additional .Mac address you want to publish to.

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I have a question, I currently use two different .mac sites (one for my school and a personal site). However, the last time I published my school site and then switched accounts (under system preferences) and then opened iWeb to work on my personal site, my school site is shown, with no hint of my old personal website. Is there a way that I can fix this? Am I doing something wrong?
Thanks!
Kyle

Hi Kyle,
iWeb always opens the website you edited during the last session.
If you edited the schoolsite during the last session this is the site iWeb is gonna open when you reopen it next time (no matter what .mac account you have in System Preferences as the domain.sites2 files aren't linked to it).
To open the personal site you have to find the domain.sites2 file of that site and double-click it to have it showing up in iWeb. By closing and reopening iWeb that site will show up.
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Multiple Sites, Multiple Domains, one .mac account?

So, is this possible? Can you create multiple sites in iWeb, save them to a .mac account, and then purchase domain names for each of those sites and have one assigned to each? I'm assuming no, but I'm seeing if someone knows how or someone has some workaround to keep it on .mac, but have multiple domain names for my sites?
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So, is this possible?
No.
Can you create multiple sites in iWeb, save them to a .mac account, and then purchase domain names for each of those sites and have one assigned to each?
Yes and no. While .Mac does offer Domain name hosting in the form of a CNAME alias, only one Domain name is available per .Mac account. .Mac is not a registrar for multiple Domains. You can host multiple sites on your .Mac account, but if you desire a 'Domain name' for each site, you will need to purchase the Domains from a registrar like Yahoo, GoDaddy, 1&1, etc, and then forward these Domains to the appropriate sites, hosted on your .Mac account.
I'm assuming no, but I'm seeing if someone knows how or someone has some workaround to keep it on .mac, but have multiple domain names for my sites?
The "workaround" would be to utilize Domain forwarding from a Domain name registrar, using the .Mac urls for the forwarding address(es).
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http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/central/
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http://www.mozilla.org/en-US/plugincheck/
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Managing multiple sites in different iWeb versions - PLEASE HELP!

apnewbie/cyclosaurus/roddy/old toad (and any others more knowledgeable than i):
i've run into a bit of a pickle. i am hoping someone can help straighten me out. i am about to jump out of a window. here's the rundown:
(for starters, i have a .mac account and am publishing to .mac.) i created a site in iWeb 1.1.2 on my work computer (mac book pro). worked great, really lovely. thought to myself, "hey, i'd like to create another site from home, but i don't have iWeb at home (powerbook G4) - i should buy iLife 08 so i can build these things from home and not have personal files on my work computer."
so: i had a site that i created within 1.1.2 with files written to iDisk. i purchased iWeb 08 and would like to have another site, but this one is being created in 2.0. i also am using a personal domain name this time around bought with google apps and hosted by godaddy. i published the new work in progress for a test run and...you guessed it...my original 1.1.2 site was rewritten by the 2.0 site. and the 2.0 site comes up as the standard google search page for domains that aren't up and running. whooopsie.
sorry for the lengthy intro, but that's the background. i guess my specific questions are:
1) i want to be able to maintain multiple sites from iWeb 2.0...can i open my 1.1.2 domain file in 2.0 and successfully bring that site into 2.0?
2) what is the most efficient and easiest way to get both of these sites running in 2.0? right now i have two domain files (created on two different computers).
3) for domain management, is it best to move from the iWeb folder in my home library to different folders (one for each site, with separate domain files, and my 2.0 domain file is NOT called domain, it's the name of the site) to another location? (and of course, i will back these up just in case.) and when i want to update a site, i just open that individual domain file, right? or will these sites publish over each other?
please help. i am at my wits end. i'm sure this is a relatviely simple issue, but i'm new to iWeb.
thanks, thanks, thanks for your help guys.
joojy

joojy,
Welcome to the forums!
First of all, your original 1.1.2 site may not, in fact, have been overwritten. It is quite possible that the site remains in it's position on the iDisk, Web/Sites/iWeb/YourSite, but because you published to the iDisk (.Mac) from 2.0, a different index.html file has been placed in the root level Web directory which is causing the 404 error. Navigate to the directory on the iDisk, using the Go menu in Finder, and look to see what is actually there. Follow this path:
Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/YourSiteWillBeHereIfYourLuckIsGood
If your site is there, great; if it isn't, it's not really a problem because hopefully you still have the Domain.sites file on the MacBook Pro and you can republish it if necessary. If it is there, you can modify the index.html file on the iDisk using a text editor and get your url redirected back to where it should be.
Second, do not open your 1.1.2 Domain.sites file with 2.0 until you have a backup of this Domain file. External drives are best for this. Assuming the backup is in place, launch 2.0, choose the Domain.sites file, and click on "update". It will be updated to a Domain.sites2 file. If the site looks ok then continue on with editing/publishing.
Skipping to question (3), by all means, abandon the default location of the Domain.sites file in the Home folder's Library and get accustomed to keeping your Domain files in their own, respective folders. When you want to open one just double-click it.
You are going to encounter difficulties publishing multiple sites in 2.0.2, unless you keep all of the sites in a single Domain file. 2.0 is publishing to a different directory on the iDisk than 1.0; it publishes to /Web/Sites/, as opposed to /Web/Sites/iWeb/. Publishing a site from a separate Domain file erases previously published sites. I have been able to publish multiple sites, from multiple Domain.sites2 files, by mounting the iDisk and actually moving the Site folder back one level, into the root Web folder, and then publishing. When finished, I move it back again. If you have RSS feeds you will probably get a 'file in use' error. The alternative, (other than keeping all sites in a single Domain), is to publish the site to a folder and then manually drop the Site folder into the Web/Sites/ directory on the iDisk. Of course, some .Mac functions are lost when publishing this way.
Work through this info and post back.
-Mark

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?

Multiple sites, different computers

I have set up multiple websites on my original iMac using iWeb08. I just purchased a MacBook Pro with iWeb09 and would like to do one of two things: 1) Manage all my sites on each computer or 2) Manage "site1" on the MBP and "sites2-4" on the iMac. I am publishing all the sites to my MobileMe account.
It looks like I can copy my original Domain onto a USB Drive and then transfer it to the MBP and edit there. But then I need to make sure I always bring the USB drive back and forth and replace the Domain file each time before I make any changes. Sure that will work, but seems a little annoying and time consuming.
So my question is would it be best to separate the sites into separate Domain files and load them individually from each computer? or just maintain each site on each computer? Can I even publish to MobileMe from two different places like I am thinking?
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Do these sites have domain names associated with them?
If you publish multiple sites from separate domain files to the same MMe account the last published site will be the default for any domain name using the CNAME method and will be the default URL for that MMe account: http://web.me.com/YourMMe_AccountName/.
The full URL to each site will work: http://web.me.com/YourMMe_Account_Name/SiteName.
Are those computers linked together on a local network? If so you can just log into the primary computer which houses the domain file from the other computer and work on the domain file. Or, if you have an external HD connected to any of the computers, put the domain file on it and set up access so both computers can reach it.
There is another possible method using DropBox: Old Toad's Tutorial #21 - Managing an iWeb site from multiple Macs with Dropbox.. It's worked for me on a simple site. But one user reported photo pages not getting updated on one computer. It does take a while for the other computer to be updated as it has to be on and connected to the internet. Just proceed with caution till you're sure there's no lagging in the updating.
OT

How do you setup multiple sites to allow for code promotion?

I am somewhat frustrated with the single site flow of the Dreamweaver Site Manager in helping me manage a full development to production code cycle. Ideally I need to have multiple sites managed by Dreamweaver that are just different stages in the code lifecycle. Currently DW only supports local_file -> production. Instead I need (and this is sort of standard for software product systems) to have my local sandbox, a test site, a beta site and a production site.
In the normal dev cycle I would work in my sandbox and have DW synchronize with my test site ( allows scripts that need a full server to be tested in case my local machine is not running a full server ). I can do this today with DW. When I am ready I want be able to have DW synchronize with my beta site (might very well be on a different server via FTP) so that my users/customers can review, test and approve the changes. When everyone has signed off I then want DW to promote this code to the production site.
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turingtest, I do have a couple questions.
Number one, does everyone in your family only sych their ipods from only 1 computer? If everyone only uses itunes from 1 computer I can see how that will work. But what if kids want to use itunes for windows? Will "Home Sharing" allow all their music purchased on the MAC, to be also displayed on their itunes for windows laptop? I noticed you have PCs and also an ipad. How do you manage your family's music on these devices?
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I sort of glommed on to the end of the thread "meta and google-ing...i give up," but I'll start a fresh post here with this:
I have three sites in iWeb, all of which have their own registered Go Daddy domain names and are forwarded to .mac without masking. I followed James Tseng's instructions and successfully submitted to Google and verified my "www.mac.com/user/iWeb" url.
I also successfully uploaded a site map for one of my sites (let's just call it Site 1), which is in my iWeb folder (not the Site 1 folder).
My question: I assume I can create separate site maps for Sites 2 and 3. Do they also go in the same iWeb folder as the first one? Is that possible if they're all named "sitemap.xml" or do they have to be given different names?
Also... if I want to submit these three sites to other engines like MSN and Yahoo, can I submit the forwarded domain names, or will these engines not follow the forwarding to my .mac url?
If that's the case, is it best to submit the single "www.mac.com/user/iWeb url" as I did with Google, or should I submit each site's .mac url separately?
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<As posted in the the other thread...>
Hi Mitch....
I hope you've been finding all this helpful so far! It's always fun to see just how much feedback you can get from Google. Sort of gives you a feeling that "you've arrived". haha.
Regarding your question about sitemaps and multiple sites.... My strategy is this... I like to give Google sort of the broadest catch that I can. That's why I really suggest to people that they register the most general URL... http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb/ . You see how that really leaves the door open for the possibility of multiple sites, without having to register multiple sites. Google really doesn't care that you call them separate sites...to Google they appear as part of the same site...with the same base verified URL.
So with that registered URL, there really is only one place where the verification file and sitemap.xml file can go. And that place is in the iDisk/Web/Sites/iWeb/ folder. And there is really only a need for a single verification file and a single sitemap.xml file, no matter how many sites you have. The point here isn't telling Google that you have more sites...it's just about telling Google that you have more LINKS in the site that it already knows about.
So how do you do this? Just spider your new site or gather the links in your own way and then copy and paste the links (just the links section...not the first two lines or the last line of the code) into the sitemap.xml file that you have already submitted before. Then resubmit it to Google.
Does this make sense? Let me know what you think.

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Dear Expert,
I have a question about the deployment of IPv6 on two different site and the requirement is that client may need to auto switchover to another site while one of the ASR1002 is failure. I have using two different prefix on two sites with IPv6 stateless autoconfig like above diagram. Different prefix used for each site due to each site should use there own IPv6 prefix for Firewall Stateful(Default gateway point to local site firewall only). Client will retrieved two IPv6 addresses at the same time and it seems workable on Vista PC and Mac(Mac haven't select the High DRP one but work fine) and I haven’t try for other mobile device (have WiFi device for vlan100). Is it a valid solution? Any other solution for multiple site deploy IPv6 with Firewall no NAT enabled?
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Multiple sites-Use both versions?

I have 3 domains, removed into separate folders. I have backed these up.
1. School domains-1 active classroom site/1 from last year I copy entries from
2. Teacher Support domain-a site I created to help teachers at my school
3. Personal site with photos
Using “Open With” I upgraded the personal site to 2.x. IWeb 2.x is great for photos. When I upgraded the domain using 2.x it works fine.
I can’t convert #2 above, as it is made with an 11Mystics theme and the blogs just disappear. The entries show in iWeb, but the main blog page with the RSS feeds is empty. I have yet to try deleting the RSS folder and republishing. Using 11Mystics beta for my theme and installing themes and thumbnails doesn’t work well.
I would be happy leaving #1 & 2 in iWeb 1.x, but when I publish one will render just fine in the browser and the other always gets the error page. Sometimes they alternate.
Has anyone been successful publishing multiple sites using both? Are there any 11Mystics users who have been successful in upgrading? I’m using Aerolite Silver. Thank you for your time.

I'm publishing to .Mac Thanks for the information. I may give it another try. I effectively do as you do. I have an iWeb folder that has folders for each website. One will have a regular 2.x domain - the other will open the domain with iWeb 08.
I'd convert everything, but I put so much work into my resource site (06 version)
http://web.mac.com/dontruett/iWeb/RSTchr/Home/Home.html
I could duplicate all of the theme pages I tweaked and use them in 2.x, but for the disappearing blogs. I may try deleting the RSS folder from iDisk and publishing again in 08. It's just so time consuming to experiment with 3 domains, then revert back, as publishing takes forever.

Multiple sites on iweb

Okay, let me try to explain just one more time...
I currently have a website published through iweb and I used godaddy to set up my personal domain name for the website. I now would like to create a totally different site using a completely different domain name. My question is, Is it possible for me to have one mac account and have multiple sites using different domain names?
And I do know that it's possible to go into iweb, click file and then click new site. But once I click publish it sends me right back into my original site that I created first. Am I missing a step? Please help!
-Noel

But once I click publish it sends me right back into my original site that I created first.
It just looks that way, don't pay any attention to it. Your second site is located at
http://web.mac.com/username/sitename

Clarify posting multiple sites...

I have searched the forum high and low without getting a clear and definite answer to this question.
Basically, I want to use iWeb to build and maintain several web sites. I have had success separating the sites using iWebSites. All I want to do is use my existing .mac server space to host several sites, which will be accessed by entering in a purchased domain name, which will forward you to that address. However, I do want one web site to be available for access directly (web.mac.com/username). The others can have a long and rediculous address, as they will be accessed by entering in another name anyhow.
Whenever I publish one site or the other, it overwrites the one I previously posted. I can't figure out how to get web.mac.com/username to count for one of the sites, and then the subsites to be at other addresses.
Is this possible using iWeb 1.1.2?
I would appreciate any help. Thanks a lot.

o.k. firstly, the only reason for using one of these multisite domain programs is if you need to keep the sites separate due to size and the added time it takes to publish when there are lots running at one time or if you are publishing them to separate webspaces. Otherwise iWeb is quite happy running more than 1 site all open at one time in the application. they are listed down the main panel on the left.
I have created a few sites from one Domain file (iWeb file) that when published all upload to .mac in 1-click, but are basically separate sites see links for examples on my .mac account.... (1 even has a separate password)
http://web.mac.com/dandid/iWeb/Site/
http://web.mac.com/dandid/iWeb/links%20page
http://web.mac.com/dandid/iWeb/654/
http://web.mac.com/dandid/iWeb/bunyan/
If all your sites require .mac features, or you want to have them ALL hosted on .mac (regardless of the original website address) then the best way is simply to keep all of them in the same iWeb Domain, i.e. just add new sites within the iWeb application, just as apple intended.
In addition to multiple sites in my main .mac area, I personally have a number of separate sites run using separate Domain files.
from these I publish to various places on the net by publishing to a local folder and using and ftp program to upload the HTML files. I only use these from separate Domain files so that I can make changes to some of the small sites without having to wait for iWeb to generate HTML for loads of sites at once.(my mac is slooooow)
You can open any number of separate sites either by manually moving the domain file within your library/application support/iWeb or by using one of the 'multisite' programs to manage them for you. Then you can use the 'publish to folder' command to prepare all the web ready html files etc to a local folder on your mac. You will then manually upload the files to your sites.
I'd read the help files for how apple actually intends you to manage more than 1 site if you still don't get it, because if you want them all on .mac anyway, it works pretty well just as they planned it.
or mail me if you want more help - [email protected]
hope this helps

Multiple Sites - oh help

I've read a bunch about CNAMES & multiple sites, but am as lost as ever. So I've got www.ProjectReclaim.com that points (via my server, iPower) to my .mac account. Then I made a "New Site" that is supposed to go to www.theStudioPass.com (which is my default .me site). I set up the CNAME thing for theStudioPass.com through iPower. But something is simply not working.
Ok, bottom line: Any guesses why I can't even access my .me site? http://web.me.com/leah82
In the event that I've made any sense and you can wade through my illogic, thank you.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. If you plan to have multiple sites published to your MMe account and domain name forwarding it might be easier to manage if the sites were in separate iWeb Domain.sites2 files to facilitate editing and publishing them independently of each other. I use iWebSites to manage multiple sites, over 45. 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 and move it to another location on your HD until you're satisfied the separation process is completed and what you want.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.
OT

Can you publish only 1 site on .Mac

I have several websites on iWeb and only want to publish one site on .Mac. Can you do this?

As Jim MacCormaic describes, and Apple's tech doc, the Domain file that was most recently double-clicked is the default file used if iWeb is subsequently launched directly from the iWeb application icon, as when launching from the Dock. But note that the file must always be named exactly "Domain", so you'll have to keep them in different folders, for example, with the folder names describing what they are for.
To continue working with multiple Domain files from the Dock conveniently, you could drop the Domain files onto the Dock, and click on them in the Dock instead of directly on the iWeb app icon, to launch iWeb. That would allow for quick switching. Maybe you could create an alias to the "Domain" file, give the alias a better name, and then drag the alias' icon into the Dock. But those icons have to be in the documents area of the Dock; they can't be dragged into the apps area.
Another option might be one of those UI tweaking applications. I seem to remember one that added to the popup menus that appear when clicking on app icons in the Dock, including adding recently used/opened documents. That would allow you to right-click on the iWeb application, and select your Domain file, or maybe more distinctly-named aliases, from the popup menu. This would require adding the UI tweaker to your system, and running it at login, but it would keep your Dock clean, at just the one iWeb app icon.

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