Open website on Iweb

Hello,
I've created a website on Iweb a couple of years ago. I've been uploading it normaly on my domain. My computer crashed a couple of week ago and now, I can't manage to open my site in Iweb (version 2.0.4). I have all the files and the folder with the site, but I don't know how to open it again in the Iweb application (I tried to drag-and-dropp it in the application but it doesn't work).
Could someone help me please ?
Thx a lot

That's because you can't - iWeb has no import facility so it cannot import an already published site - html as you have found.
Unfortunately, a published site is not a backup - it is the domain.sites file that you want and this can be found under User/Library/Application Support/iWeb/domain.sites.
Did you backup your domain file or anything via Time Machine - if so, you can get anything back, but if not, then you are looking at re-creating your site from scratch.

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