Personal domain versus the baby photos

My apologizes if this question has been asked/answered before (I couldn't find it)
I've taken the steps to setup my newly acquired personal domain name to be hosted via dot mac. I plan on having this personal domain host specific public content but I don't want all the sites I create in iWeb to be hosted there. I still want the baby photos, etc., to have to have the regular http://web.mac.com/[YourMemberName] address. So, my question is, now that I've setup my personal domain, have I also inadvertently directed all my familyl sites to that personal domain? Can I publish some content to the personal domain while continuing to publishing other other content to my usual dot mac address.
Cheers
Colin

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 original Domain.sites files before starting the splitting process.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want to where I want.
OT

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Ok, I have a number of sites that I use through .mac, and now I have ONE of my sites that I want to use on a personal domain. When I set it to publish to a folder and put the address in, it will only do the FIRST of my sites, and it will only do it as a subdirectory, and not create it as the index file for the site.
Help!
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PS Yes the CNAME has been changed for the site, so it is talking fine with iWeb.

When I set it to publish to a folder and put the address in,
The address is only to make sure your RSS feed is correct.
it will only do the FIRST of my sites, and it will only do it as a subdirectory, and not create it as the index file for the site.
I'm not sure what you think should happen, but iWeb normally publishes all your sites, each in its own folder with the same name as the site has inside the iWeb app. It will also publish one index.html file alongside those folders, and this goes with the topmost site inside iWeb.
Before publishing to a folder, make sure the site you intend to upload via ftp is topmost in the iWeb site organizer. After publishing, upload the index.html file plus the folder which has the name of that site.

Can I make the personal domain go away?!

Problem: I played with the personal domain thing in the 2.0 phase of iWeb, and decided to wait until the update fixed things. I USED to have my GoDaddy URLS point to each of my various iWeb sites, which they still do. However, when I publish now, iWeb loads to that personal domain, and I can't make it stop. I never changed the CNAME or anything on my GoDaddy site, just went on .Mac to add a personal domain to the list.
Can I make iWeb STOP trying to load to that personal domain? I deleted it from the .Mac page, but iWeb still shows it at the bottom of the pane as a green dot followed by my email (domain). Now EVERY site loads to that domain, followed by /sitename.
Old domain: www.swatphysician.com pointed to
Old iWeb site: http://web.mac.com/macdaddymd/iWeb/swatphysician
New iWeb is www.swatphysician.com/swatphysician
I tried republishing the entire thing to .Mac after I deleted that personal domain from .Mac, but it did the same. What I want to do is go back to the old way... use my GoDaddy redirect to point to the various sites by their own personal domain names (www.76whs.com, www.76lancers.com, etc.).
Can I make iWeb forget it ever heard of my personal domain?!

I explored the possibility of setting up the personal domain feature, but was unable to get the support needed from my host to ensure that it would function properly. I'm considering simply using web forwarding to send people where they need to go. I added and removed the personal domain information from within my .Mac account and it had nothing to do with iWeb. Maybe I'm clueless on this, but that was my experience.
Anyone who has previously been pointing to their .Mac iWeb site will discover that all the addresses will change after upgrading to iWeb 2.0.1 version. At least, that was my experience. Blog entries have a completely new method for naming pages (old pages are given new URLs based on the new naming system). The entire site was under an iWeb folder (as you pointed out in your message). The new sites are located directly under your .Mac account name.

IWeb hanging at logging into MobileMe (Personal Domain Problem)

I've searched and searched for an answer to my problem all over the internet and these forums and keep coming up blank.
Apologies if the answer is somewhere and I've missed it.
It could be a wider problem with my MobileMe, but iWeb is where it first occurred.
I recently had my personal website forwarding to my MobileMe site, and was using the MobileMe webspace to host my site. I had set my personal domain (in MobileMe) to the personal website. Why I did this I'm not sure, as I wasn't actually using the external webspace, merely forwarding it to my MobileMe site.
However I then decided I wanted to create a new site and this is where the problems began to occur. When I tried to publish the new site, it seemingly tried to publish to personaldomain/new_website name/ which obviously didn't exist as there was no external webspace there.
I then decided to reset everything, get rid of the personal domain setting within MobileMe and just merely forward my external web addresses to my Me sites. Upon deleting my Personal Domain from the mobileme settings page and logging into iWeb, the website name next to my username was still my external website address, and iWeb seemed to think it was all still published (which it was, as when I went to my web.me.com/etc, my website was there) However I wanted to start from scratch and republish everything, so I deleted all the web/sites section from my idisk, and hoped I could republish everything (this could have been a mistake!)
Now when I try to publish, iWeb just hangs at logging into MobileMe and won't publish anything. iPhoto also won't upload new photo albums and neither will aperture. They just hang at syncing galleries.
I'm completely at a loss as to how to proceed. I've deleted preferences from iweb and also logged out of mobileme, put a fake name in and logged back in again (to clear the cache I think) and still iweb hangs. I've even tried creating a new user account and logging in there and still it hangs.
Apologies for the essay of a post, if anyone can help it would be greatly appreciated. Just some suggestions as to where to go would be helpful. I'm wondering if it's something to do with Keychains? I had a brief look in there but it all went over my head. This is the first problem I've ever had with my new mac, and being from a PC background, don't really know where to look to fix things.
Thanks in advance to people who even get through reading the entire post!

If stephen's suggestion doesn't help you might consider the following:
Source: http://www.macintouch.com/readerreports/mobileme/index.html#d30jul2008
Page Title: MobileMe
Date: Wednesday, July 30, 2008 9:06:25 AM
Jim Oase
After waiting a day for the rolling restore to happen, I called AppleCare because Apple had sent an email saying my service was back, and it wasn't. I still could send and not receive using Mail.
Here is what fixed it. Go to MobileMe (terrible name) in System Preferences, log out. Then enter a garbage name and password and try to log in. This apparently clears the MobileMe preferences. Then enter your real UserName and PassWord. For me this was lights on.
I am left wondering how long ago I could have had email had I known this preference reset scheme.
Although for a different MMe issue it will clear out the MMe login info so you can enter everything anew and give it a fresh start.
OT

Problems uploading published file to personal domain

I shared an event from iPhoto to iWeb, creating a photo-page for my event. It all looks good in iWeb. I then publish it to a folder, and check that folder.
Everything looks great there as well, but when I upload the folder to my personal domain via ftp, my photos can't be seen.
I have checked that all files are uploaded. I have tested both Firefox 2.0.0.11 and Safari 3.1.1, the site is not working in any of the browsers.
The site can be found at http://dropbox.perenstrom.com/lincon2008/gallery/ if anyonw wants to see how it looks.
Grateful for any advice on what to do.

Wyodor wrote:
There should be an index.html file in each directory.
http://dropbox.perenstrom.com/lincon2008/
That directory is not part of the iWeb gallery, those are the original files I uploaded for people to download them. Directory listing in that directory is handled by a separate .php-file.
Tom Gewecke wrote:
Are you totally sure that your image files are on the server in the right place for access from the gallery page? Could you provide the path to one of them?
It seems possible there could also be a problem with the javascripts being recognized. Does your server already have a scripts folder that might cause a conflict?
The filesize for the folder locally and the folder remotely is the same, so yeah. The path to one of the pictures is (my friend Mårten on the picture, say hello): http://dropbox.perenstrom.com/lincon2008/gallery/Site/LinCon2008_files/Media/DSC_5554/DSC5554.jpg
There shouldn't be a conflict, at least I can't figure out where that would be.
Cyclosaurus wrote:
2) Can't access .xml file, this is your real problem:
http://dropbox.perenstrom.com/lincon2008/gallery/LinConGallery/Site/feed.xml
http://dropbox.perenstrom.com/lincon2008/gallery/LinConGallery/Site/LinCon2008files/rss.xml
I think this is due to misconfigure MIME type.
Contact your host admin people.
Could you please expand and explain what you mean by that? The .xml-file can now be found at http://dropbox.perenstrom.com/lincon2008/gallery/Site/feed.xml - this is the same address as stated in the .html-file; granted it returns an error when read.
The feed-file works locally, so you're probably right when saying that there's something wrong with the server.
This problem seems to only affect the rss-files, and those shouldn't affect the gallery itself, right?
Directory listing has now been disabled.
Since last time I have moved the gallery up one level in the tree, this to make the feeds point to the right files, since this is the only thing I enter when sharing the gallery from iWeb. The gallery is now in the right position; the path I stated when sharing.

Personal Domain doesn't work properly: Forced to type "www".

Hey,
Recently upgraded to iLife '08 specifically for the Personal Domain feature.
I followed the steps and got it to use my domain name from Register.com.
The problem is, it only works if I type 'www' as part of the URL. Otherwise I get this error:
+"This domain is not configured for this service. Please contact the webmaster to have it enabled."+
As we all know, almost nobody actually types 'www' anymore (example 'apple.com' and not 'www.apple.com'). So the Personal Domain is actually rather useless since 90% of the people typing in my URL will get an error.
I already contacted Register.com and they suggested a paid forwarding service, which defeats the whole point of iWeb's Personal Domain. The other suggestion was to get, I think, my .Mac home page's IP address. This could be forwarded for free. However I don't know how to get that.
Should I track down tech support at Apple?
Has anyone ran into the same limitation?
Thanks in advance.

Well I did precisely that over a month ago.
BTW My domain name is aristomenis.com, and I do not use .mac for email.
As the CNAME, I already have "*" and "www" pointing to web.mac.com. Below is a representation of how I filled out the form a Register.com, where "{ }" represents the text fields I have access to:
{*}.aristomenis.com points to {web.mac.com}
{www}.aristomenis.com points to {web.mac.com}
{ftp}.aristomenis.com points to {aristomenis.com}
Register.com will not allow me to put "@" (or alternately nothing) in the field preceding aristomenis.com. Every time I try that an error page comes up saying "there is an error updating Zone records".
As you can see above, Register.com forces ".aristomenis.com" right after the alias field, which leads me to believe that a "." (a.k.a a period) must precede aristomenis.com to make a typed-in URL work.
For example, in my browser's address bar I can type in almost anything plus '.aristomenis.com' and it'll point to my .Mac site. However aristomenis.com without a period before doesn't work.
What am I missing? I spent an hour with Register.com's tech support and I'm pretty sure I filled out everything exactly as needed on their side. Utimately they said I need to contact Apple to get an IP address for my .Mac page and maybe we can Register.com can help me link it with a free version of their forwarding service.
Please help. I really don't see how iWeb's Personal Domain feature doesn't actually work properly. Especially with such a large registrar as Register.com.
Again thanks in advance.

About to buy a personal domain, any tips

I'm new to this and about to purchase a personal domain. Do I just buy the name or must I get a hosting package with it (some offer emails, 2GB storage etc). I assume the my .mac is the host but just want to make sure.
Any help appreciated.
Tony

Tony ~ Your assumption that your +".Mac is the host"+ is correct, so yes, you just need to buy the personal domain without the hosting package with it.
And unless you upgrade to a +.Mac Family Pack+ you'll have only one email address. A +.Mac Basic Membership+ comes with 10GB of combined email and file storage.
If you don't want .Mac to be the host you can:
1. Get the hosting package along with your domain name or...
2. Sign up with another host separate from your domain name provider.
Either way, when not using .Mac as the host, you would publish your iWeb site to a folder and then upload it to the non-.Mac host via +File Transfer Protocol+ (FTP) software. Here's a comprehensive list of Mac file transfer software:
http://www.macorchard.com/filetransfer/

My personal domain just links to my MobileMe, not my published site - any ideas?

I set up a personal domain via dreamhost to use for me MobileMe hostest iWeb site. I have published my website, and when I click "visit site" it takes me there, but to the web.me.com/blablahblah address. When I navigate to my domain address, it asks me for my mobile me username and password instead of taking me to the public site. When I enter those anyway, it just loads up me MobileMe homepage.
Any ideas?
Thanks!
SR

Have you carried out both stages of setting up Personal Domain? -
1. At your ISP, change the CNAME to web.me.com
2. At http://me.com/account , click Personal Domain in the sidebar and enter the domain name without the www.
It sounds as if you have omitted step 2. I'm assuming you haven't passwprd-protected your web site. Note that domain.com may work and www.domain.com not work, or vice versa, depending on how your domain name provider works.

Can't view my personal domain html hosted on .mac mobleme

I just set up a mobleme or .mac trial account because I am now using iWeb to redisign my web page. When I publish the site it gives me a message saying I can now view my web page at http://mywebdomain.com but when I click the menu to view it the web browser takes me to the adress but it is the .mac page and it says it doesn't exist. When I check my .mac personal settings the page is listed as my personal domain and the iweb file is listed in my iDisk file menu. so where is my site and how do I fix this problem?

Okay, so have you entered your domain name into the personal domain setting in your MMe account?
Have you been to your domain name registrar or hosting company and changed the DNS settings so that you can set-up CNAME to re-direct your domain name to MMe? If not you need to do this before you can view your site. It will be something similar to www, then pick CNAME from a drop down menu or fill in and then web.me.com and CNAME is set. It can take up to 24 hours to take effect though.
If you have not altered these settings then you need to for your site to be visible. However, you can still view your site by going to web.me.com/username/sitename. All sites can be seen like this even if you have set up a personal domain.

Set up personal domain - help needed

I followed the procedure and added my domain, configuring dot mac to use my personal domain. The domain is also correctly listen on the bottom of the iweb page.
I went to my provider and inserted the requested forward (cname) to web.mac.com
Now what happens is that if i enter in the browser my domain (www.mydomain.com) the common dot mac page appears: http://www.apple.com/dotmac/
But not the page i published using iweb.
When I click "show web site" after publishing in iweb Safari also opens the general doc mac page mantioned above.
If I click "visit" in iweb i got a wrong address in Safari "http://web.mac.comtestsite/" where "testsite" is the name of my site created in iweb.
What am i doing wrong?
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Loris

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Personal domain.... easy question for someone who has done it.. easy points

If i forward my www.vegasablaze.com to mobile me from go daddy and set up the personal domain in my mobile me account will my address bar read http://www.vegasablaze.com or will it read my mobile me site address? ie http://web.me.com/example/Site/Welcome.html? See once i posted my site to godaddy i lost my blog ability. But I dont want people to se my mobile me address. So I would like to forward to personal domain. but am afraid if it goes to my mobile me it would look unprofessional..

Personal Domain replaces the web.me.com/username part of the URL with the domain name, with the subsequent folder and filenames on the end, so that to take your example of
http://web.me.com/example/Site/Welcome.html
people entering http://domainname.com
would be taken to the welcome page and the URL showing will be
http://domainname.com/Site/Welcome.html
However note that when you do this the original web.me.com URL still works and is searchable by Google. Though casual visitors to your domain won't see the real URL, it's not difficult to find it.

Personal Domain Set Up

Hello,
Is anybody out there manage to set up there personal domain following the steps that mac tells you to do.......for me it's been more than 3 days and nothing has happen.....my url is www.rvassmer.com and my mac.ulr is http://web.mac.com/rvassmer/site
The other question is........If I mask the mac url in godaddy, would it bring problems with search engines to crawl my site?
Thanks

Easiest way is just copy you web.mac site path (http://web.mac.com/rvassmer/site), go to godaddy and access you account.
Go to your domain name, click on it and click the "forward" tab. Paste or type the web.mac address in and click ok.
Within a few minute or a couple of hours it will work.
I have three such account there and that's all I ever do.

Remove/Reverse Personal Domain

Hello, I would like to remove/reverse the personal domain name I mistakenly put up until I realized it was not what I wanted to do. Does anyone know how to do this. Thank you,
Advaitamusic

Do you mean remove it from your MobileMe account? If so, log into MME from System Preferences and go to the Personal section and then click on Personal Domain on the left side. Then click on the button at the right hand side that has Remove and it will disappear.
If you are uploading to hosting space with a 3rd party server, then just use Cyberduck and link to your hosting space and delete the pages of your site that you have uploaded and your site will no longer be visible.
As for the domain name itself, you will have registered this for a minimum of one year and if not two years. This will be registered to you, but you don't need to use it and just don't renew it when the time comes to do so.

Returning multiple sites from personal domain to iweb domain

I have a family web site that I've posted to my .mac account. I've been asked to update another web site for a preschool that had been created previously by another mac user. She emailed me the domain and I was able to open it and make edits. I created two separate folders to keep the domain files separate. A few problems have happened since:
First, I can still access my personal account in both iweb and via the internet, but the address that appears at the bottom of the page is now the preschool address. I want this account to remain hosted on my imac account.
Secondly, for the preschool, the site should be hosted on personal domain. The site does show up on the bottom of that site (the same now as my personal one). What I would like it to post a temporary version of the password protected revised site on my .mac account until I am ready to replace the one that is currently up.
So, I guess my biggest question for the moment is how do I return both sites to the .mac host until I am ready to upload one of them onto the preschool personal domain?
When I go to the iweb folder in my idisk I can not move the folders containing the separate sites.
I have read other posts regarding multiple domains and they have not fully addressed this issue.
Many thanks, Emily.

Was the other mac user using the personal domain (CName) feature of iWeb?
Were you using it as well with your family site?
This might be the problem, as you can only use the personal domain feature with one iWeb site.

Two websites-one with .Mac and one with .Mac using personal domain

Good Day All! I know I asked this before but I think the question got wrapped in with another and I don't see that it has been answered. If I overlooked it I apologize for the duplicate post.
I have a .Mac subscription with one published website already. I am working on another website now in iWeb but I want to publish it using a personal domain name. Can I do this? If so, can I keep them from being linked together?? Does that make sense? Thanks! quinlis

Aloha,
if you use CNAME both sites will be reachable using either the CNAME or the web.mac.com/username/ address
if you use Webforwarding entering the personal domain will get to the site you pointed the domain to
but that site will also be reachable through web.mac.com/username/sitename/
I'd recommend you to use webforward with cloaking/masking/framing in your case. Thus the site you want to have the personal domain for will show the personal domain in the browser and will also be reachable through web.mac.com/username/sitename/ but your other website will not be reachable through your personal domain.
Note that using masking google will not index the content of your pages using your personal domain if you're interested in that.
Have a look at the following page for further information on setup and knowing what's CNAME, Febforward, Webforward with cloaking
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_Domains.html
I guess the best way would be having a family account or two .mac accounts so you can set it up as CNAME and your other site would be published to another account or sub-account and thus not reachable using your personal domain.
Regards,
Cédric

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