Publishing error - iweb won't publish my site

I cannot get iweb 08 to publish my site. I get this error "Publishing error iWeb couldn’t connect to .Mac. Make sure your Internet connection works and try again." However, my iDisk updates just fine, so I must be connecting to .mac, right? Also, when I go to mac.com I'm able to sign in fine. Any suggestions? Thanks in advance.

Thanks. I tried that and it didn't work. It seems that the problem was caused by a quicktime video being too large. I re-rendered the video to a smaller size and it published just fine. Thanks for your suggestion. I appreciate it.

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IWeb won't publish my site, unspecified error

i've been trying for the whole day now to publish my iweb site
every time, it get half way through uploading then simply bums out
it says there was an error publishing the site
that a certain file couldn't be uploaded
it's a different file each time
i'm really annoyed that i'm paying for a service i'm not getting!
i'm using iweb 09 on a g4 emac osx 10.5.6
adsl 1500 kbps connection, only computer using the internet
all firewalls and virus programs disabled
can anyone please help!

MobileMess, lol, i like that
yes, the prob is in publishing, not iweb itself
that is, its a problem uploading to apple's webdav server
I have been able to publish my site, and this is how...
Create a new site in iweb
one by one, move each page across to the new site just by drag and drop
with each page, go File > Publish Site Changes
Once all files are moved over, the original site is automatically deleted
From iWeb that is, you'll need to delete the site folder through iDisk
effectively this publishes each page seperately
all links seem to be preserved quite well
my theory is that apple's server can't handle too many files in one upload
it's getting gunked up and timing out half way through the process
uploading each file seperately seems to solve this problem
once they're uploaded, small changes also upload ok
i have since found this issue prevelant in these forums
it seems to be a major issue with iweb, or more specifically, mobileme webdav
i seriously doubt apple is going to work on this issue for us
so for the time being, small uploads seem to be the answer
hope this helps!

IWeb won't publish my daughter's sites (multiple users; one computer)

Our daughters have their own computer, so I created two user accounts (one for each). They also each have their own MobileMe account (under a family plan).
Each has created a site in iWeb. However, I can't get iWeb to upload either site. Each time I click publish, it says "sign in to Mobile Me" and the system preferences window pops up. It seems to log in to the account, automatically. iWeb has a window open saying "Logging in" When I click to return to iWeb, that "logging in" window disappears and nothing else happens. Nothing is uploaded.
Even if I try again, it says "log in" again. I don't understand why they aren't logged in automatically, all the time, under their username and why iWeb won't upload anything.

Jim:
Try the following. Even though it's for a different problem, mail in this case, it has helped others with your problem;
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.
OT

IWeb won't Publish Site

Hi,
Everything works fine until I add a flash music video or any video to the page then it won't Publish. But if I remove the videos from the page it will Publish. (this is not an embed code but instead a link set up from the hyperlink menu when I click on the "inspector" dialog box.
Or should I instead use the embed code from my upload site?
Has this something to do with memory? I followed the advice that was posted on another "help" column to change the memory setting in the MobileMe page for iDisk, but that didn't work either.
iMac 24 10.5
4 gigs of ram

Hi,
Everything works fine until I add a flash music video or any video to the page then it won't Publish. But if I remove the videos from the page it will Publish. (this is not an embed code but instead a link set up from the hyperlink menu when I click on the "inspector" dialog box.
Or should I instead use the embed code from my upload site?
Has this something to do with memory? I followed the advice that was posted on another "help" column to change the memory setting in the MobileMe page for iDisk, but that didn't work either.
iMac 24 10.5
4 gigs of ram

IWeb Won't Publish Sites

I've built about 4 Sites using iWeb and it is an great, intuitive tool.
Lately however, iWeb just stopped publishing updated pages to my sites.
I haven't changed any settings and I'm publishing to a .mac account.
BUT I constantly get the pop-up asking if iWeb can use my Keychain. It doesn't matter how many times I click "allow" or "always allow" it keeps asking me the same question over and over.
OR sometimes it asks me to sign into my .mac account BUT I'M ALREADY SIGNED IN!!!
All help much appreciated,
M

Hey Thanks Bkenny,
When I open keychain I don't see .mac password on the login list.
I checked on my macbook and it seems to there, so I fixed it on my macbook.
I reset keychains on my iMac and still have the iWeb problem. I hoped the latest iWeb update might have patched the problem but I couldn't be so lucky.
Thanks again for the advice, all other suggestions most welcome,
M

Iweb won't publish for me???

Hi all,
I have published successfully a couple of times in the past and now for some reason, it won't publish at all. I tried starting the idisk sync option in the system pref's but it won't start and and error message comes up saying that i need to check my username and password but i'm already logged in? I read another post by Tom where he said to do a few things in the idisk pref's but it won't let me in to the idisk folder either and a message comes up saying my .mac membership is not set up but yet i just logged in before that......very confused! If anyone could advise me that would be great.
Thanks,
Dave.

Hi Jeannie,
Spoke to apple support. My site is now publishing again!!
Please follow the instructions below as this is what i did and it worked. It has to do with resetting your .mac preferences and also your keychain.
1) Click the Apple at the top left and select System Preferences
2) In the new window select the .Mac (in the internet and network section)
3) Click the "Sign Out" option
4) In the member name and password boxes, enter random characters (Numbers and letters) and hit the sign in button, this will say the log in is invalid
5) Now, enter your proper member name (do not [email protected], just your user name only)and then enter your password and sign in.
6) Open iWeb and attempt to publish your site
Let me know how you get on.
Dave.

IWeb won´t publish blog

I have my website made in iWeb, it works great for my use, I have my own domaine: www.everydayangels.me
However, I have a page called News! I don´t like how it works/doesn´t work, so I figured I use the blog tamplet for this purpose. But it won´t publish! Unknown error is the message I get. Anyone have a sulotion?
Thanks
Mon

You can probably get around it by publishing your site to a local folder...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/Publish-Website.html
... and then uploading with an FTP application...
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/Search-Engine-Optimization/Upload.html
This is not so easy as publishing with the iWeb FTP.

IWeb won't publish my website

Hi, very frustrated. Have spent two days designing my iWeb website, then when I finally click the 'Publish' icon, I get "Preparing to Publish..."
Then...
"An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/Site”."
GREAT. But iWeb won't tell me WHAT the error is, or what I need to do to try and FIX the problem! And I thought Apple and the iWeb software were supposedly so intuitive, easy and hassle-free...
Any ideas appreciated. Many, many thanks.
Frustrated in London
G4 867 Dual processor Silver Mac OS X (10.4.8)

Thanks for the quick response. I've read Heaton's
suggestions and tried publishing to a folder. Worked
fine. Does this mean the fault lies with .Mac, or
me/my Mac?
Adrian...
This is good news. The fact that you can publish to a folder means that iWeb is not encountering any troubles with your website... The error message that it is generating just lets you know where iWeb is encountering it's "internal error"...not indicating that there is a problem with that particular page, etc.
What you have to understand is that iWeb is a pretty "dumb" program. I mean, it's great...it lets you design pretty fantastic pages and all, but when it uploads to .Mac it is sort of at the mercy of the traffic on the Internet as a whole. And there is probably some programming in iWeb that says, okay, after you send a file to .Mac, this is how long you should wait for the confirmation. If network conditions are slower or fluctuating, that confirmation may not get to iWeb in a timely manner and iWeb reports out this error message....which is basically a timeout message. iWeb has to draw the line somewhere, I guess.
The best advice that I can give to you then is to keep trying....different times of the day, different internet connections, wired connections instead of wireless connections, etc.

IWeb won't publish to .mac

For the last 2 days, every time I try to publish iWeb to .mac, a box comes up asking for my password. I enter it, but nothing happens.
I think I may have an iDisk problem or a .mac login problem.
Someone please help. I need to republish asap!!!!!

I have encountered the same problems - my site was fine until yesterday when I decided to change it and now it won't publish.
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I'm using iWeb 06 and have not upgraded to the new one. I did install some software updates that come in automatically. I wonder if that might be the problem.
When I try to visit site - I get a download popup and my pages (name only appear on my desktop but they are blank and nothing happens when I click on the icon. Weird - weird - weird
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IWeb won't publish... HELP :)

Hey everyone. Everytime I try to publish from iWeb to my .Mac account it will only go so far. It will error out saying "An error occurred while publishing file 'x.mov'." Where x is a different file each time, it could also be many other types of files.
I have restarted the computer, and shut down iWeb and then brought it back up again, however it still won't publish all the way.
Has anyone seen this yet?
Is there a fix?
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Just saw the other thred. :S It did say that a lot of other people are having this issue. I think I'll call apple support and see what they know about this issue.

IWeb won't Publish, just crashes.

iWeb will not publish to .Mac. After pressing publish, the program signs into .mac and then proceeds to create the web pages. Once all the pages are created circles form next to their consecutive sites. These usually fill up like a clock showing the site being uploaded. However, ifor the past few days nothing happens once the circles appear. Then after a few minutes iWeb crashes. Also, during this time my whole computer freezes. iTunes will stop playing until the iWeb crash is complete. This has happened every time I have tried to publish over the past few days. Just last week I was able to publish without any problems.
I think it is a problem with .mac because I am able to publish to a folder without any problems.
I have repaired permissions over and over again...
The only thing new I added to my mac since my last time I publish something in iWeb was the trial version of File Maker's Bento.
Here is the error message I get from the crash.
Parent Process: launchd [82]
Date/Time: 2008-01-14 16:57:18.418 -0500
OS Version: Mac OS X 10.5.1 (9B18)
Report Version: 6
Exception Type: EXCBADACCESS (SIGBUS)
Exception Codes: KERNPROTECTIONFAILURE at 0x0000000000000000
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My wife's macbook hasn't fared to well with leopard either.

Links are broken, and iWeb won't publish to .mac

Hi,
Just installed ilife and immediately ran update, and tried to continue editing/updating my site.
After publishing, the look of the page was fine, however, all the links to my blog entries were broken. Tried republishing, changing themes, and other to get it fixed. Still links are broken.
Now I am getting this error from .mac and iWeb:
An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/My_Page/Blog/Entries”. Try publishing again later.
Is this a known problem thats being fixed?
I hear of lots of people having problems. Any ideas? Anyone?
Ben Skirvin
http://web.mac.com/swervinben

Well, I first took a lot out of my site by deleting from my Idisk so I could go down to a small site to be published. I checked on my sign in with .mac and discovered my husband's signin was current...not mine, so I changed that to mine. then proceeded and was successful. Hated taking down so much but it is still in Iphoto so can reconstruct.
For some reason I was getting a Publishing Error message so I would recommend checking on your settings for your .mac signin. i still am showing that I have 4.95GB in my site. I just need to reconnect some of my links and then all should be fine. Good luck.

Why iweb won't publish to my mobile me?

I'm trying to update my iWeb that used to publish to mobile me... I haven't posted for a while (months) and now it won't publish... I click on the button, but it never publishes... Any ideas as to how to fix? I use godaddy.com for my site (www.peterspals.com) and it's worked in the past... Can't figure it out!

I use godaddy.com for my site (www.peterspals.com) and it's worked in the past...
No you don't. You use masquarading.
This is your website :
http://web.me.com/donomorrison6/Peters_Pals/For_Peter_-_Fighting_Diabetes/For_Pe ter_-_Fighting_Diabetes.html
And it's last update : <meta name="iWeb-Build" content="local-build-20100729" />

IWeb won't publish since the Security Update 2010-001

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I see the Security Update has caused several problems across the board. So far, I've not seen anything related to iWeb. Since the upgrade, I've not been able to publish my iWeb sites to MobileMe. It keeps asking me to sign in, but I already AM signed in. IS this a glitch in the Security update? My wireless internet didn't want to connect either, but it finally worked itself out.
Has anyone else had this problem, if so, is there a work around?
Thanks!

Thanks, Mr. Toad
I tried it again earlier, and it worked finally--allowed me to publish my pages. Then, I noticed where I'd forgotten a coma on my text, so I corrected it and tried to republish again. Once again, it asked me to sign in. I tried your method of disk utility, signing out, and entering in bogus info. (Didn't think of the bogus info part). Still not publishing.
I'm gonna just shut her down, and see what happens tomorrow.
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I changed web hosts and can't publish through iWeb SEO Tool or Rage Site Map Automator. Do I need to delete the old site map?

I switched to iPage hosting since Mobile Me is expiring. Also recently upgraded to OS X 10.7.3 and am using iWeb 3.0.4 for my web site design. I published directly to the FTP from iWeb but all title tags, meta tags have disappeared and I'm not showing up in Google or others. I tried publishing from iWeb SEO but it couldn't complete the process.
Should I first publish to a folder as I did before with Mobile Me, then delete all old sitemaps and start over with the Site Map Automator and then try to publish from the SEO tool? Will I lose the key words and meta tags that are already in iWeb SEO?
Thanks!

The problem is that most tech support people don't understand how iWeb structures a site.
When a visitor types in "domain-name-com" the browser expects to find an index.html in the root folder on the server. In "normal" websites the index.html file is the first page of the site.
The iWeb index.html file is a redirect to the first, or landing, page of the site which is the one at the top of the left column in iWeb just below the site name.
iWeb produces two index.html files.
One is outside of the folder containing the rest of the files and directs to - folder-name/home-page-name.html
The other one is inside the folder and directs to - home-page-name.html
You have two choices of how you upload the files since you are publishing to a local folder.
You can upload the whole folder plus the external index.html to the root folder on the server and the URL to any page will be...
http://www.domain-name.com/site-name/page-name.html
If you upload the contents of the site folder, and not the folder or the external index.html, the URL will be...
http://www.domain-name.com/page-name.html
See this page for more info and the warning about breaking the RSS feed....
http://www.iwebformusicians.com/iWeb/URLs-Favicons.html

Publishing error - iweb won't publish my site

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