Publishing Issue - Non .Mac

HI Folks,
I Publish my iWeb file to a folder on my desktop. Test the index file in Safari and Firefox. Everything works. I publish it via Cyberduck FTP and all my images are question marks, the rest of the page is blank. Any advice?
G5-Dual 2's Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Like I said the file works perfect when launched from
the original folder I publish to. The issue only
occurs when I go through the FTP to the "www" folder.
It's starting to sound like a hosting issue...
Have you verified that you have the exact same structure in the www folder on your server that you have on your local drive, namely an index.html file, a folder with the same name as your site, and inside that folder various pagename.html files and pagename_files folders? It is not that uncommon for people to accidentally change the structure when using ftp, which means it will not display right from the server even though it is fine when viewed locally.
Also, did you upload everything to the server rather than just items you had changed? That could also be important.
Again, the url would be helpful to verify that others see the same thing you do, etc. Also the name of your site inside iWeb would be helpful.

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Your other option for a blog is http://www.posterous.com.
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I think I have bitten off more than I can chew....
Having fallen in love with iWeb I took the plunge and published
the website I created to my Partners site (as the iWeb one I wrote was 100% better than his)
I used 'Easy Iweb Publisher' to upload the site
his domain is www.st-erasmus.com
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http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=486335&tstart=0
There is a pattern: An error occurred while publishing file “/blah/blah", while file "/blah/blah" seems to be random from one person to the next, but they all share one thing and that is communication protocol.
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1. identify if the file exists
2. do the following:
2a. if not exists, copy it to .Mac
2b. if exist, do some sort comparison - CRC checksum -
2b1. if checksums match, don't copy
2b2. if checksums don't match copy it to .Mac
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3. when it finds a file that matches a client side file, it has to (some how) do checksum on-the-fly across the net work (which is slow and congested)
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For subsequence publishing, I would (use a fast protocol like FTP) download this pre-built files/checksums list. Locally, do a full publishing, making checksum comparison, the result is delta changes; upload only those. Build a new files/checksums list upload that too.
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Can I use iweb to develop a web site and publish to a
domain that is not .mac?
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I changed the name, uploaded the folder, and still
nothing.
When you look at your web space with your ftp program, you should see two items: index.html and a folder called Kiiskakuna. Do you?
When I hit publish,
it automatically publishes to iMac. I have to use
Cyberduck to upload to the other server. Is this
correct?
Yes. You do not hit publish, you use the menu item to publish to a folder. It is a good idea to select your desktop as the place to publish to so you don't get mixed up. After publishing that way, you should see two items on your desktop, index.html and a folder called Kiiskakuna. You use Cyberduck to upload these to your web space.
Right now it is clear that there is no index.html in your web space, so you must not have uploaded that. It must be outside the folder Kiiskakuna and it must be the one that iWeb created outside the folder Kiiskakuna. There is another one inside the folder, but that and everything else there should get uploaded automatically when you upload the folder.
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In the past 24 hours I was able to publish my domain
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Did you read the link provided earlier? Do you have questions about it?
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It is a common problem that you can't upload incremental changes to a website a web server that is not a .mac. Recently I found that the unix (shell) 'diff -qr' works nicely for this.
However I can't seem to get this to work in automator. That is where I need some help.
What I did :
I have an iweb website in my directory
Documents/website
I made a second directory where I store my uploaded version of the website:
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Using a shell script I want to compare the differences between these two directories using the diff command in a shell script. When I run 'diff -qr websiteonserver website' in a terminal window, it gives a nice overview of which files are changed and which ones are new. When workin with iWeb this saves me a lot of time uploading my homepage to a non .mac server. I can only upload the changed files, which is usually only a few. Diff does not look at timestamps (which are useless in the iweb case) but it actually looks into a file and with the -q option it stops when it finds a difference. With the -r added (-qr) it also looks through all subdirectories and compares files with the same name.
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The commands I gave:
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The next challenge is to take the diff output and use that to upload only changed/new files to a ftp server.
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Dear Cyclosaurus,
I used a single command as us specified. It really helped to add the path to the directories I wanted to compare. So now at least I got it two work partly:
It seems to work only if I compare two files. Comparing directories still does not work. Maybe diff generates some kind of error code when doing this??? It does not do that in the shell.
If I compare all files in directories + subdirectories , the workflow does not work. It seems as if it only accepts a single output line or so from the diff function. If there is more output (or maybe some newline character) the workflow halts. Very peculiar.
mmm.... I will try to make a shell script which I can run in automator. In the script file I will then generate a txt file. Then the automator can run the script and then it can open the resulting file in a text editor. See if that works.
mmm nope. I made a script like this:
#!/bin/bash
diff -qr ~/Documents/websiteon_theserver/ ~/Documents/website/ > ~/Documents/logfile.txt
I modified the atributes to executable and I could run it from the command line. The logfile.txt was created and has the correct info. I could not run it from automator...
I did copy the last line from the script into automator. And also there it does create the logfile, but the automator still says there was an error and stops.
maybe I should try Applescript, were it not that I am totally clueless on that language...

.Mac publishing issues...

Okay, so I loved making my site with iWeb, and assumed publishing to my .Mac account would be just as easy, but unfortunately was not.
Yes, I'm using the latest (1.1.1) version...
Here's my error message:
"Publish Error
An error occured while publishing file "/Web/Sites/iWeb/kleen_kompanion/Blog"."
And nothing else...no clue why it's erroring out.
This is ridiculous...any ideas?
I've already tried deleting my preferences file, reinstalling
the latest update, an still no luck.
Thanks for the good IDEA, at least, Apple.

Hmm. No, every other .Mac feature seems to be working properly and as expected - that's why this makes no sense to me.
Yeah, that *****...good luck with yours too!
I think I'm going to try reinstalling iWeb and see if that makes any difference.
I might reset all my sync data as well..not sure what else to try.
One more thing, however, is that I believe iWeb is trying to publish to my iDisk in the wrong folder to begin with. The help files tell me that if you only have one site, it will publish to: http://web.mac.com/ppmdrumma.
Well, even though it's not actually publishing, I still have the "visit" button,
which takes me to: http://web.mac.com/ppmdrumma/iWeb/Site.
Makes no sense to me...I don't have multiple sites!!!

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