Publishing to personal domain

We have registered the name www.bitsyland.com for our site with godaddy. We are using a .mac account and publishing the site that way. i went through the steps with .mac to set up a personal domain, and their web site says that it is configured to host www.bitsyland.com. before doing this i added a CNAME through godaddy with alias web.mac.com that points to www.bitsyland.com. however now, when i enter www.bitsyland.com into the web site it takes me to a different site. The only problem is that the site it tries to bring up one letter is lowercase that needs to be uppercase, so it will not work. Is this a problem with godaddy or iweb or .mac. thanks

Here us an answer to that original question. i got it figured out.
It really
consisted of two things. (1) The CNAME entry had to be corrected so
that alias and destination were correct. (It sounds like the dot mac
instructions I was following were either wrong or misleading.)
And the tech support person at GoDaddy did a trick by setting up the
site to forward back to itself, which apparently is an easy way to
support addresses with and without the www. But perhaps the most
significant thing for me was that Safari didn't work correctly on the
site, so that my previous efforts to change the configuration were
stymied. Once I opened it with Firefox, everything worked. I have since
read that GoDaddy and Safari have a history of not playing well
together, but most of the issues have apparently been resolved.

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Ok, I tried the personal domain and it took a long time to take - and I needed to get a blog up quickly. Now, I've removed the personal domain and I'm totally screwed. The personal domain isn't working and the .mac address gives a page not found. Is there a certain amount of time that needs to pass before the .mac address is active again? In iWeb it is still publishing to the personal domain, even though I deleted it in .mac. At the bottom of iWeb it still has [email protected] (www.personaldomain.com).
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All those duplicated names were given by you to your site and pages inside the iWeb app. You can change them using the inspector to anything you want.
For me this short url works just fine, as it should:
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Create a separate site and put the blog page in it. You can make it easy to make two separate domain files, one for each site, and manage them with iWebSites or Multisite for iWeb. That will keep your personal site separate form your business one. Each will have a separate URL. The personal one will be http://web.mac.com/your .Mac account name/the site name/the site name.html (or index.html).
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Iweb was not publishing changes to my personal domain name, AND now it won't let me publish at all!

Hi, i am new to the apple community so bare with me whilst i struggle to explain...
I recently purchased a hosting site through netregistry.net. www.toyboxtherapies.com.au I spoke to them to allow the changes to the CNAME through their site.They did this for me. Once they did this my original 3 page site that I had published to mobileme came up.
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I went to double check today and now iweb wont let me publish to my domain name at all, it just lists File>Set up personal domain on mobile me.
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Please help! I am trying to get this business off the ground and its all very frustrating!

This is what I see in a Lookup :
; <<>> DiG 9.6-ESV-R4-P3 <<>> www.toyboxtherapies.com.au cname +multiline +nocomments +nocmd +noquestion +nostats +search
;; global options: +cmd
www.toyboxtherapies.com.au. 3600 IN CNAME web.me.com.
It means that the CNAME record points to MobileMe.
So go where you manage your domain and delete the CNAME record and change the A-record(s) to point to your new webhost.
It takes some time for the changes to propagate thru the internet. A minimum of 20 minutes.
Note that when you publish to MobileMe, iWeb recieves the domainname information from the MobileMe server. Only when you publish elsewhere you have to enter the domainname. But if you do not change the settings where you host your domainname, it still directs to MMe. But that's beyond iWeb.

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.
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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.
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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:
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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.
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easytoremember wrote:
...so what's the disconnect? What step am I missing?
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Hi,
I am about to publish my first website using MobileMe but with a personal domain.
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f1stevef wrote:
Do I use the File>Publish to MobileMe option...?
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I don't have any problems with setting up a personal domain. (In fact, it was quite easy!) My question and issue is this: when I publish to my personal domain, iWeb wants to put the site I created into a subfolder of the root domain. For exmaple:
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-Shawn
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I am not sure what you mean by your "telltail sign". You are correct, iWeb is different and, being new to iWeb, I am attemping to learn these differences and hence why I posted this question initially. I was able to determine; however, that either iWeb and/or the "Publish to MobileMe" function does, indeed, create a index.html file, in the root directory with a META REFRESH in the <HEAD> section of the HTML. Using the open source WGET tool, I was able to grab this file. The contents of that file is below:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">
<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml">
<head>
<title>
</title>
<meta http-equiv="refresh" content="0;url= site/home.html" />
</head>
<body>
</body>
</html>
Note the <meta http-equiv="refresh" ... url= site/home.html" /> line. This is the "META REFRESH tag I was assumed was happening and apparently...it is. Given that this is something that iWeb and/or MobileMe does without the user knowing about it, I assume that there is nothing that can be done to prevent it.
I am in the process of using WebDAV to move my files from the /site/ subfolder to the / root directory and remove this index.html file. (Actually, I will also likely want to rename my home.html file to index.html.) This is just an academic thing for me at this point because this is not a viable long-term solution. I simply want to publish and forget...and not have to have unpleasant looking URLs.

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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.

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Hi,
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Works fine for me too, but not if you place the www before your domain name. If you want this too, you may need to go back to your DNS settings and set up a new CNAME for your domain name that includes the www part too, but only if you want to.

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I have a MobileMe Family account. Two of the users belong to me (one personal and one for business). Is it possible to create 2 personal domains in iWeb? Can't seem to be able to change the MobileMe account in iWeb unless I go to the main Apple System Preferences....and even doing that won't help me to publish to two individual personal domains. I really do like MobileMe and anything to keep me from having to subscribe to another hosting service would be great.

If you have an MME Family Pack then it is very easy to have 2 domain names linked to 2 accounts. That is the whole point of the Family Pack - you can have a CNAME set up for the one main account and 4 sub accounts.
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To make it even easier, what you can always do is create 2 new users on your computer and link 2 of your MobileMe accounts to the users, so when you switch user your get to the correct MME account without logging in and out under System Preferences.

Publishing to a personal domain name

The Personal Domain button is missing from my Accounts Settings page. How else can I publish to my own domain?
-Tino

You have obviously entered your personal domain name into your MMe account at some stage and either set up CNAME forwarding or web forwarding for your domain. All you need to do is delete your domain name from your MMe account and then go to your domain registrar and remove the CNAME settings.
However, whether you do this or not, as Tom said, iWeb will publish to MobileMe whatever and will always publish here to you iDisk, so you can always access your site by going to web.me.com/username/sitename. Remember, that this is why you have to set up forwarding, because when you click on publish in iWeb, it never publishes straight to your domain, always you iDisk/MMe account.

I cannot publish my to personal domain from iWeb via the publish button.

Ive registered the domain at mobile me and entered the cname at the registrar and still nothing. when i publish and its done i go to visit now and the site comes up but when i hit a link from somewhere else like google, i get the old unupdated site.

Firstly, no you do not register a domain name at MobileMe. MobileMe does not register domain names, it just hosts them. So what you actually did was enter your domain name into your MobileMe account under the Personal domain name settings.
Have you checked for sure that you have set up CNAME forwarding correctly? Check that you have as you need to forward your domain name (alias) to web.me.com (host).
Sometimes CNAME forwarding can take a little time, so you might find that your updated site is there now. What you can do however is go back into iWeb and publish the site again, so click publish all to MobileMe and this might work having set up to connect with your domain name.
You could also go and check your iDisk to see if the most current site is in your iWeb sites folder.

How to Publish to a personal domain AND .Mac?

I had a working iWeb site published to web.mac and it working fine. I added a new site in iWeb08 and set up a personal domain. When I selected the new site and published, BOTH my old site and the new one published to my personal domain. How do I tell iWeb08 to publish one site to a personal domain and another site to .Mac (.Me)?

This post is a little confusing. Do you have two sites hosted at MMe or not?
Do you mean that you used to host your business site and MMe and have now switched to uploading directly to your web host using ftp? If you have, then you can of course delete this site from your iDisk/MMe account, because if you have uploaded directly, then MMe has nothing to do with your domain name any more.
If you have not done this and you are hosting both your sites on your MMe account via either CNAME or web forwarding, then no, you can't delete that site because if you do, there is nowhere to forward to.
Password protection will not affect any other sites that you have. Just go into iWeb and set this up and then re-publish and it will just affect that site that you set it up for. Nothing else.

How do I publish from iWeb to my personal domain

Can someone tell me the exact steps I have to take to modify iWeb to publish my albums to my Personl domain. I found some instaruction about going to my domain cPanel and adding a new CNAME. The problem is that it asks for a NAME and a CNAME and I don't know what to put there. Now do I know to modify iWeb to replce the std "gallery.me.com" I don't know what to change that too.
My cPanel asks for...
Add a CNAME Record
Name:
CNAME:
If my domanname is www.peter.com, what do I use in the name field ? What should the CNAME be also ?
This is supposed to, after correcting iWeb, allow and iWeb publish to my personal domain.
Can anyone help me withthis?
TIA,
Peter

Your original post did not in fact state anywhere that you had a MobileMe account.
Also, you seem to be getting a little confused here with terminology which does make a difference.
Rather than a domain, what you in fact have is a domain name that is registered through hostpapa.com - it is not hosted as you say, but registered with them.
Also, iWeb will not and does not 'publish directly to your own domain'. iWeb cannot publish to a domain name or anything - you need a hosting account to be able to publish a website - do you have this? If not, then you will need to purcahse hosting too.
So, if you want to publish your site directly to hostpapa instead of MobileMe, then CNAME is NOT involved in this at all - you DON'T need it. CNAME is only a method of forwarding that you would use to forward your domain name to web.me.com when published on MobileMe. If you do not want to use MobileMe any longer, then you don't need this.
So you say that you have registered a domain name with hostpapa? Do you also have a hosting account with them too if they provide hosting? If not, then you need to purcahse a hosting account from either them or some other company that provides hosting.
When you have your hosting account and assuming that you are using iWeb 09, open iWeb and then click on your site name and your publishing options with become available in the drop down menu - rather than picking publish to MobileMe, select the publish to ftp option instead and fill in your details such as ftp name, username and password and then upload your site after testing your connection.
If you are using iWeb 08, then you'll need to publish to a local folder and use Cyberduck or Yummy ftp etc to upload your site to your server instead.
CNAME is not involved and if you purcahse hosting from another company other than hostpapa, then you will probably have to alter your nameservers so that they point to where your site is now hosted.
If you want to ditch MobileMe, then you don't need to use CNAME at all - it just isn't involved here.

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