Remove Personal Domain Problem

Hi. I had a personal domain setup and it was working fine. I recently removed the domain from my .Mac account. iWeb still thinks it is publishing to the domain, and shows the little green indicator light at the bottom with my domain. After it publishes, the Visit Site button tries to load up with my domain and not with the .mac address.
How can I get it to revert to the .mac address mode?

I'm pretty good on computers but my dad asked him to help him with a Mac problem so here I am...
Our good friend has built our website from his computer at his house, me and my dad need to be able to edit the website using iWeb (the same program our friend uses) so we can make appropriate changes...
We can log into the .Mac the same one that our friend uses but we can't figure out how to actually "load" the work our friend has already done so we can add to it and edit it...
Any advice is appreciated

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Personal Domain problem.

I am unable to reverse (cancel, annul, stop, call off, scratch, scrub) the link that has somehow or other been created between Mobile Me and a domain, hosted by GoDaddy, that I own but never use.
So, when I update my iWeb pages and 'publish changes' and then visit my site I find myself on the GoDaddy site.
I admit that I recently discovered that it was possible to have a Mobile Me site forwarded and I even looked at the page in GoGdaddy where it was possible to change the CNAME. however, I did not complete the process.
I have spoken to customer support at GoDaddy, who have been very accommodating, and they assure me that they have cleared any links, but the problem persists.
What next?
Any clues, anyone?
Cordially,
David Amies

Of course there is!
Log into your MobileMe account under System Preferences and then go to the Personal preferences section. Under there you will find on the left hand side, Personal Domain Settings. Click on this and where your personal domain name is entered, there will also be a delete button on the right hand side. Click on delete and your domain is removed.

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

Remove Personal Domain from MMe

I have added a Personal Domain to a MMe account. However, the domain transfer process is going to take a few more days, because of the grace period built into the process. As soon as I added the personal domain name in MMe (I have not clicked the "Done" button.) all of the page icons in iWeb turned red, indicating they needed to be republished. I have not republished. I can still get to my site using the web.me.com/username address, of course. I have made a a number of changes that I would like to publish.
Do I need to wait until the domain transfer process has been completed? I have not done anything to point the domain name to the MMe site at either the previous or future registrar.
Can I remove the Personal Domain from MMe until the domain process has been completed, and manage the site as before? If so, how do I do this?
If I go ahead and republish with the domain name in the MMe account (before the transfer process has been completed, and with the personal domain still associated with the account) can I still access it using the web.me.com/username address?
Thanks...

Log into your MME account and go to the Personal Domain option. It has remove on the right side and just click on that to remove it.
Whether your domain name is linked to your site or not, you can always get to your site by using the url web.me.com/username/sitename.
If you are using iWeb, then your site will always only ever be published to your iDisk and MME and not your domain - it is only an illusion because your domain name is forwarded to your MME account.

Removing Personal Domain Name

I changed the personal Domain Name in iWeb 08 and realized it was entered incorrectly. I've removed the name form the list and my pages and blog still show up at the wrong address. It's been 12 hours. Does anyone know how long it takes or if another step is needed?

If you have changed it on your .Mac account settings, try publishing and uploading again and see if that does it for you.
Good luck!

New personal domain problem

So it seems that my personal domain isn't working as hoped.
My CNAME alias was configured but it's acting funky.
This points to the current changes I'm making in iWeb.
http://web.mac.com/mingistech/
This points to the old page that was created in iWeb 1.0
http://mingistech.com
Not sure how to correct this issue.... any information would be much appreciated.

Of course there is!
Log into your MobileMe account under System Preferences and then go to the Personal preferences section. Under there you will find on the left hand side, Personal Domain Settings. Click on this and where your personal domain name is entered, there will also be a delete button on the right hand side. Click on delete and your domain is removed.

Personalized Domain Problems

I currently have two .mac websites, and wanted to create a personalized domain name for only one of them. I followed the steps, purchased my domain name, changed the cname and then clicked publish all to .mac, only when I did this instead of seeing the site I had the domain name planned for at that domain, I saw my other site. Is there any way I can switch this around and have my other site associated with the domain name with out deleting either of my sites?

The easiest way to do this is to set up a separate user account on your Mac, and use that account for one of your sites. The iWeb program will see only the one .Mac account you have set in the preferences.
This is a problem with several Mac products - they go so much for simplicity that they lock you into their 1 and only paradigm, cutting out flexibility. I wish I could select individual domain files for iWeb, and easily switch between several different iPhoto files. But you cannot do either. It can get frustrating at times!!!
http://gallery.mac.com/johnsoncreekblog#100008&view=grid&bgcolor=black&sel=0

Personal domain problems

I have a personal domain name set up and i put it onto my .mac acct. when i went to do the cname for the registrar there is no such option. you can redelegate or add a host. redelegate requires 2 server names and new host requires my domain name to be part of the host name... what do I do

I have a personal domain name set up and i put it onto my .mac acct. when i went to do the cname for the registrar there is no such option. you can redelegate or add a host. redelegate requires 2 server names and new host requires my domain name to be part of the host name... what do I do
Move your name to someplace like Godaddy which provides the features you need, or try Chapter 3 of this:
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_Domains.html

Iweb-personal domain problem

Im having issues with registering my iweb site under my own domain name(yes, I own it)
When I go to <file> and then to <setting up personal domain> it then takes me to< .mac login> which then takes me to my <.mac account settings> where there is nothing indicating anything about domain registration. Any thoughts? Thanks...

There should be a button over at the right, 4th one down, called Personal Domain.
Are you using iWeb 08?
You can't "register" your domain with Apple, it has to be actually held somewhere else, where you are able to modify the www CNAME entry.

Personal Domain - Problem with CNAME

Video nerd here who knows zero about web...
My website han't been touched in about 5 years since I had it built. I decided to buy iWeb 08 specifically so I could do my own thing and still use the web address I've been using for years.
I followed all the directions from iWeb, and got my host on the phone to change my cname settings. They released all the permissions for me to do that, and when we tried, we got this error:
CNAME web.mac.com.' is invalid (CNAME aliases to zone name are not allowed per RFC 2219))
They guy on the phone with me at Intermedia said he didn't know what was up. He tried to find answers on Apple's site, but no luck.
Anybody here able to give me a hand with this?
Much appreciated!
Thanks.

yep. With and without end periods. with and without www... I'm totally lost.
www.blpvideo.com
web.mac.com/blpvideo
Thanks!

Problem with iWeb after associating a personal domain name with my MobileMe

I think I did this by the book. I associated my personal domain name with my MobileMe account, then changed the CName pointer at GoDaddy to MobileMe (MM), then went back to MM and hit 'Done'. iWeb now lists my MM account as 'My account name (personal domain name). It took a little while for the DNS pointer to propogate, but now I can go to a browser, type in my personal domain name, and MM delivers my iWeb website as I wanted it to, apparently from my domain, not web.me.com. The problem is, as soon as the DNS propogated, MM delivers my MM site OK, but iWeb can't find the files for it anymore. All my pages immediately went red (unpublished) when I tried to update the site, and any attempt to Publish gives me this error "iWeb couldn’t connect to MobileMe. Make sure your Internet connection works and try again." I'm cable connected to an ADSL router, and Airport connected to a cable router, and neither service has dropped out. I've rebooted, and retried, and the website is up under my own domain, so GoDaddy and MM both got it right. What did I do wrong? Thanks, someone... anyone?

This is now sort of resolved, but not very satisfactorily. One of the trainers at my local Appple Store found an old support issue in the archives going back to 2008, which blamed security settings for update problems. Coincidental with associating MobileMe with my personal domain, I had checked the privacy box and added an ID and PW to the site. That was the problem, not the personal domain, that was preventing iWeb from finding my MM account. Uncheck that box and my site happily updates. Of course, now I have a site that I cannot make private. In this case, not a show-stopper, but disappointing. I have reported it as a bug in the latest version of iWeb. Thanks for your help.

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.

Iweb, personal domain, CNAME problems

Hi,
We have the following problem, no assistance being provided from .dotmac (2 days, 3 days - 2 requests).
Symptoms:
we have followed apple's instructions:
1) Ensuring that we have a proper domain name (www.xxx.com.au)
2) Ensuring that we have created a CNAME alias (www.xxx.com.au -> web.mac.com)
3) Associating the name www.xxx.com.au as our personal domain
4) Allowed more than 48 hrs
5) Publishing to the website which works okay (ww.xxx.com.au via the latest release of iWeb which supports personal domains). (Iweb shows [email protected] www.xxx.com.au at the bottom of the window). Files are in subdirectory idisk web/Sites/XXX.
All that has happened so far is that when you type in www.xxx.com.au in a browser window, you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
More interesting is when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check the account settings -> personal domain you see www.xxx.com.au listed and when you click on it you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
Further interesting effects occur when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check My Pages, any of the pages (ie "About Us" redirects to http://www.xxx.com.au/XXX/About_Us.html and then to http://www.mac.com/account_error.html. (Apples "I'm sorry page").
DNS details below:
Host Record type Value
xx.yy.aaa.aaa / 24 PTR xxx.com.au.
ftp.xxx.com.au. CNAME xxx.com.au.
mail.mpi.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
xxx.com.au. NS ns.xxx.com.au.
xxx.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
xxx.com.au. MX(10) mail.xxx.com.au.
ns.xxx.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
webmail.mpi.com.au. A xx.yy.aaa.aaa
www.xxx.com.au CNAME web.mac.com.
Can anyone assist us?
Thanks

Symptoms:
we have followed apple's instructions:
1) Ensuring that we have a proper domain name (www.mpi.com.au)
2) Ensuring that we have created a CNAME alias (www.mpi.com.au -> web.mac.com)
3) Associating the name www.mpi.com.au as our personal domain
4) Allowed more than 48 hrs
5) Publishing to the website which works okay (ww.mpi.com.au via the latest release of iWeb which supports personal domains). (Iweb shows [email protected] www.mpi.com.au at the bottom of the window). Files are in subdirectory idisk web/Sites/MPI.
All that has happened so far is that when you type in www.mpi.com.au in a browser window, you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
More interesting is when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check the account settings -> personal domain you see www.mpi.com.au listed and when you click on it you see a redirection to web.mac.com and then to http://www.apple.com/dotmac.
Further interesting effects occur when you log into .mac ([email protected]) and check My Pages, any of the pages (ie "About Us" redirects to http://www.mpi.com.au/MPI/About_Us.html and then to http://www.mac.com/account_error.html. (Apples "I'm sorry page").
DNS details below:
Host Record type Value
64.13.248.146/24 PTR mpi.com.au.
ftp.mpi.com.au. CNAME mpi.com.au.
mail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. NS ns.mpi.com.au.
mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
mpi.com.au. MX(10) mail.mpi.com.au.
ns.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
webmail.mpi.com.au. A 64.13.248.146
www.mpi.com.au CNAME web.mac.com.

Posting problem--personal domain

Hi Folks,
I'm having a frustrating problem with publishing parts of my website via iWeb. The gist is that one of my sites will no longer load when typed in directly, although it will when accessed via a link on another of my sites.
Here's some background:
I set up a .mac account, then bought a domain name via Godaddy, then set up .mac to publish to that personal domain--www.myname.org. This page worked (and still works) fine.
Then I set up another site--www.myname.org/titleofmybook. I set it up as a separate site, rather than a page on my home site, because I wanted to use the two for distinct purposes, and because there are several pages on each. This site worked fine for a couple of months. Its actual url is www.myname.org/titleofmybook/welcome.html, but just plain www.myname.org/titleofmybook has always worked fine for me and everyone else--the browser would always fill in the rest. But suddenly, neither option works--they both dead end at a .mac "We're Sorry..." page. (I get the same result on both Safari and Firefox.)
My other page, though--just plain www.myname.org--still works fine. And here's the twist: myname.org/titleofmybook/welcome.html also works fine when accessed through a link from myname.org.
This is making me crazy.
Help, anyone?
Many thanks.

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. There are a couple of ways. I use iWebSites to manage over 40 individual 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 and move it to another location on your HD until you're satisfied the separation process is completed and what you want.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want.
OT

Publishing problems: Personal domain didn't work

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).
Please help - I'm already a day behind on getting this blog up and running.
Thanks!

http://web.mac.com/lheyward/Lamarat_CES/Lamar_at_CES/Lamar_atCES.html
Look how ridiculous this url looks. How can I fix. I has the name of my page like 10 times!
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:
http://web.mac.com/lheyward
PS While you are there, if you get your hands on a Sony MyLo 2, I'd be interested in your impressions.

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