RSS in iWeb

I've been trying to set up RSS for my school website. I'm using iWeb '06 and publish it to a folder.
You can see it here:
http://fairview.dist57.org:8080/iweb/black/Soar/Newsletter/Newsletter.html
I've turned on RSS in iWeb, then I put in the URL of the welcome page in when I publish to a folder, but I still get an error when I try and subscribe to the feed - says the file is not found on this server.
Any ideas?
Thanks
Teachntech

I put in the URL of the welcome page in
That's not right. You just put in the url of your basic site, probably http://fairview.dist57.org:8080/iweb/black

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