Uploading iweb layout/site to personal domain

I'm using FireFTP through Firefox to upload my site designed on iWeb. However, once uploaded and I visit my site images don't show up, fonts are wrong and some text doesn't show.
I'm getting really frustrated, I've tried the other free FTP's and they don't work either. How do I fix this problem?

Will I just send my whole "site" folder to my public folder at my personal domain?
You send the folder created by iWeb which has the same name as you gave your site inside the iWeb app, plus the index.html file which iWeb created alongside that folder.
How will I update each day?
By publishing again to a folder and uploading again via ftp.
(Can I set up iWeb so that when I click "publish" it will update my personal domain?)
No. If iWeb could do that you would not need an ftp program to start with.
I was planning on using some wordpress plugins to modify my site.
No idea, but generally speaking modifying iWeb to add stuff requires manual editing of the html after publishing and redoing it every time you republish.

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Uploading iWeb site to personal domain via FTP client (NOT .MAC)

Hello,
I want to upload my iweb created website to my personal domain, in other words I do not want my domain to point to my .mac address.
I am downloading Cyberduck as my FTP client. Will I just send my whole "site" folder to my public folder at my personal domain? Will it be in the right order? How will I update each day? (Can I set up iWeb so that when I click "publish" it will update my personal domain?)
I was planning on using some wordpress plugins to modify my site. Will this work? I am totally lost, I had no idea I needed so much background info to blog outside of .mac! I guess I just want to design with iweb, and be able to use all the tools of my AN Hosting and wordpress.
Thanks for your help in advance!

Will I just send my whole "site" folder to my public folder at my personal domain?
You send the folder created by iWeb which has the same name as you gave your site inside the iWeb app, plus the index.html file which iWeb created alongside that folder.
How will I update each day?
By publishing again to a folder and uploading again via ftp.
(Can I set up iWeb so that when I click "publish" it will update my personal domain?)
No. If iWeb could do that you would not need an ftp program to start with.
I was planning on using some wordpress plugins to modify my site.
No idea, but generally speaking modifying iWeb to add stuff requires manual editing of the html after publishing and redoing it every time you republish.

Returning multiple sites from personal domain to iweb domain

I have a family web site that I've posted to my .mac account. I've been asked to update another web site for a preschool that had been created previously by another mac user. She emailed me the domain and I was able to open it and make edits. I created two separate folders to keep the domain files separate. A few problems have happened since:
First, I can still access my personal account in both iweb and via the internet, but the address that appears at the bottom of the page is now the preschool address. I want this account to remain hosted on my imac account.
Secondly, for the preschool, the site should be hosted on personal domain. The site does show up on the bottom of that site (the same now as my personal one). What I would like it to post a temporary version of the password protected revised site on my .mac account until I am ready to replace the one that is currently up.
So, I guess my biggest question for the moment is how do I return both sites to the .mac host until I am ready to upload one of them onto the preschool personal domain?
When I go to the iweb folder in my idisk I can not move the folders containing the separate sites.
I have read other posts regarding multiple domains and they have not fully addressed this issue.
Many thanks, Emily.

Was the other mac user using the personal domain (CName) feature of iWeb?
Were you using it as well with your family site?
This might be the problem, as you can only use the personal domain feature with one iWeb site.

Multiple Web Sites with Personal Domain Names - Overview

I have read through the last 10 pages of these discussions and have almost worked this out, but I need some help.
Problem:
I want to publish and edit two separate web sites with their own, individual, personal web addresses
from the same user account on the same Mac using iWeb '08 (2.0.2) and my .Mac account
_So far:_
I have purchased and registered the two domain names (with Cheap-DomainRegistration.com)
I have configured the CNAME to point to web.mac.com, and "Set up a Personal Domain" in iWeb successfully, but using a separate Mac for each web site.
The two sites work great.
_What (I think) I need to know:_
(excuse me for copying these posts out, but I can't find a way to link them to this post)
1) Should I be using iWebSites as suggested by Old Toad (posted Jan 24 in response to StAnNe's "Multiple Websites--HELP!!!")?
I use iWebSites to manage multiple sites.. It lets me create multiple sites and multiple domain files.
2) Should I be using Mireille's approach (also posted Jan 24 in response to StAnNe's "Multiple Websites--HELP!!!")?
Yes you are correct in the thought that with a family pack you can use different accounts and that is the easiest way to upload with one click to .mac. But it is still possible to publish differents sites to one .mac account if that is all one has. Even if the sites are in one domain file each purchased mysite.com domain name purchased can be pointed to a different page in the site
Look at it this way
Original Poster has
site1 page 1 page 2 and so on
then he/she has brothersite page 1 and so on.
They each have a domain name purchase wherever
then site1domain.com is forwarded to site 1 page1
and brotherdomain.com is forwarded to brothersite page 1.
Even though both sites are in the same file they do not have anything to do with each other.
This is one possibility there are others but for a novice user this could be the way to go for simplicity.
(Mireille, if you're there, can you clarify what you said - thank you)
3) Would I use Roddy's fix (posted Jan 23 in response to canadensis' "Publishing Multiple Websites?")?
Here's an example of how you can separate two websites that are on the same domain file.
Quit iWeb
Create a new folder on your desktop and call it "iWeb Sites".
Inside this folder create two more - Website A, Website B.
Go to Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb and copy your domain file - command C
Paste this into folders A and B - command V - and also paste a copy of it somewhere else - like in Docs - in case you make a mistake!
Double click the domain file in the folder Website A - this will launch iWeb.
In the left column, delete site B, save and quit iWeb.
Double click the domain file in the folder Website B to launch iWeb.
Delete website A, save and quit.
Drop the iWeb sites folder into your Home Folder.
If you want quick access to this folder you can highlight it and do command L to create an alias to leave on the desktop.
From now on, to launch any site in iWeb you open its folder in the iWebsites folder and double click the domain file.
This is not necessary when you are working on only one site as iWeb saves the domain file of the last site you were working on to Home Folder/Library/Application Support/iWeb. When you open the iWeb application, the last site you worked on will be launched.
Summary:
I'm not sure if some of the answers in previous discussions allow for personal domain names, which is what I need.
I would be very grateful for any suggestions as I'm getting bogged down.
Many Thanks,
Jeff

When you said, "you don't need to do CNAME for both sites…", would this method still allow me to use personal web addresses for both sites?
Yes. With "Ordinary Forwarding" you normally just type your .Mac url (web.mac.com/username/sitename) into a form at the place where you have your name.
I thought I was using 'web.mac.com' as the 'www' CNAME (alias) for my personal domain name (web address), so that when someone typed in my personal domain name they would 'go' to the domain registration location, which would then pass it on to the .Mac server, where my web site is hosted.
That's exactly right. It's just not the only way to do that. Ordinary Forwarding is another way, but it differs in terms of what appears in the address bar of the browser. Either you will see web.mac.com/username/.... or, if you add "masking", you will see your personal name for all pages. The CNAME method results in a address bar that reads www.myname.com/sitename/pagename.html.
Am I way off?
All help gratefully received,
Jeff

Uploading different websites to multiple personal domains

I look after some simple websites for organisations I am involved with as well as my business one.
I have begun to use iwebsites as the tool to let me work on them seperatly but I need some advice on uploading them.
I use the publish button on iweb to upload my business site as that is the personal domain linked to my .mac account, but is there a way to do the same for the others or do I have to use something like classic ftp for them?

kiwedog62:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. if your sites are contained all in one domain file you might want to separate them into their own domain.sites2 file to make editing and publishing easier.
I use iWebSites to manage multiple 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.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want. It works very well for me.
OT

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.

IWeb and using my personal domain name.

I have never published a web site before and this is a first time for me.
With having iWeb version 8 installed I have created a website with photos etc.
I have also registered a domain name to use my personal name. This is the one and only web-site I have published.
The name has been set up for forwarding with the CName as web.mac.com with the host site in the section of ‘Masked forwarding’
And in my personal settings in the account manager on .Mac the correct name has been entered to use for my iWeb site. For example www.anthonyjhowe.com which is my registered name.
In the iWeb application under file I have published all my pages to .mac.
In my iDisk folder on the Internet there is a folder named “web/sites and inside this folder, there is my gallery but also a folder named AnthonyJHowe, this has all my pages I created in iWeb.
There is another folder named “iWeb. But inside this there is one file named sites.rss, and that is all. This is replicated on my iDisk on my desktop.
Now in iWeb when I publish all to .Mac I receive a message that my site can be visited using my domain name and would I like to visit or announce the site. This lists all the pages I have published.
When I click on visit, it takes me to the .Mac welcome screen and not my site.
That’s how far I have got. It’s been over 72 hours since I registered the domain name.
I have searched and read some posts about this but I don’t seem to go any further with this.
Could you give some suggestions please and perhaps point me in the right direction?

This iWeb’s Domain Forwarding feature that has you publish the site to your .Mac account and then uses your domain name as an alias for your Web site should be relative simple procedure, but with quite a lot of posts on this subject, including myself is not easy to set up and it should be as iWeb 08 is a consumer product. There is little information about this at present.
Getting in touch with the registrars can be quite daunting and eventually you may get one person in the office that may be able to help you. Apple's information to suggest you contact the Registrar of you domain host to create a CNAME does not help an ordinary consumer either.
My issue with the Personal Domain feature is that it places the burden of making the switch on the user, and it is far from a straightforward process and my unfortunate lack of experience has led me to ask the question in the first place.
This discussion forum seems to be the only place that gets close to helping you out.
As it stands, the instructions from Apple are extremely vague, mostly advising you to contact your domain name registrar. They give no indication of what to expect or do if things that aren’t working correctly. And that's why a lot ask the question in the first place in this discussion forum. However those who have experience in dealing with these matters may not always see your post.
I can usually work out problems to do with computing, but to be honest this one has me beat and yet it should be and probably is a simple procedure to carry out. But there is either very little information to carry out the procedure or confusing information elsewhere that makes the mind boggle.
The link below is the only information I can find from Apple to help you, unless someone knows of other information.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=306195

Multiple sites and personal domain

Hi everyone!
I'm having a problem with iWeb 08. Here's the details:
Using iWebsite and iWeb '08 I've created 2 websites, one for personal use and one for my business.
Now I'm interested in buying a personal domain for my business website.
How can I do to set the personal domain only to my business site, leaving the personal one unchanged?
Cheers,
Samuele

An easy way to manage multiple sites is either iWebSites or MultiSite.
I use iWebSites to manage multiple 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.
This lets me edit several sites and only republish the one I want. Works for me.
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.Mac site to personal domain

Hi all,
does any of you know how is it possible that a .Mac site is transferred to a personal domain? It's not redirected: both sites are identical.
See here
h**p://web.mac.com/uomoragno/blog/spider-mac/spider-mac.html
And here
h**p://www.spider-mac.com/blog/spider-mac/spider-mac.html
Thanks.
--Antonio

You don't have to transfer anything.
With a Personal Domain your pages are stil on MMe. You have to add a CNAME at your registrar.
Go to your MME account and click Personal domain.
https://secure.me.com/account/
Then click +Find a Help topic+. Then click Account.
If on the other hand you mean to host your webpages at some provider, then you have to publish to a folder and upload the folder to that host.

How can I edit my iweb published site when the domain file is empty?

How can I edit my iweb site when the domain file opens up empty? I have the site backed up in mobile me, on my computer, and on an external hard drive.
How can I transfer these files into iweb?

Hi there,
To edit your site from one of your backed up versions, place the Domain file in User>Library>Application Support>iWeb & then launch iWeb. Update & publish.
Ben

Iweb 08 "adding a personal domain

I've got I life 08 on my powerbook and I'm trying to add my personal domain by following the instructions and I can't get by this message...
The domain names you entered don't match. Please try again
It says to enter my domain and confirm it so I've tried that many times as well as rebooting then trying again etc. I've opened my domain and was paying for support through ipowerweb but I'm trying to convert to mac now. Has anyone else seen this error?

This is what the screen looks like when the error occurs!
Add Personal Domain (1 of 2)
The domain names you entered don't match. Please try again.
Enter your domain name below and click Continue.
Domain Name
www.ralstongolfclub.com
Confirm Domain
www.ralstongolfclub.com
Hmmmmmmm. I am new at this but have ran a site for 5 years through ipowerweb without many problems.
Thanks in advance to anyone that can help.

IWeb ads "site" to my domain

Ilike iWeb. It's easy to use and makes me feel more powerful and artistic than I really am. :-) A sign of any great software. However I don't like the way it appends my domain from http://XXX.XXX.com to http://XXX.XXX.com/site.
It really bugs me for some reason. I've been to many sites that claim to have been made with iWeb and they don't show the "site" at the end of their url.
Is there any way to hide this or change it to reflect the current page of the site a reader is on? Maybe it's a limitaion of my domain host?
Any insight would be appreciated.
Thanks.

What's the URL of your site so we can examine it first hand? If you're using CNAME domain name forwarding that's what you'll get: http://www.domain_name.com/Site_Name/Page_Name.html. There's no easy way around it.
You could use standard URL domain name forwarding with masking which would give you http://www.domain_name.com for all pages.
However, there are drawbacks to using domain name forwarding with masking:
Visitors can only enter your web site via the first page.
Visitors can only bookmark the first page of your site.
If a visitor refreshes a page they will be taken back to the first page of the site.k
Search engines will only be able to use the first page of your site for indexing and rating your site.
Your site will be somewhat isolated from search engines and visitors. Once you get visitors to your site with the simple domain name, what's in the URL window is superfluous. Visitors will pay more attention to a well designed site with contents that they are interested in rather than what's in the URL field of the browser.
You can get rid of the site name if you publish your site to a folder on your hard drive and upload just the contents of the site folder to your root folder on the server. With MobileMe that would be the iDisk/Web/Site folder.
With some 3rd party hosts, like HostExcellence.com, when you get a domain name the folder to which you upload the site will be named the same as the domain name. This page explains how it works with HostExcellence: Using HostExcellence - iWebFAQ.org
If you're currently with MobileMe you know that MMe will be discontinued on June 30 of next year. With that in mind this may be of interest to you: #23 - Life After MobileMe
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IWeb and 123-reg personal domain difficulties

I have published before using iWeb but have now recently bought a domain name with 123-reg. I have changed my CNAME with 123-reg but cannot publish my website using iWeb. It just says:
Publish Error - There was an error updating MobileMe.
What am I doing wrong? Is it massively obvious? I've waited more than 48 hours.

Try the following:
delete the iWeb preference file, com.apple.iWeb.plist, that resides in your Home() /Library/Preferences folder.
go to your Home()/Library/Caches/com.apple.iWeb folder and delete its contents.
launch iWeb and try again.
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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.

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.

Uploading iweb layout/site to personal domain

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