Using my personal domain

i set up the CNAME in my control panel (netfirms if that matters) as web.mac.com and it's been 5 or 6 days now and it's still not re-directing to my .mac webpage. did i miss something or did i do it right?

i didn't change any settings in my .mac acct. i can't find the page now but the info i found a few days ago just said to create a CNAME for web.mac.com. netfirms said it should take 24 hours to take effect when i set it up. what settings do i need to change in my .mac acct?
this is my iweb site
http://web.mac.com/ellerbrook/ZaziBaby/Zazi_Baby_Customizable_BabyCarriers.html
and this is my domain
http://www.zazibaby.com/

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Can i use a personal domain name with iweb 06?

I have 2 personal domain names. and i read some where that i can host with.mac and still use my personal domain name. does any one know how to do that or is that just a feature with iweb 08. i bought this comp in 07 new so guess its iweb 06 or 07. little help here?

AlexandreaJane:
Welcome to the Apple Discussions. Yes you can. See: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1164519&tstart=0 and Personal Domains.
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Using a personal domain name

I am trying to use a personal domain name with my iWeb page. I found the directions to do so - it says go to File>Set Up Personal Domain. I am using iWeb 06 and I do not have an option under File (or anywhere else) to "set up personal domain". What am I doing wrong?

I wonder if you could help. I have iWeb 08 and have followed the instructions for personal domain name and its be 4 days now and my page is still loading with the long address. I've contacted .mac about his but nothing yet. Do you know what to do?
Did you purchase a personal name and, at the place where you have it, set the www CNAME to web.mac.com? Or arrange ordinary forwarding?
Could you provide your personal domain name plus the name you gave your site inside the iWeb app?

Using your personal domain name in .Mac/iWeb?

Hi people, just a question about using my personal domain name which I have from UKreg.
Anyone know how to use this in iWeb? I have looked at a few sites explaining it, but looks like a hard task!
Thanks : )

It's very easy actually. Follow the directions and links here:
http://www.mac.com/web/en/Tips/185DE18A-73AB-4E9D-8BD4-A2A75A1C95CF.html
A couple clicks now that you already have your domain registered.
-stoneman

Using Multiple "Personal Domains"

I have several different websites that I have created in my iWeb 08. I currently have all of them published under the same domain file. I have purchased and use 3 different domains www.heavensdooronline.com, www.dalevillechristian.org, and www.jcdcyouth.com that are all re-directed to the corresponding iWeb website that I've created for them. I would like to know if I can use the "personal Domains" and have each of the 3 different websites automatically re-direct without having to "cloak" them so that people don't see a HUGE url, as in the past. Any help would be appreciated! Thanks!
Mark

Mark:
You can only have one site setup via the .Mac's setup option in the iWeb->File->Setup Personal Domain menu option. For the other two you'll need to have domain name forwarding established by the name provider. I think it would be best to separate the three sites into their own domain files.
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. With each of the three having a separate domain name this will lessen thee chance of anything getting messed up as could happen if all three sites were in the same domain.sites2 file. You might want to do some editing on a site but not publish right away. With separate files you can do that.
Also be sure to keep a frequent backup copy of the domain.sites file(s) by using Varkgirl's Automator application. You can get it Varkgirl's iWeb Tips and Tricks site.

"Your site has been published to Mobile Me using your personal domain"

When I have done some editing to my site within iWeb I get invited to visit site now, or announce site etc in a window - trouble is window says "Your site has been published to Mobile me using your personal domain" BUT personal domain in my account settings IS NOT the address of my site - which is http://web.me.com/etc....How do I get that window at the end of editing to take me to my site?
(I note in my account settings that I could delete 'personal domain').
At the moment at the end of editing and site is published, I need to close that little window which opens, and then navigate to my site in Safari - Help please.
Thanks
Gareth

Okay, what you need to understand is that MobileMe does not give you a domain name at all, so unless you go to a domain name registrar and actually pay for a register the domain name gareth-sansom.com it is not your domain name.
MobileMe does not register domain names, all it does is enable you to host your website built with iWeb by publishing it to your iDisk.
gsansom is your MobileMe username which you cannot change and you cannot get rid of, so your MME url is always going to be http://web.me.com/username/sitename, so in your case http://web.me.com/gasnsom/ on its own or followed by sitename depending on the number of sites that you have.
The only reason that you would enter a domain name that you have purchased into the personal domain name section in your MobileMe account is if you want to forward it to your MobileMe site. You don't at the moment, so you do not need to enter anything in here - simply publish to MobileMe and your site will then be visible - don't enter a domain name that is not yours and has not been registered.
If you want to register www.gareth-sansom.com as a domain name, then by all means have a look at GoDaddy and see if it is available and purchase it.
gsansom is your MobileMe username which you cannot change. The only way you can change this is by registering for another MobileMe account and using a different username.

How to publish changes when using a personal domain

Hi,
I am about to publish my first website using MobileMe but with a personal domain.
I have learned how to publish the site for the first time using File>Set up personal domain but what do I use when I want to publish any changes ?
Do I use the File>Publish to MobileMe option or some other method ?
Thank you

f1stevef wrote:
Do I use the File>Publish to MobileMe option...?
Yes. You can read more about using personal domains with iWeb here.

HELP! Can I view a site I created with iWeb using a personal domain?

Sorry in advance if this question has already been addressed. I too am sort of a newbie to iWeb. I just purchased a domain name through Google Apps. I would like to create my website through iWeb using the domain name ("www.youngvoters08.com") that I already purchased through Google Apps.
At this point, I'm incredibly confused. Is it possible to type in my domain URL (that I purchased through Google Apps) and have my iWeb website come up? I set up my personal domain through .Mac and I even tried publishing its contents to a folder (that was even more confusing). The personal domain option says it will take up to 48 hours to link to my domain.
All I want for Christmas is to be able to type in "www.youngvoters08.com" and be directed to the site I created on iWeb (as opposed to creating my site through Google Apps). Is this at all possible? And does it require me to be patient for 48 hours?
I'm afraid that the .Mac personal domain option means that I have to have already created a website with another service provider, and it doesn't mean that the personal domain I already purchased ("www.youngvoters08.com") will take me to the website I created through iWeb. I'm also weary that I wasted $10.00 by buying a personal domain through Google Apps, especially if I cannot create the contents of my website through iWeb.
Did that make any sense at all??? (Sorry for the confusion and redundancy:)

If you have both sites on one domain file - that is they both load into iWeb at once - click on the name of site 2 in the sidebar and drag it to the top of the list so that it is now in the #1 position. Now do a "Publish all to .Mac".
Your domain name URL is being directed to the index.html file in the Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites folder. This file opens the site that is at the top of the list in iWeb or, if you are publishing your sites individually, the last site that you uploaded.

Using my Personal Domain Name on a trial version of .Mac?

Okay, I have a trial version of .mac, and am very happy with it. I used Iweb to build a good website for my artwork, and I'm all set to publish. But I want to put my registered domain name to my new site, so when you type the simple domain name (ex: "www.site.com") my .mac site that I built on Iweb will show up.
I have a previously-built site hosted by a different company where my domain name used to point. After calling the company where I bought the domain name, they had me redirect the name so it points to .mac. It didn't work. When I type in my domain name (ex:"www.site.com"), the old site comes up.
I went onto the help section of Iweb, which says to log into .mac, and in the account info section, press a button that says something about personal domains. _THERE IS NO BUTTON THERE_!!! Is it becuase I only have the trial version of .mac? I intend to buy the full version, but I wanted to play with my free trial memebership first. If I have to, though, I'll just buy the full version so I can add my personal domain name to the .mac site.
Has anyone come across the answer for this? I'm inexperienced with hosting and domains and all that...the answers I've gotten from emails are like greek to me. Can anyone help?

Is it becuase I only have the trial version of .mac?
Yes.
You should still be able to point your personal name to your .Mac site via ordinary forwarding/masking, where you normally just type http://web.mac.com/username into a form at the place which holds your name.

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

How to 'Hide' real domain when using a personal domain name

Hello!
I'd be grateful if anyone has a solution for the following:
I use a personal '.co.uk' domain name for e-mailing, but my 'real' domain (from my ISP) shows up to the recipient when I send e-mails.
I remember from my days of using Windows that there was a way of hiding it in Outlook Express (in an article I read about personal domain use). Is there a way of hiding my 'real' domain in Mail?
Just to clarify how I'm set up with my personal domain: I bought it off 1&1 who then activated it for mail forwarding with, of course, my 'real' domain e-mail address as the destination.
Any advice would be gratefully received.

Well, you set the From: address that will appear on the email in Preferences, Accounts, Account information. (You can even add multiple email addresses in the Email address line -- just separate them with commas. Then you can select which From: address to use.)
Anyone who looks at the complete message will still be able to see where it came from, but the From: field will be what you intend.
-fred

Streamloader error in picture gallery using personal domain

I've upgraded my site to iWeb '08 and added a Picture Gallery page to aggregate all my different picture pages. Everything works great when I'm viewing it using my web.mac.com/ URL. However, if I navigate to the page using my personal domain, which I've set up, the gallery doesn't work correctly on either Safari (mac) or IE (pc), I only get the shell page and no pictures galleries.
Works:
http://web.mac.com/ppmolina/main/Pictures/Pictures.html
Doesn't work:
http://www.molinafamily.us/main/Pictures/Pictures.html
Using the domain URL, I get these errors for each of my galleries:
Safari doesn't indicate any type of error.
IE shows these errors:
Line: 507 (it shows one error for each of my galleries)
Char: 1
Error: Permission Denied
Code: 0
URL: http://molinafamily.us/main/Pictures/streamloader.html?scriptURL=Pages/GreenbushPic_Page_files/Greenbush_PicPage.js&id=gridEntry2
Anyone else having this problem? Suggestions on how to fix it?

I am having that exact same problem, but it only started recently. I thought it was due to some adsense ads that I placed at the bottom of each page, but after I removed them the pictures still don't work. I have tried everything I can think of, but it only works if I use my web.mac.com instead of my domain.
I have only tried viewing it in Firefox, but I'm assuming the same problem will occur in IE and Safari as well.
Works:
http://web.mac.com/sheazle/SheazleSite/RegularPhotos/RegularPhotos.html
Doesn't Work:
http://www.sheazle.com/SheazleSite/RegularPhotos/RegularPhotos.html

How to use iPhoto web gallery with iWeb & personal domain name

So, another question about iWeb 08:
I've set up my site to use a personal domain name, like www.mypersonaldomain.com. I've configured everything with my DNS settings so that it actually points to my iWeb site, and I'm happy about that.
However, I've imported a few iPhoto '08 web galleries into my site, but when I browse to them by going to www.mypersonaldomain.com and clicking on the link for my gallery, it goes to a URL that actually shows my .mac account, i.e. gallery.mac.com/sockdaddy/gallery1/photo.jpg
Is there any way to have the web galleries that I'm using become a more transparent part of my iWeb site, and use my personal domain?

I've never done this on .Mac but I do use this on my server. I don't see why it wouldn't work.
In iPhoto select your web gallery and in the "file" menu select "export" and then "Web Page".
Select your options and click "Export" to the desktop.
There are now 4 folders and an index.html file.
Change the name of the index file to whatever you want to call the page e.g WebGallery.html
Now go to Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites and open your website folder.
Drag and drop the 4 folders and the html file from your desktop into this.
Create a link to this from your website in the "link" inspector and choose "external page".
The URL for the link will be the same as any other page on your site except WebGallery is substituted for the page name.
If you check the "open link in new window" you won't have to worry about the fact that you don't have a link back to your site from the WebGallery page.

Two websites-one with .Mac and one with .Mac using personal domain

Good Day All! I know I asked this before but I think the question got wrapped in with another and I don't see that it has been answered. If I overlooked it I apologize for the duplicate post.
I have a .Mac subscription with one published website already. I am working on another website now in iWeb but I want to publish it using a personal domain name. Can I do this? If so, can I keep them from being linked together?? Does that make sense? Thanks! quinlis

Aloha,
if you use CNAME both sites will be reachable using either the CNAME or the web.mac.com/username/ address
if you use Webforwarding entering the personal domain will get to the site you pointed the domain to
but that site will also be reachable through web.mac.com/username/sitename/
I'd recommend you to use webforward with cloaking/masking/framing in your case. Thus the site you want to have the personal domain for will show the personal domain in the browser and will also be reachable through web.mac.com/username/sitename/ but your other website will not be reachable through your personal domain.
Note that using masking google will not index the content of your pages using your personal domain if you're interested in that.
Have a look at the following page for further information on setup and knowing what's CNAME, Febforward, Webforward with cloaking
http://alyeska.altervista.org/en/iWeb_Domains.html
I guess the best way would be having a family account or two .mac accounts so you can set it up as CNAME and your other site would be published to another account or sub-account and thus not reachable using your personal domain.
Regards,
Cédric

Personal domain and idisk

Hi, my question is, can i use the idisk to host my own personal website that is currently being hosted at another site, and use my own domain name? I am not using iweb but i do have idisk. I simply want to move my current website thats being hosted elsewhere to my idisk and use my personal domain.
Rob

Welcome to the Apple Discussions.
can i use the idisk to host my own personal website that is currently being hosted at another site, and use my own domain name?
Yes. Just copy the folder and files that you put on the other server onto your iDisk in the Web/Sites folder. You should have an index.html file and a folder with the site files. Have your domain name provider point the name to "http://web.mac.com/your account name/". As long as there is only one site in that folder and one index.html file (outside of the site folder) that will do it.

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