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

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

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

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    I have never published a web site before and this is a first time for me.
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    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.
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    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 do I use my own domain name  with Mac server with iWeb

    For a number of years I have had my own domain name that when typed into a browser it would redirect the browser to my site on the .Mac server. I hear with iLife ’08 I can have my own domain name hosted by .Mac so I know longer have to have the long addresses for each pages the I have now for my site (i.e. the http://web.mac.com/thewildhearts/WildheartPhotography/NatureGalleries.html). How do I go about getting my domain name (wildheartphotography.com) so that Mac will host it and do I need to notify the current host that Mac will be hosting my site now?
    Thanks. I really appreciate the help I get from this forum.
    Pat

    It's very easy, really. You go to your domain control and redirect the address. IPower, for example points the domain name very easily: you just type in the URL of your site and it will point to your mac server.
    I've used GoDaddy before and it is a bit more difficult to "point".

  • 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.
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  • What is the point in this "BScatalyst" if can not use your own domain name?!

    the marketing of adobe BScatalyst is a enigma for me. What is it? when you can´t use your domain name?!

    I think you need to do a lot of research and a lot of reading.
    The point is: adobe has NOTHING TO OFFER besides the software (muse) for
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    Sorry to repeat this a lot but your not correct here as well.
    Muse came recently and is a simple tool to help get people into making sites from the graphics and design industry basically. BC Has a full template, layout and code system:
    http://docs.businesscatalyst.com/dev-assets/reference#!/module-reference/photo-galleries/m odule_photogallery.html
    It has API Access, it can be developed using any coding software from Dreamweaver to Coda 2. This for many is the primary method of creating BC websites and has been for years, even before Adobe purchased the BC company.
    It is always being updated as you can see with the new rendering engine and liquid markup:
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    The point is the CC atracts amatures, like my self, to devope sites, but
    they have NOTHING to offer on the hosting side of the work.
    Sorry, but none of this is correct. CC is a service created by Adobe to take all its software into the cloud, it is not just there to develop sites. In terms of storing your work in the cloud that is one of its primary functions. Ignoring BC and websites you can store your files, PSD's through your Creative Cloud account.
    Your post was put under moderation automatically by the forum software because how you posted it. The caps will do it.
    everything above here are without ANY interest for the common amateur muse developer. Why do you think we use muse?!
    I communicate, I read and know a lot of Muse developers, Again your not correct here as well. Sorry for repeating this but this again simply not true and pretty much everything you have said so far is that.
    A lot of Muse users develop very nice looking but basic in function websites, there are a lot who would like to do more such as eCommerce etc, you are not the norm in your thinking off what everything is from CC, BC and the web.
    CMS me here, SAAS me there, and business analysis me over again. IT IS OF NO INTEREST FOR US MILLIONS OF MUSE USERS!
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    See here:
    US Yearly Pricing | Adobe Business Catalyst
    A complementary product to Muse is HOSTING!
    Creative Cloud is Adobe moving into the Cloud space for their products and services, Muse is an entry level designer based peace of software to create basic websites. Business Catalayst is what you do not want to research into and hosting is just storage basically.
    Adobe Business Catalyst
    In terms of your website, people make sites just for family etc and put them on the web, Real domain or not you can build a site for what ever you want. But its a website and will be out there on the web. Search engines like google will index such sites so if you do not want them out there on the internet do not create them to make them available.
    I do not mean to be rude, but your comments are not valid and going no where. You not really understanding what anything is, your complaining about things are not true or things that you think do not exist when they do.
    I have been developing sites on the Business Catalyst platform for over 5 years and using other coding platforms and other CMS's for longer then that. I am considered one of the people outside BC who know the platform for the most so please trust in what I am saying here.
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    If you want to learn more about the web or building sites etc I suggest you go lean, there are many great resources out there.

  • Question about domain name and .mac

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    ~joseph

    1. Search this forum. It's discussed every minute. The topic is also above yours. Please have a look.
    [Publishing to .mac - how many domains can i have?|http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1487530&tstart=0]
    2. iWeb publishes to web.mac.com/yourdotMacId.
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    1. [Setting up .Mac to use a personal domain name|http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/member/pgs/gen367.html]
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    2. [About .Mac and personal domain names|http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/member/pgs/gen366.html]
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    3. [If you're having trouble setting up your personal domain name on .Mac|http://help.apple.com/mac2/1/help/member/pgs/gen369.html]
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  • 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.
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    I've never done this on .Mac but I do use this on my server. I don't see why it wouldn't work.
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  • A fix to personal web domain name problem between iWeb and GoDaddy

    There are numerous posts about problems with iWeb understanding both your personal name domain with and without the www.prefix. After five days, 25 calls to both Apple and GoDaddy where I was getting much conflicting advice even within each organization, and I experienced many problems such as the site not being found and iWeb asking for password authorization whenever anyone visited the site. The good news is that I was finally able to resolve the problem with these simple steps:
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    I was finally able to resolve the problem with these simple steps:
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  • Personal Domain Names in iWeb/MobileMe?

    Why is it that MobileMe will now not accept UK domain names? I have a .co.uk domain name and can no longer use it with the new MMe.
    When I first started to use iWeb and .Mac I purchased a UK domain name and had it entered in the personal domain name section and .Mac accepted it with no problem at all and I had my site redirected using the CNAME option for a long time.
    Now .Mac has become MobileMe, it will no longer accept UK domain names, only domains ending in .com, .net, .org etc. Due to this, I can no longer use the personal domain name option of my MMe account and I did not want to re-direct to my domain using web forwarding so have had to publish my site to a folder and ftp up to my host server space. Now I don't mind doing this, as it does not take that long and the whole site loads more quickly anyway, but I would just like to know why MMe does not now accept UK domain names now when .Mac always used to?
    This is irritating because it means that I am not able to use my MMe account to the full and as I live and work in the UK it did seem more appropriate to purchase a UK domain name rather than a .com or a .net.
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    What the heck is wrong with some people on this site! The guy was simply asking for advice!
    I got a similar snotty reply from someone in a post I made in which I was simply asking for advice from other users.
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