Web Forwarding vs Personal Domain Settings - Confused

I would be grateful if someone could shed some light on this.
1) What is the difference between using web forwarding via my registra to configuring .Mac to point to my domain ? - Are there any pros or cons ?
2) I have recently acquired two personal domains (one family, one personal) currently configured that each domain is forwarded to a specific url in .Mac is this the best way to manage two sites ?
Many Thanks

My experience with Web Forwarding on iWeb 1.1 was that that your .mac accounts URL is what appeared in the browser (person types domain and it forwarded to your .mac account). In our case, we wanted the domain to be displayed so we also enabled Web Masking which forces the domain.com to be displayed for ALL pages. Please note that Masking makes all pages have the same URL so someone cannot bookmark a particular page or send a link to a friend (all URLs point to the home page). Masking also prevented outbound links to other sites from working as we were linking pictures out to a commerce site where the item could be purchased (because displayed URL was not the actual page).
With the CNAME implementation in iWeb 2.0, the domain appears correctly in the Browser with different URLs for each page (in format www.domain.com/user/page.html). This is an improvement for us as individual pages can now be bookmarked and emailed as links.
This is solely my experience. Others, may have different opinions.

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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

Forwarding to Personal Domain AAAAHHHH?????

Hello,
A little new to this stuff and I am having trouble getting my Go Daddy personal Domain to Forward to my newly created MAC website.....anybody else have this issue? I have followed directions previously posted here and set everything up at Go daddy....but I type in my old address and it still goes to my old site! Any Suggestions?

personal = www.westphotog.com
.mac address= web.mac.com/chester0711/iWeb/West%20Photography/Title.html
I tried putting in the above (full) .mac address and.... web.mac.com/chester0711
and it still didn't work.....

Personal domain settings

I can't publish my webstite on the personal domain I bought - does someone knows where's the mistake?
A. I used my .Mac membership and iWeb '08 (2.0.2)
B. I bought my personal domain www.massimodifelice.com at http://we.register.it/
C. I went on my account at .Mac, selected "personal domain" and followed instructions
D. On the control panel of my domain name registrar's web hosting area I added the new CNAME
E. My website isn't visible, even if more than 48 hours past
these are the details that appears on the control panel of my domain name registrar's web hosting area:
CONFIGURAZIONE DNS
massimodifelice.com - MX 10 - mail.register.it
massimodifelice.com - A - 195.110.124.133
ftp.massimodifelice.com - CNAME - massimodifelice.com
web.mac.com - CNAME - massimodifelice.com
www.massimodifelice.com - CNAME - massimodifelice.com
pop.massimodifelice.com - CNAME - mail.register.it
Is that right?
Thanks

I'd suggest reading the first half of this post, it was written for GoDaddy but should be applicable.
http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=1079896&tstart=15

Publishing to a personal domain name

The Personal Domain button is missing from my Accounts Settings page. How else can I publish to my own domain?
-Tino

You have obviously entered your personal domain name into your MMe account at some stage and either set up CNAME forwarding or web forwarding for your domain. All you need to do is delete your domain name from your MMe account and then go to your domain registrar and remove the CNAME settings.
However, whether you do this or not, as Tom said, iWeb will publish to MobileMe whatever and will always publish here to you iDisk, so you can always access your site by going to web.me.com/username/sitename. Remember, that this is why you have to set up forwarding, because when you click on publish in iWeb, it never publishes straight to your domain, always you iDisk/MMe account.

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.

.mac & personal domain, so which page first?

Ok, i will try to be as clear as possible here.
Anyone who used the old style of web forwarding willl know that in order to view one particular page first (opening page) you would normally publish your website and use the url of that one page to forward with your registrar...However, i am now using .mac to forward my personal domain, but i don't understand how i get one page to load first. For example i regularly have adverts for the site which i like to open first so everyone will see it before actually entering into the main site, but now using .mac it just opens one page...luckily for me its the main page. Does anyone know or understand what im saying here? Please help!! Rob
Oh yeah, by the way, if you want to look my address is
http://www.nelsonrfc.co.uk
I have also tried putting the page i want to open first at the top of the list and that doesnt work either...
Message was edited by: robbie190975

I was under the impression it was the top page in the site.
It should be whatever page is displayed first when you go to web.mac.com/username
I don't know if that helps, but it might give you a way to experiment.

Personal domain.... easy question for someone who has done it.. easy points

If i forward my www.vegasablaze.com to mobile me from go daddy and set up the personal domain in my mobile me account will my address bar read http://www.vegasablaze.com or will it read my mobile me site address? ie http://web.me.com/example/Site/Welcome.html? See once i posted my site to godaddy i lost my blog ability. But I dont want people to se my mobile me address. So I would like to forward to personal domain. but am afraid if it goes to my mobile me it would look unprofessional..

Personal Domain replaces the web.me.com/username part of the URL with the domain name, with the subsequent folder and filenames on the end, so that to take your example of
http://web.me.com/example/Site/Welcome.html
people entering http://domainname.com
would be taken to the welcome page and the URL showing will be
http://domainname.com/Site/Welcome.html
However note that when you do this the original web.me.com URL still works and is searchable by Google. Though casual visitors to your domain won't see the real URL, it's not difficult to find it.

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.

No joy with Personal Domain

Hi,
4 days ago I changed the CNAME for my domain to web.mac.com. - including the "www" and "*" records...and set my domain in .mac's personal domain settings. I uploaded a site to .mac a few days before... But nothing's happening when i try my domain."Not Found
The requested URL / was not found on this server."
Have i stupidly left anything out?
thanks!

yeah!
http://web.mac.com/jeromeodonohoe/Site/Fade-Up/Fade-Up.html
www.fade-up.com
thanks very much

Personal Domain + web forwarding = big headache

I wrote an email to the tech people on my domain service provider, Network Solutions, because I've yet to see my website load properly.
I was directed to use web forwarding, and I set that up over the weekend. However, though I am hosted through MobileMe, my personal domain link takes me to a blank page. There had been an under construction page.
Here is my question: if I am using web forwarding, should I remove the personal domain from my Mobile Me preferences? Could that be the reason it won't work?

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. What do you mean by web forwarding? Is that CNAME or URL forwarding?
If it's the usual URL forwarding then you should not have any domain name setup in your MMe preferences. Ethmoid's post in this topic discusses how to remove it: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?messageID=8990293#8990293
Then you forward your domain name (at Network Solutions) to:
http://web.me.com/MobileMeAccount_Name/SiteName/
OT

Domain settings for more than one web page?

I am a new mac user and I love it! I recently created a web site and purchased a domain from a 3rd party and set it up to the web.mac etc;my web site works great love it. I have now purchased a second domain from a 3rd party and created my 2nd web site and I have set everything up just like the first site and it has been over 48 hours since the change and I cant seem to go to the site it says no page found? I have tried to set up personal domain for the 2nd site and it only shows the first site domain set up, and wont let me add a 2nd domain site? From my understanding you are able to manage and have several web sites? Is that correct? What am I doing wrong? Has anyone set up more than one personal domain and sites? If someone could help me I would really appreciate it. thank you very much Karen

You can only use the personal domain option once, that is CNAME, for every .Mac account. It just means that for your other website you will have to use the web forwarding option instead.
As well as DNS settings there should be web forwarding options at your hosting company. You need to go to these and then forward your domain name to web.mac.com/username/sitename.

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.

Personal Domain confusion

Ok, iWeb says you can use a Personal Domain name, and instructs you to first give them the name (ie: yourpersonaldomain.com), then to go to your registrar and "define web.me.com as the new CNAME (alias) for your domain". First off, shouldn't web.me.com include your personal user name in the information (ie: web.me.com/yourname) or something like that? 2nd, I am using GoDaddy and they don't have a "define your CNAME", but something which seems simpler: enable forwarding, where you can plug in your web address, and also a feature called Masking which hides the address. Very simple, except I can not get any of this to work. Any suggestions? Many thanks! Dave B

Dave B:
I have domain names thru GoDaddy and don't use the CNAME method. CNAME may have some benefits but since I have multiple sites that I have domain names for I opted to use the full URL for forwarding:
http://web.me.com/accountname/site_foldername/index.html.
Adding the index.html after the site folder name is optional. You could use the html file of the first page in the site if you'd like. The index.html in the site folder file just points to the first page of the site.
Here's a screenshot of the forwarding and masking windows and how I used it.
I had domain names before the CNAME was available in iWeb so never learned how to use it.
OT

Personal domain vs forwarding

Sorry, probably a bit of a dumb question for some of you - what's the difference between setting up my personal domain (iweb option), and setting up forwarding with the people who look after my domain (godaddy)?

How do the options of CNAME vs domain forwarding affect the ability to use a custom favicon on me.com? I get the impression that a custom favicon doesn't work with a forwarded domain.
On a related note, I'd like the custom favicon to only affect one specific web site subfolder --and not other web site subfolders ... for example, with the address of www.domain.com pointing to web.me.com/username/redirect-index.html and the index.html file points to a website subfolder (one of three differnet websites): (a) can the CNAME point directly to the website subfolder, or is the index.html redirect needed, and (b) where does the favicon.ico file go?
Currently I use domain forwarding (GoDaddy.com) with masking pointing directly to the website folder --but I can't get the custom favicon to work. I just get a generic file icon.

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