Personal Domain Web Address

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Personal Domain Web Address

Hello. I have my domains set up successfully so when I type in my purchased domain name, it redirects me to my .Mac site. When I type my domain in though, it adds /iweb/site/home.html to the end. can I get it so that it just says http://www.myname.com/home.html instead of /iweb/site/home.html? Help is appreciated!

Mac OS X (10.5.1)

Posted on Jan 12, 2008 10:56 AM

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Answer 1

Roddy

Level 6

17,265 points

Jan 12, 2008 12:41 PM in response to Macbook Pro or iMac????

You need to have the index.html file for website in the Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites folder and have your domain directed to this.

It looks as though you still have an iWeb folder in your SItes folder which is not necessary in iWeb '08.

Both the index.html file and your Website folder should be in Finder/Go/iDisk/My iDisk/Web/Sites.

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Answer 2

Jan 12, 2008 2:16 PM in response to Roddy

I am not really understanding. could you please post a step by step process so that I don't need to see http://mysite.com/iweb/site/home.html or http://mysite.com/iweb/site/graduation.html and just see http://mysite.com/home.html or http://mysite/graduation.html. Thanks a lot help is appreciated. is this just for iweb 08 or will this process work in 06 as well? Also, when I have a PDF linked on my site, I see http://www.mysite.com/iWeb/Site/Home_files/family%20Christmas%20Letter-1.pdf and to see a simpler address? Thanks!!!

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Answer 3

Roddy

Level 6

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Jan 12, 2008 3:22 PM in response to Macbook Pro or iMac????

Are you using iWeb '06 or '08?
Are you creating a link to a PDF so that it can be downloaded?

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Answer 4

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,210 points

Jan 12, 2008 3:52 PM in response to Macbook Pro or iMac????

just see http://mysite.com/home.html or http://mysite/graduation.html.

There is no way to not see the sitename in your url in addition to the pagename.html. You can of course make the sitename as short as you like inside the iWeb app. You should be able to get rid of the "iweb" in the url just by using iWeb 08.

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Answer 5

bake5624

Level 1

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Jan 12, 2008 6:24 PM in response to Macbook Pro or iMac????

Hello, it would appear i've prematurely assigned a personal domain to my site. Is there any way to revert back to http://web.mac.com/[YourMemberName] so that when i PUBLISH, it doesn't automatically assume it should upload to my personal URL? maybe this is simple, but i'm new to iWeb. thanks.

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Answer 6

Tom Gewecke

Level 10

122,210 points

Jan 12, 2008 6:41 PM in response to bake5624

Regardless of what it says, iWeb can only upload to the same place on your iDisk that it always does.

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Answer 7

Roddy

Level 6

17,265 points

Jan 12, 2008 6:38 PM in response to bake5624

Your site is uploaded to the .Mac server. A URL is just a name that directs visitors to your site on a server.
Publish your site to .Mac as usual and enter your .Mac URL in the browser to visit it...

http://web.mac.com/username/WebsiteName/PageName.html

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Answer 8

rubenjs

Level 1

71 points

Jan 13, 2008 1:24 PM in response to Macbook Pro or iMac????

This can be fixed simply by your domain account. What kind of domain account do you have? (yahoo, goDaddy?) It is called domain masking. Hope this helps!

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