URL error through iWeb 09

What did you call your site in the left tool bar? If you named your site with the same name, then it will duplicate it. Try going back and calling your site something like Site and this should solve it. Then your url would be http://www.mysite.com/site.

I just found your reply to another iWeb 09 user that had the same problem I have. The suggestion you gave ended up replacing the second URL with "site". I tried to leave it blank, but it keeps on reverting to what was typed in. I am now in the process of just placing a / in there instead of "site" in hopes Google will properly pick it up in searches. Maybe I just need to find a way to save the blank space and then go for it. In any case, I am at least hopeful that with your help I am on the right track.

Many thanks, Al

I tried to leave it blank, but it keeps on reverting to what was typed in.

You can't leave it blank, you need at least one character. Use something normal like "s" and not special characters like / or space which may just mess things up.

Thanks for the tip Tom. It actually works with an /, but it shows up as an/ . I am now trying just the "s" but no doubt it will throw an s in there. Just checked and it shows as "/s/Home.html". Wish I knew if this minor change will be a problem in searches since my original URL shows up in Google search but not the new one. That brings up another question. Is there any way to remove the original URL so that searches go to the new update?

Thanks for your comments.

Al

It actually works with an /, but it shows up as an/ . I am now trying just the "s" but no doubt it will throw an s in there.

Of course, that's how it works. If you don't want anything in there, you must manually modify the site structure to remove the folder with the sitename and just leave its contents on the server. Doing that will make any RSS Subcribe buttons non-functional.

You could also try redirecting www.mysite.com to www.mysite.com/s if that's possible on your server.

Hi Tom,

Thanks for the advice. I will try to do the redirect you mention, but I think it may be beyond my ability. It may be that I will have to pay someone to show me how to get this site in order. I'm also wondering if I should go back to NVU FTP (or whatever it is called) instead of using the iWeb 09 FTP.
Thanks again, Al

The built in iWeb 09 ftp has lots of problems at the moment, so when I started using 09, I just decided not to bother with it and have since published to a local folder and uploaded using Cyberduck still.

If you upload with Cyberduck, then you should just be able to upload the contents of your Site folder rather than the whole folder itself and your url would then be http://www.domain.com/pagename, rather than sitename/pagename. Remember that RSS feeds will not work as you have broken the site structure by uploading in this way, but if you don't need this feature then it does not matter.