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I have made a second site from a second computer now my second site connects to my first. At the bottom of the iweb page it says my other website and I can't figure out how to change it. Basically my problem is that I made a 1st website and gave it a go daddy domain name. It has worked great. Now I made a 2nd site from another computer and gave it a go daddy domain name but it connects me to the 1st website!!! Now when i type in the first wed address it connects me to the second and when i type in the 2nd web address it goes to a a google page that has not been set up. I've tried apple support and nobody understands me! Can someone please help me????? These are both business websites and so business is down while these are not working.

THANK YOU FOR ANY HELP!

10.4.7, Mac OS X (10.4.7)

Posted on Jun 10, 2009 4:58 PM

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Jun 14, 2009 4:44 PM in response to Old Toad

Hello Old Toad,

No. The C-NAME record in the DNS database is you MobileMe account.

Kind regards,
Leo

Jun 14, 2009 4:51 PM in response to Old Toad

Hello Old Toad,

Old Toad wrote:

pearpeonies@me.com (dowdleflowers.com).

That's an email address. Not sure what you're referring to.

No, the OP is referring to what you see at the bottom of iWeb (the account name / domain name)

Kind regards,
Leo

Jun 14, 2009 4:56 PM in response to Old Toad

Hello Old Toad,

Yes, C-NAME is DNS stuff, it is independent of Hosting companies.

Kind regards,
Leo

Old Toad

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Jun 14, 2009 6:35 PM in response to Leo Raymaekers

So that's why if you publish multiple sites to your MMe account from individual domain files the last published site is the one that the domain name will point to. 😟 I have both of mine using the URL forwarding so don't run into that.

Thanks, Leo.

OT

brittanylee Author

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Jun 15, 2009 4:00 PM in response to Old Toad

yes I am referring to what you see at the bottom of iWeb (the account name / domain name). Thats what needs to be different. My mobile me info is http://web.me.com/pearpeonies/pear&Peonies and the other is http://web.me.com/brittanyfenton/dowdleflowers

Old Toad

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Jun 15, 2009 9:44 PM in response to Leo Raymaekers

Leo:

You're going to have to help an ailing old amphibian here. Where in the open iWeb application do you see the account name/site name? The only place in iWeb where the account name is displayed is in the Site Publishing Settings window that I can find. I don't see anything at the bottom of any window in iweb.

I'm assuming that the account name we're trying to help out here with is pearpeonies@me.com which looks like an email to me but maybe the email address was used as the account name.

Jun 16, 2009 3:36 AM in response to Old Toad

Hello Old Toad,

As a middle aged mammal, I take great pride having some distant relatives of you in my little pond in the middle of a city. They are very happy with all the damselflies and dragonflies. LOL

The account name/site name appears on the bottom of iWeb, next to the green light (green = OK)
As it reflects my personal domain name, set in MM, maybe it only shows if you have set up a personal domain name in MM ?

I presume you are logged in to MM and that iWeb has access to MM.

Here is how it looks (for me) :

!http://www.site49.eu/Experiments/screenshot_01.jpg!

Kind regards,
Leo

Old Toad

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Jun 16, 2009 10:37 AM in response to Leo Raymaekers

I did it again. I'm using iWeb 3 which does not have that in the bottom of the iWeb window. The buttons are located differently, etc. 🙂 That's twice in one day I was in the wrong forum. Got to get more sleep. Thanks for your patience (and discretion about this). 😉

brittanylee Author

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Jun 16, 2009 2:50 PM in response to Old Toad

So I am now just needing the Dowdle flowers website to work if the 2nd one can't. Is there anyway that I can just get rid of the 2nd site? I would love to have them both working but at this point I would be fine with just the first one since I seem to have really messed this one up 🙂 Thanks!

Jun 16, 2009 3:53 PM in response to brittanylee

Hello brittanylee,

Please correct if I got it wrong.

You have 2 computers, 2 MobileMe accounts, 2 websites and 2 personal domain names.

On computer 1
iWeb website : dowdleflowers
MobileMe account : brittanyfenton
Personal Domain name : www.dowdleflowers.com

On computer 2
iWeb website : pear&Peonie
MobileMe account : pearpeonies
Personal Domain name : www.pear-peonies.com

You still have problems with settings for computer 2 ?

Kind regards,
Leo

Old Toad

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Jun 16, 2009 4:37 PM in response to brittanylee

It looks like you've published the pear&peonies site to the MMe account brittanyfenton. Check the iDisk/Web/Sites folder for the brittanyfenton account and see what the site folder name is.

This URL: http://web.me.com/brittanyfenton/index.html takes me to the pear&Peonies site.

With URL forwarding I like to use the URL to the first page in the site. In the pears case it woujld be

http://web.me.com/brittanyfenton/Pear%26Peonies/Welcome.html

Of course if you move that site to the the other account, pearpeonies the URL would be

http://web.me.com/pearpeonies/Pear%26Peonies/Welcome.html

The & sign gets replaced by %26 . Using "and with no spaces would be more efficient IMO.

OT

Jun 16, 2009 5:10 PM in response to Old Toad

Old Toad wrote:
The & sign gets replaced by %26

Ahhhh, Thank you Old Toad, for reminding basic URL syntax.
For people who are used to skimmed reading %26 is a PITA.

On TUAW (and other sites) they violate this rule all the time 😟
From time to time I send them a little note.

That is why they call me a grumpy old man.

LOL !

Not so old Leo

Old Toad

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Jun 16, 2009 5:29 PM in response to Leo Raymaekers

That is why they call me a grumpy old man.

Welcome to the club! Didn't they make a movie about us: Grumpy Old Men?

Jun 16, 2009 5:33 PM in response to Old Toad

LOL !

We have the movie on DVD. Love it.

Leo

brittanylee Author

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Jun 18, 2009 3:18 PM in response to Leo Raymaekers

Yes thats right but I made the mistake of publishing both websites to brittanyfenton account. I tried to fix it after so at the bottom of the first iweb page it said brittanyfenton(www.dowdleflowers.com) and the second site said pearpeonies(www.dowdleflowers.com)

Now the 1st iweb says brittanyfenton(dowdleflowers.com)
The 2nd says pearpeonies(pear-peonies.com) but they are still not correcting right. There has to be something simple that i'm missing, it seems like I have already fixed all the hard stuff...

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