goddady publishing question

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goddady publishing question

I've purchased hosting and a domain name from Godaddy. Let's say it's www.mysite.com. How do I publish from iWeb to ensure that my homepage publishes at www.mysite.com? iWeb puts the "site name" into the address when it publishes (www.mysite.com/name ofsite). This means although everything loads up fine, if someone goes to www.mysite.com, all they will see is the default Godaddy page that says, "Coming Soon!"

I'm awfully green at this. Any help would be lovely.

Mac Book Pro, Mac OS X (10.6.5)

Posted on Jan 7, 2011 2:06 PM

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Answer 1

Old Toad

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Jan 7, 2011 2:15 PM in response to sherrynewtech

Welcome to the Apple Discussions. How are you publishing the site to GoDaddy now?

OT

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Answer 2

Jan 7, 2011 2:26 PM in response to Old Toad

I am publishing directly from iWeb software using ftp.

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Old Toad

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Jan 7, 2011 2:47 PM in response to sherrynewtech

Evidently, you've not setup the domain name forwarding correctly or it's taking a while for it to be activated. Check with GoDaddy customer support.

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Ethmoid

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Jan 7, 2011 2:52 PM in response to sherrynewtech

Okay. To avoid this, what you need to do is rather than using the iWeb built in ftp, download Cyberduck for free from the internet - it is a dedicated ftp programme and you need to use this to upload your site to GoDaddy.

Go to iWeb and publish your site to a local folder - so select ftp to a local folder and then you need to open Cyberduck and upload only the contents of your site folder and NOT the whole site folder itself.

If you do this, then your url will be http://www.domain.com/pagename.html rather than including the site name, as will happen if the whole site folder is uploaded.

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Ethmoid

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Jan 7, 2011 2:54 PM in response to Old Toad

OT,

How does domain name forwarding come into this at all? Did you read what the OP posted? He actually said that he had a domain name and hosting from GoDaddy and was uploading directly there - no MobileMe is involved here.

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Old Toad

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Jan 7, 2011 2:57 PM in response to Ethmoid

I'm assuming one can use CNAME forwarding for sites hosted at GoDaddy. That's the setup I was referring to. Since he's getting the Soon to come message something is amiss there.

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Ethmoid

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Jan 7, 2011 3:00 PM in response to Old Toad

No, not correct - why do you need to set up a CNAME if you are not publishing to MobileMe and you have both a domain name and hosting with the same company GoDaddy?

You only need to set up CNAME forwarding if you are forwarding your domain name to MobileMe.

The OP is not so it is not applicable here.

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