Publishing to a Folder Error (iWeb 2.0.2)

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Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Publishing to a Folder Error (iWeb 2.0.2)

Hi,

I have migrated iWeb 2.0.2 to Lion (new iMac)

My experience with it is limited.

Up until today it has been OK. (I checked it opened the already made/Saved stuff)

About a week ago I created a new site within iWeb and Published this to a Folder (the same one the original stuff was stored in)

This asked to Overwrite, warned me about Copyright and created the said new site.

Launching the new site in Firefox worked.

Today I made some minor (well I thought they were) changes to the new "site" and Saved then went to Publish to Folder again.

It said there was an Error.

I get an extra "index.html" file outside the normal folder arrangement (The one below iChat 4) and the folders within the "site" are also empty (it never seems to get as far as filling them)

Without saving I tried deleting the two older sites shown in the side bar (did not Save) and then tried Publishing again.

I tried creating a new Folder but this did not work either.

The Lucy and Dafydd folder should contain four pages:-

Welcome

About the day

Directions (in a Blog style) 5 entries

Wedding List.

The whole side bar looks like this currently.

Things I remember changing:-

The "Dates" to the blog entries to make the Directions appear in the "right" order (they now range from the 18th December to 26th)

Changed the word "posted" to "created" on the date line in the blog Entry items.

Added some content to the directions entries.

Changed the Custom image for the Wedding List page (i.e blue and white wrapped gifts to keep theme colours)

I do have this site for iChat which is mostly hand coded in TacoHTMLEdit or in Dreamweaver (CS3) which is obviously quite different to the way iWeb works.

I do have the Domains.sites2 in ~/Library/Application Support/iWeb

I am not sure if this is related but if not it is a separate issue.

On the "Blog overview" with the summary of the Directions I get this at the bottom (when the page did publish the other day)

Not sure why or where to correct that.

Please treat me like a newbie on this matter as I know nothing outside of iChat 😕

10:40 PM Monday; December 26, 2011

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Posted on Dec 26, 2011 2:40 PM

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Answer 1

Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Dec 31, 2011 1:44 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Hi,

I have tried moving the Domains.sites2 files out of the cache area (to desktop and tried Publishing again without success.

I have tried copying the App from the Leopard computer I migrated it from in the first place with no change in behaviour. (I am still running around like a headless chicken)

I am getting these items in Console:-

Any ideas would help.

9:44 PM Saturday; December 31, 2011

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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Old Toad

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Dec 31, 2011 3:59 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Ralph:

Another user reported getting the same error messages on their blog page and the problem was determined to be that the entry date was missing. If you deleted the entry date replace it or if you haven't deleted the entry date try the fixe suggested in this topic: The blog page of my iWeb site says: Apple Support Communities

Happy New Year

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Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Jan 1, 2012 12:04 PM in response to Old Toad

Hi Old Toad,

I have solved this (eventually)

I did suspect the Dates in the Blog part as I changed then at one stage to have them appear in the "right" order on the "Master" page for that section. (Hence giving you the Helpful)

Other things I tried.

Moving the Domains.Sites 2 file to another computer that had a working iWeb app (seemed it was that file that was faulty as the same thing happened there.

I Checked that I could go back in Time Machine to a date/backup somewhere between the start of the new "Site on the 18th December and the day I posted this originally (26th)

Found I did not have access to my Backups !!!!

Corrected that and found I could Restore with Time Machine the Domains.Sites2 file.

I started with the oldest and "Published" that.

As that worked I they moved "forward" up to the last thing I changed before it doe not work.

I have since changed the dates again successfully and have the site uploaded on to the web.

I still have the yellow box with red edging showing up on that "blog's" master page.

See here

Any ideas on that ?

Edit. Should have read your Link first.

The Inability to Publish and the Messages are linked ? due to the removal of Blog dates ?

May be linked to a RSS feed bit ?

I thinks one of those Directions does have the date bit removed completely (the Map Overview one.)

I guess it is the link to the RSS bit that produces the error messages.

8:00 PM Sunday; January 1, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK)

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Old Toad

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Jan 1, 2012 2:00 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

I'm now over my head here. Cyclosuaurus has a deep understanding of iWeb and how it works and should have a better chance of determining exactly where the problem comes from. He figured out the issue in the topic I linked to. You might send a bat signal to him in the Lounge for help.

Thought: are you hostinhg the blog on MobileMe or a 3rd party hosting server? If a 3rd party that my be why the RSS feed is haywire. Vaguely remembger something about RSS feeds and ftp servers. Again Cyclosaurus has some answers about it.

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Answer 5

Cyclosaurus

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Jan 2, 2012 10:30 AM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

problem #1: the website url you entered in ftp window is incorrect, so your blog rss feed is incorrect.

it should be your site url starts with http and not file://localhost/Users/....

problem #2: you changed the date/time format by adding extra wording and that's bad. because iweb widgets get the info from date/time field placeholder and format it to text string. iweb widgets don't understand the extra wording and threw up errors. that's why there is no date/time in your blog summary/archive.

when you double click the date/time placheolder in blog entry; iweb pops up date/time picker, you have to stick to the picker formats.

the other option to have extra wording and get rid of the yellow error box is to delete iWebDebug.js file from your site Scripts folder.

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Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Jan 2, 2012 11:39 AM in response to Cyclosaurus

Hi Cyclosaurus,

Not sure what you mean on the first problem.

When I started this thread I only had the "Saved" Published Folder on my computer and hence any file://localhost/Users/....

I am not sure how you worked that out or if it is visible in the source for the web site now I have it on line.

I have removed the RSS bit from the Directions "front" page

For Problem 2) (Orange bit in pic) you are saying this is due to extra wording here:-

I have removed those extra words but the local view still shows the red ewdge and yellow backed text box

I have alos tried specifically highlighting the Date and choosing the Choose Date Format as shown in your Pic to no avail.

Do I have to remove that Date Box and Re-add a fresh one ?

7:39 PM Monday; January 2, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Jan 2, 2012 12:05 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Addition.

I have found I can manually edit the Directions.html in this case to be the current Live versions RSS location.

I have found there are two places on that file to be changed even though the RSS icon only appears once.

This works on my Local version.

Having said that is there any way to change this in iWeb so that it is Saved on Publish to Folder ?

I could not find a way to edit the RSS icon ( I found the current live site shows a tool tip)

I also have not found a way to insert anything called a Date option

Is it just a Text box and then a Date Selection ?

8:05 PM Monday; January 2, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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Old Toad

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Jan 2, 2012 12:57 PM in response to Cyclosaurus

Cyclosaurus:

The blog RSS feed gets the wrong url, file://localhost/Users/, because the site was published to the hard drive and uploaded instead of being published directly to the server, right?

If he had iWeb 3 and published directly to the ftp server the RSS feed would be correct.

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Answer 9

Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Jan 2, 2012 1:08 PM in response to Old Toad

Hi Old Toad,

I had surmised that the RSS feed bit got the Info from the Publish to Folder option. It was why I then went looking for the Line (or Lines) to change.

The manual Edit seems a bit extreme but would be workable if I have all the places that it should be Changed.

How does Publishing in iChat 3 differ (I thought it could only publish All or Part to MobileMe) ?

9:07 PM Monday; January 2, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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Answer 10

Old Toad

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Jan 2, 2012 1:14 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

iWeb 3 has 3 publishing options: 1 - to MobileMe, 2 - to a folder on the hard drive and 3 - to an ftp server.

When you select the direct to ftp server the RSS feed will be correct and subscriptions to slideshows will work.

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Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Jan 2, 2012 1:44 PM in response to Old Toad

Hi Old Toad,

I have an iWeb 3 that I can run from the .dmg "Disk" rather than flattening iWeb 2

I had found those options in between posts.

On my Live version I have the RSS items "sorted"

I still have the yellow backed text in the red box at the bottom of the Directions page (which seems to be linked to this earlier created issue with putting extra words in the date line (?text box ) with no dates being pulled through from the "Entries"

At present I am reluctant to delete the date Lines and just put a new Text box there and add the date (I can't see that will be any different to the edits I have so far).

I am thinking about changing Themes and back Again to see if that "corrects" it.

9:44 PM Monday; January 2, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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Answer 12

Cyclosaurus

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Jan 2, 2012 2:01 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

I forgot that you are using iweb2.

when you publish to a folder with iweb2, you need to fill out your site url here:

if you filled it with file:// , the users (using safari) get error when they click on safari rss button:

your date format error caused by iweb generated bad code. look at your blog-main.xml file, search for

iweb:dateFormat, you find EEEE, d MMMM y <-- the single y is invalid, that has to be yy or yyyy.

try to select different format in the date/time picker... this maybe a bug when iweb generates date format in european format, becasue I don't have problem in usa format.

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Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Jan 2, 2012 2:28 PM in response to Cyclosaurus

H Cyclosaurus,

I had wondered what that Line was for when Publishing to a Folder.

Thanks for that piece of Info.

I have now got iWeb 3 and have tried Publishing direct to the Site (works)

However changing Themes, changing the date format (tried before you posted) several times has not worked.

the most recent Upload still has the box.

I will look at the blog-main.xml file and see what that says.

Edit.

It does have the singe y

Other than editing that XML directly how do I sort that ?

10:14 PM Monday; January 2, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

Message was edited by: Ralph Johns (UK) Twice

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Cyclosaurus

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Jan 2, 2012 3:05 PM in response to Ralph-Johns-UK

Other than editing that XML directly how do I sort that ?

not really.

have you try to switch language setting?

in system prferences' language & text, try to set it to english (us english instead of english).

quit and relaunch iweb, see if you can get us date/time version.

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Ralph-Johns-UK Author

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Jan 2, 2012 3:18 PM in response to Cyclosaurus

OK,

Changed the System Preferences > Language and Text > Formats tab in Lion to the US and restarted iWeb.

That did not work when I Published it to a local folder.

It is late where I am right now.

Tomorrow I will try Creating a new entry and then Copy and Pasting one of the current pages before deleting the current version.

Thanks for the help so far.

11:17 PM Monday; January 2, 2012

Please, if posting Logs, do not post any Log info after the line "Binary Images for iChat"

 iMac 2.5Ghz 5i 2011 (Lion 10.7.2)
 G4/1GhzDual MDD (Leopard 10.5.8)
 MacBookPro 2Gb (Snow Leopard 10.6.8)
 Mac OS X (10.6.8),
"Limit the Logs to the Bits above Binary Images."  No, Seriously

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