iWeb publishing nightmare

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Hi everyone,

I just updated to iWeb 1.1 via software update, and now I can't publish anything to my .Mac page. I updated, and then made a new page (within my we site) in iWeb. I then pasted a long text-document from Pages in it, and hit Publish. It "created" the page, then said it would upload it. Well in the last step of uploading, I got an error saying "An error occurred while publishing file “/Web/Sites/iWeb/Site/Rotary-2006 files/DSC01793framed.png”."
That file path is pointing to a page (a photo album) that was already published, and had been on the web for a while. I haven't deleted any of the pictures associated with it, so I don't know why it's having a problem. But none of the pictures are in the .png format, so I think the _framed.png portion of that file path may be pointing to one of iWeb's template files.

I even tried removing that photo page and re-publishing, but then it picks another picture out of another page that, again, should not be affected with this uploading a new text-only page.

Any one had the same problem?

Thanks!

Aaron Boatwright

600 MHZ iBook, iMac 800MHz, 1.42 GHz Mac Mini,1 GB RAM in both Mini and iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6) Aiport Extreme, and express. iPod2G, Nano, and shuflle.iSight. Mac LC580.

Posted on May 15, 2006 5:40 PM

241 replies

kcmccabe

Level 1

0 points

May 16, 2006 7:51 PM in response to Guy Parrot

Ok, so when the page is red it does mean it did not update successfully. I tried to upload my site and got similar errors as reported on this string. When I did publish it, my main site was all distorted. Now, after trying again, it has reverted back to the old page but is still incredibly distorted. I guess I will have to try again tomorrow.

Jeez, I was so excited to finally have a fix to the comment issues with iWeb...I spent all night last night trying to get iComment to work (with no success). I thought I had it all figured out, but I guess not.

Boy, you (I am a relatively new user) Apple users are incredibly patient with all these glitches. If my iMac wasn't so pretty, it may have been thrown out the window by now!!!

:-D

iMac G5 Mac OS X (10.4.5)

May 16, 2006 7:58 PM in response to Jason Golden

It turned into a mish mash of what alxalx said, but when I published my site, his comments were not yet posted.
I had previously published to a folder (for back-up purposes), then deleted everything from my iDisk as well as iWeb. I then went to Library>App.support>domain. Clicked on the domain file which in turn will return everything into iWeb that was deleted.
I hit "Publish", which forced iWeb to republish everything from the top, and it worked!
My technique had no head nor tail, I just tried a few things, but it worked.
I did notice on my .Mac front page that the counter evaporated, but it remains in my site's welcome page where it was nested. Then again, my 'welcome'page does not show up on my .Mac frontpage left column, which might explain the variance. I don't know what to do to make it show up again.
I must say that the actual publishing itself was quite fast, as advertised. And I'm finally pleased with the results. But I sure as heck ain't jeoperdising my luck by attempting to modify something and republishing again.

* Guy

jlizar

Level 1

17 points

May 16, 2006 8:00 PM in response to Alxalx

When you republished, were you able to use the new comment feature and the other additional features?

May 16, 2006 8:02 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Ditto on the problems everyone else is having... unable to publish, or part of the page publishes sometimes, or some pics don't publish..it's random on which error I get.

Vic

May 16, 2006 8:13 PM in response to Guy Parrot

But I sure as heck ain't jeopardising my luck by attempting to modify something and republishing again.

Needless to say, I did anyways: I deleted the "write me" tags on a couple of pages, and watched iWeb publish only the mods, and do so rapidly, i.e. less than 30 seconds.
But it too worked on the first attempt.

* Guy

jlizar

Level 1

17 points

May 16, 2006 8:24 PM in response to Alxalx

Look for a file called “PrePublishState.plist” and
delete it.

I don't have this file in my package contents. I have other .plist's, but not that one.

Alxalx

Level 2

179 points

May 16, 2006 8:53 PM in response to jlizar

Yes: once you have followed all the steps that I posted above, open iWeb, go to your blog, make a small change (e.g. add a space at the end of a sentence). The blog page will turn red. Click Publish, and iWeb will publish that page only in a few seconds with all the commenting features enabled.

May 16, 2006 8:44 PM in response to Alxalx

This is how I got it to work (note that I don’t keep
a local copy of my iDisk on my computer-i.e., iDisk
sync is turned off in my System Preferences).

1) In iWeb go to FILE > PUBLISH TO A FOLDER and
choose a location on your computer. Once the
exporting process is complete quit iWeb.

2) Open your iDisk and delete the old iWeb files that
have been previously published in the "iWeb" folder
(WEB > SITES >IWEB).

3) Copy the files that you exported from iWeb to the
same iDisk directory (WEB > SITES >iWEB).

4) Now you have to trick iWeb into believing that it
successfully completed the “Publish All to .Mac”
operation. First of all, make sure that iWeb is not
running. Go to your HOME directory > LIBRARY >
APPLICATION SUPPORT > iWEB, and you’ll find a file
called “Domain.” [MAKE SURE YOU CREATE A BACK-UP COPY
BEFORE PROCEEDING ]. Control-click on the file
called “Domain” and choose “Show Package content.”
Look for a file called “PrePublishState.plist” and
delete it.

Alright, I'm trying it your way.. but I have questions.

1. The index.html file out side the iWeb Folder on iDisk. Do I delete it? I hope so cause I did...LOL

2. RSS Feeds Folder what should go in that folder? Will it just be updated when I run iWeb?

3. After you ran iWeb to update your website did all the features appear normally? (Comments, Search and Counter)

terrypun

Level 1

8 points

May 16, 2006 8:48 PM in response to Victor Grycenkov

Same problems as most all of you have mentioned above (and yet another wierd twist) have happened to me and after reading this notes, I agree with the results - that even though there is an error message the new web, material is actually published without comments or functional searching... but an odd thing has happened after crashing many times - and I do not have a clue what caused it ---- my Mail program has gone hay wire

Only a generic .Mac mail program remained --- all my accounts are gone! I have no clue what may have happened and don't remember it happening before. The only thing odd today was I "crashed" iWeb 3 or 4 times... It is likely that I checked my mail while iWeb was cooking (or rather smoking). Anyone know if this happens for any other known reason and is there a fix besides reconfiguring the Mail program?

Alxalx

Level 2

179 points

May 16, 2006 8:58 PM in response to jlizar

jlizer, try to publish the old way again. Once you get the error message save and close iWeb. It should appear then (you'll need to make sure that iWeb is closed, first).

Powerbook g4 12 Mac OS X (10.4.3)

jlizar

Level 1

17 points

May 16, 2006 9:24 PM in response to Alxalx

jlizer, try to publish the old way again. Once you
get the error message save and close iWeb. It should
appear then (you'll need to make sure that iWeb is
closed, first).

Thanks. I found it after republishing and quitting iWeb. I trashed the .plist, reopened iWeb, everything appeared in blue (yeah).

However, I changed a small thing and republished. It went through the regular upload (popup window with progress bar) and appeared to be uploading pages I didn't change in addition to the one I did change. It finished the regular upload and began the background upload and got a little over half way through before giving me an error message. After the error message, only the page I changed was red. The rest were still blue.

Any ideas?

May 16, 2006 9:29 PM in response to Aaron Boatwright

Strange that I'm seeing people experiencing problems I've experienced before the update. I used to experience this where random images don't load... that was way back in February when I abandoned iWeb.

However, I've not been experiencing this now. I guess I'm lucky that iWeb has been working well. That's why I've returned.

May 16, 2006 9:35 PM in response to Olivier L

I'm hoping those who say the error doesn't mean it stopped publishing is true. My problem is that this is the first time I have used iWeb. So I have no idea what the resulting URL should be like. Therefore, I can't go and check to see if it got published. What form do the URL's take? Is there a way I can predict it? Thanks.

jlizar

Level 1

17 points

May 16, 2006 9:45 PM in response to Stanley Taylor1

If you're publishing to .mac, it should look like this:

http://web.mac.com/username/iWeb/sitename/

Although your actual page names will be longer, that should get you to the index page for your site.

Note: "username" is your .mac account and "sitename" is the name you gave your site on iWeb.

May 16, 2006 9:50 PM in response to jlizar

http://web.mac.com/username also works

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