iWeb publishing nightmare

I have experienced similar problems with iWeb since updating to, iWeb display's an error message saying it has been unable to publish a .jpg or .png

However, when I visit my blog the site has been sucessfully uploaded, however, iWeb's Site Organise pane does not reflect this (remains red, for unpublished).

I have posted a bug report to Apple via the iWeb feedback function but I haven't heard anything yet. Perhaps other people should to?

Back on iWeb 1.0 and it just works. Will sit with this version until God makes some changes

dreamery

Guy,

The pages in the "Site Organizer" column turning blue just before the background upload begins looks like it indicates success, but it doesn't. At that moment, iWeb has finished generating all your new pages for you, but has only just begun the upload.

If/when the upload fails, the pages all turn red again.

I publish a weekly video podcast and published a new episode today. I upgraded to iWeb 1.1 and found that iWeb went through and republished the whole site (140 MB) even though I clicked to publish only the changed parts.

Good news though, the whole site was republished without any errors. I'm in the UK and started to upload at what would be 4am Cupertino time. Can't help wondering if lots of the issues people are having could be related to problems with the .Mac servers.

I always download my podcast to iTunes after uploading to .Mac. Normally this takes at most 5 minutes (8Meg connection) but today it took nearer 20 minutes.

Site: http://web.mac.com/simonjowett/iWeb/mathspodcast/Millthorpe_Maths/MillthorpeMaths.html

PowerBook G4 Mac OS X (10.4.6) 1.25 GHz 512 RAM

Finally got my site to re-publish yesterday... I used publish all to take advantage of the 1.1 optimization.

However, everything has changed to a .png! Including all my text, which was fine previously (everything except titles is in Arial). Very strange...

Since all text is now an image, it also renders the new search feature completely useless.

Also, the comment feature does not seem to work on my blog pages. At the end of each blog item, a link that says "@post" is inserted but does not take you anywhere to enter a comment (it simply reloads the page).

Check it out here: www.maitaionline.com

Republishing all a second time did not seem to help. Have a feeling I will have to make changes to each and every page on the site before re-publishing a third time for any changes to really take effect. Will keep you all posted...

Mac OS X (10.4.6)

What an inspiring web site Joe - clean, uncluttered, beautiful illustrations and photos, consistently laid out (which adds to its charm)! I felt compelled to send you a note - it's quite clear why you've won awards and have such major clients!

I hope you soon get the site running fully. Whats New returned an error message, also clicking on images did not enlarge the image. I have similar problems as posted by many users unfortunately.

John

Same problems.

I had to delete iDisk's web resources and republish all. Took a million times to get it up but it still shows red(unpublished) in iWeb.

Furthermore, none of the new features work at all. Search and comments are useless. And, all the text is in image formats.

I hope this is fixed pronto. I use iWeb for a professional site.

Even though iWeb appears to fail in Publishing,
visiting the site online shows everything except
Search, Counter and Comments. Is this the case for
everyone else?

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My point is ... iWeb seems to be publishing the site
anyway.. just leaving off the new features. So you
may get the same results with the Manual method.

Jason,

I believe you're absolutely correct. With one important note: You have to leave iWeb running for a while, so it can invisibly finish uploading the site.

In trying to sort out this problem, I fired up Activity Monitor to watch the Network activity. It turns out that iWeb keeps on Publishing (for several minutes, in my case) after the error message. iWeb will also allow you to Quit during this time, which resulted in a partially-uploaded site.

Not knowing this, I spent over 8 hours yesterday trying to upload, over and over, and saw the same error messages as everyone else. I now believe that some errors, such as "Can't read iDisk info." are due to multiple uploads conflicting with each other.

The important point is, let the upload finish before quitting iWeb. iWeb will look like it's sitting there doing nothing, but it's pretty busy. It won't say when it's done; again Activity Monitor is useful for this. Once I started using this method, my mangled site cleared up, and even the files that iWeb reported errors with were fine, and would display larger images when clicked.

I do seem to have lost my Comments functionality. I don't use counters. The Search field is present, but it doesn't find text I know is in the blog.

Same exact problem...web pages that were just fine before upgrading to 1.1 now are having to be republished only to sit through that long process to get the error code....and, on reattempts (too many) it shows the same error code but mentions a different particular photo on a different page as the "culprit". This has to be a 1.1 issue....apple, help!

error message is:
Publish Error
And error occurred while publishing file "/Web/Sites/iWeb/.........."

iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

iMac Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Vibeen,
I'm aware of that, after so many trials. But this time, I really, honestly was successful publishing the entire site: nearly 30 pages altogether.

However, my site was only for family, and not for business. So there is no need for me to constantly update day in/day out, which ought to save numerous frustrations.

* Guy

I too eventually got the whole site to publish, which is great. However,

1) It shouldn't have been so problematic in the first place, and
2) the search and comment features are still not working.

iWeb 1.1 Updated everything just fine, AFTER:

Yesterday evening, I had the same problems with updating my iWeb site:
-Picture Error
after several other tries this morning
-iDisk space error

Then I started to copy the folder from my iDisk /web/sites/iWeb to the Desktop, deleted the iWeb folder on the iDisk.
After that, I synced my iDisk but after 20 seconds, abort the sync.
Next step: I copied the iWeb Folder back to the iDisk, in the same directory where it was.

And then, I started to sync my iDisk.
I waited a little time, then started iWeb applikation (everything was shown as "red - unpublished".
I made a complete upload to the .Mac account and:
Everything went smoothly, the site showed then fine and also, Comments were still there.

The problem musst come from one or maybe several files not correctly synched after the obligatory complete upload after installing Update 1.1 ...

Hope that helps,

kind regards,

Z-1

Yes, I tried this. And variations.

However, the comments and the search still aren't working. It seems that Apple needs to update their update and fix this problem.

iMac, Intel 2.0 Mac OS X (10.4.6)

Did your site published completely after those steps?
If so, go to you pages with comments and search fields, deactivate the comment function and delete the search field.
Update your site and after that, try to add them again.

Hope that helps,

Z-1

Same boat here...created 6 picture pages on iWeb 1.0.1 and everything used to upload just fine. Now with iWeb 1.1 nothing uploads, I always get an error when it goes to upload the photos. I thought maybe one of my photos was too big, etc but they are all pretty small.

Hope Apple gets a fix for this quick!