publishing error- denial of permissions to publish the index

This may work. I want to publish to a remote server, and I can do this by creating a local file on my laptop. I have done this many times, but I think the preference file got corrupted. I think the key is that I need to eliminate this .plist file but I can't find it anywhere on the compulter. I'm running OS 10.8. I've never gone into terminal. I asked the IT people to do the terminal fix. I will let you know if it works.

This is so infuriating not to be able to see the library files. I can see some com.apple.program.plist files, but not the com.apple.iWeb.plist file. I have tried everything to find it, including the "go" command. It is a revelation that it might there, but hidden. Are some library preference files hidden, and others not hidden?

I will let you know what happens.

I should add that I can find all of the library files-- cache, support, preferences. But there is no iWeb file within these folders, so the problem is finding the iWeb plist files

There is a leftover library file on my desktop- I was looking there. Maybe that is not the true home library file? There is no other clearer library file under the home icon. I grabbed what this file looks like- I don't see a library or a preference file, so maybe the "Library" file is not active anymore? But it does have 2013 dates in it, so it is confusing. Is there another library file with preferences, cache etc. What other library file would it be in? And why can I find .plist files for other apple applications but not for iWeb?

Using your search technique, for the first time I was finally able to find and trash the .plist and the Cache files. Alas, it still didn't work. Any other thoughts?

It did not work.

So far, I have:

1) finally found the .plist file, and I deleted the file for iWeb. This file keeps getting recreated, but I gather that is the point.

2) deleted the Cache.db,

3) successfully 'published' the website on the local computer

4) as you just instructed, I moved the domain file from the Application support folder to the desktop then created a new folder. Then I moved the domain file back. The file in each case was called "domain."

But perhaps there is a problem here-- the new domain was empty- it asked me essentially to create a new website. I had a back up of the website I was using on dropbox, so in order to restore the file I used the "switch domain" feature and open the dropbox file. This should work in that the old .plist and cache.db had been replaced. Or perhaps I'm not creating an entirely clean preference file?

5) in an early iteration, it had worked to copy the domain onto a computer that did not have a corrupted iWeb file. On my desktop computer the website used to publish, until that system also started to give me the error about lacking the permissions to publish the index

So far it still isn't working. Any other ideas?

I wanted to update what has been extremeley helpful support. After much more trouble shooting, it turns out that the problem is not iWeb. The problem has to do with the server I was using, and how Java 7 has disrupted the server system.

I figured this out in 2 ways-- publishing to the desktop, and publishing to a different server through the FTP publishing-- both of which worked.

Thanks for your help