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Q: iweb 08 - vimeo movie won't play when site is live

Hello. Please can someone help with this. I built a site yesterday on iWeb 08. It includes a movie downloaded from Vimeo and dropped into a movie page in iWeb.

Everything's fine on the iWeb page but there is no movie on the 'live' site. Any ideas what I've done wrong. Is there a good link (for dummies!0 to show me how to do this? Many thanks.

iMac, Mac OS X (10.6.8)

Posted on Jan 23, 2015 8:27 AM

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Q: iweb 08 - vimeo movie won't play when site is live

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  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Jan 23, 2015 9:40 AM in response to Templemeads
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    Jan 23, 2015 9:40 AM in response to Templemeads

    Check your account folder on the hosting service to make sure the video got uploaded. 

     

    Or use the File ➙ Publish Entire Site menu option to  upload all of the files again.

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  • by Templemeads,

    Templemeads Templemeads Jan 23, 2015 9:49 AM in response to Old Toad
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    Jan 23, 2015 9:49 AM in response to Old Toad

    Hello Old Toad! Thank you for your help. I'm not sure how to check the account folder in the hosting service but even before I get that far, the folder on my desktop doesn't have anyhting which looks (to me) like a movie. They are all css, png files.

  • by Old Toad,

    Old Toad Old Toad Jan 23, 2015 11:56 AM in response to Templemeads
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    Jan 23, 2015 11:56 AM in response to Templemeads

    How are you uploading the files to the server?  With iWeb 2 you'll need a 3rd party FTP client and many of those offer a Finder link window of the account folder on the server.

     

    Or you can use the free Cyberduck to upload your files and view the various folders making up your website.

  • by Templemeads,

    Templemeads Templemeads Jan 23, 2015 12:14 PM in response to Old Toad
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    Jan 23, 2015 12:14 PM in response to Old Toad

    The files are going into a folder and then to the server via Cyberduck. I have done this many times, but never with a movie on the site.

    The 'bar' with stop start and volume control appears on the live sitr, but no movie!

  • by Old Toad,Helpful

    Old Toad Old Toad Jan 23, 2015 2:13 PM in response to Templemeads
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    Jan 23, 2015 2:13 PM in response to Templemeads

    Does the movie play in the webpage from the site files on your hard drive?  If it does then the problem lies with the upload of the movie file.  you can find out which folder the movie should be in as it will be titled "Media" in the folder for that page that contains it. If that's the case you can manually upload it via CyberDuck to the correct media folder via drag and drop in the CyberDuck window.

     

    A thought:  first try clearing your browser's cache (Command+Option+E for Safari) and then reload the page.