Comments on: Do Not Upgrade iLife Before You Read This

By: Tom

Tom — Thu, 05 Feb 2009 07:47:07 +0000

Well, unfortunately I have found this post in a search to fix my problem, I didn’t read this before upgrading to 09. My iWeb template is broken, in that the photo albums are not being found anymore and it is giving me all kinds of errors. I am currently re-installing iWeb 08, hopefully that will sove the problem. I moved the iWeb 09 to my desktop and it allowed me to re-install just iWeb 08 from the disc.

By: Peter Russell

Peter Russell — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 01:51:06 +0000

After some careful poking about in my MobileMe-published site I noticed that some particular pages were not publishing to a local folder. Upon investigation I discovered that some of the photo albums, whilst appearing in the sidebar in iWeb ’09, did not appear on the main albums page. It seems that, for whatever reason, iWeb ’09 had lost the links to these. I deleted the pages from the sidebar and then turned my attention to Blogs. This was the other area where I noticed that publishing seemed to have a problem.

One of the problems seemed to be that there was a link to a, by now, ‘lost’ photo album. Editing the link and then re-publishing to a local folder at last cured the problem. I have yet to publish to MobileMe, but at last things are looking good in the ‘test’ phase.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 19:16:24 +0000

FTP is working for me without issue. Send me a screenshot of your FTP settings. I’m not sure you’re going to get around the fact it publishes to a sub-folder. iWeb still does not have a setting for you to indicate WHICH of your pages is supposed to be the landing page or the “home” page. Stupid but true. Therefore, what it does is it creates an index.html file with a redirect script to take the user to the first page listed in your site. It has to do it that way because iWeb uses the page names for the literal text in the navigation menu. It can’t go changing your page name to index.html (which is required to be recognized as the landing page).

Pain in the rear yes. Really, Apple should have fixed this with the release of the FTP functionality.

They may also be thinking that the very basic of users is going to create all kinds of “sites” and then try to publish them all to the same domain (let’s all roll our eyes now) and so they may be trying to avoid an onslaught of basic user education by simply accommodating that level. They figure you people that have a clue can monkey with it yourselves and make it work the way you want.

Just an FYI about this for anyone reading… if your web host allows you to host multiple domains under your hosting account, then you have to include the domain name (or the folder name) for the site you’re publishing to, in your FTP settings. For example, I host a number of sites under my web hosting account so for my FTP Directory/Path, I had to actually type: 11mystics.com/demos/

and not plain old: demos

or: /demos

or: /

By: lance burns

lance burns — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:42:29 +0000

I publish to my own server. FYI, the built in FTP for iweb 09 is not working at all for me. I have no idea why. As far as I can tell, all users are having the same issue when publishing to a folder or an ftp. The new system I guess is forcing the site into a folder and not the root.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:43 +0000

Are you publishing to MobileMe or your own server? If you’re using your own server, check your FTP URL. You’ve probably specified the name of the site IN the URL and that’s why you have the folder in the root. Just guessing tho.

Remember to reinstall your templates when you get iLife installed. Then you can add new pages with the theme again.

By: Lance

Lance — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 15:49:21 +0000

Hi Suzanne,
I upgraded to iweb09 and didn’t keep a copy of the old version. Not a big deal because I could always do a time machine to restore the older copy. Currently my site is still up and running without any issues. I did notice that the site is now inside of another folder instead of being in the root folder. All other aspects are working correctly. I’m wondering though how do I add new pages? For the moment, I can copy and paste if I need to.

By: Peter Russell

Peter Russell — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 10:57:17 +0000

Suzanne,

I’m using Apple’s themes.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 16:55:22 +0000

Are you using one of my themes or one of Apple’s themes?

By: Peter Russell

Peter Russell — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:37:51 +0000

Hi Suzanne,

Interestingly, I logged out of MobileMe, rebooted as a precaution and then (on my MobileMe-aimed Mac), decided to publish to a local folder. I published the site a total of three times to different folders and EACH time ended up with only about 90% of the correct contents! Typically around 30Mb of each site was missing, and it wasn’t always the same content either! iWeb ’08 wasn’t totally brilliant, but at least it was consistent!

So far I have not been able to publish the site to MobileMe at all using iWeb ’09. I still get an unspecified error. Even checking the logs gives no indication of where the problem lies. I’ve fired off a report to Apple but it’s early days yet…

I do hate it when something that basically works fairly well (iWeb ’08) is “tweaked” and the whole shooting match falls apart. Smacks of poor planning and testing in the real world. However, on the up side, I find iPhoto ’09 to be superb, but haven’t tried iDVD ’09 or iMovie ’09 yet as I don’t want to become too disappointed too soon.

By: Suzanne

Suzanne — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 17:41:10 +0000

Okay so the first point here is that, correct me if I'm reading this wrong, on the machine where you use FTP, you checked the links with the inspector and found them to be correct after updating to iLIfe 09. But after publishing to to the folder, the published HTML had links structures related to your MobileMe site. If that's correct, then I would have to guess that iWeb is futzing with hyperlinks based on the fact that you're probably logged-in to MobileMe on that Mac. Now it shouldn't do that and I have no idea why it would at this point, but it sounds like that's what it did. Try logging OUT of MobileMe on that machine and THEN publish to a folder. See if that changes things. The publish error for MobileMe is a long time error that has been showing up ever since that service was available. I'm not the expert on that one, but I know the folks at the Apple iWeb forums keep a running list of possible issues that create that situation. However, considering we're only a day in to iWeb 3, no one may know yet either. The link for the iWeb 3.0 forums is: http://discussions.apple.com/forum.jspa?forumID=1309