Obviously now, being the Apple whore I am I had to get iLife ‘08 and enjoy the now 10gigs in my .Mac account. Even better is the personal domain support that’s going to be easy in iWeb ‘08 (even thinking of moving this blog to iWeb…just because I could)…or maybe not.
So I went to look at what it takes to setup iWeb ‘08 to publish to a personal domain, and am either frustrated, or just annoyed at how the support was implemented. You can’t have it upload to your current website. You can’t setup an FTP to upload to. What can you do?
Well, you click on the handy “Set Up Personal Domain” option in the File menu of iWeb, and it takes you to .Mac. You enter your domain, and all is well so far (though why do I need .Mac to publish to my personal domain?). Well the answer’s obvious - because they don’t want you uploading to your server - they want you to pay to use theirs! Even worse, once you punch in your domain, this is what you see:
Now that makes perfect sense to me…I get the concept of A records, and CNAME records and what not…but is that really Apple’s target market for iWeb users? People who have setup BIND or other DNS servers in the past? Aren’t the same people who know what a CNAME is, the same people who would likely have their own hosting already?
And this doesn’t even bring up the fact that if you have a DNS server that you can edit to set up a CNAME record, don’t you probably already have a web server you can use?
I’m sorry…but Apple, you failed on this one…
bizzyb0t | 10-Aug-07 at 9:36 pm | Permalink
I haven’t really checked this out yet. So, there’s no way to upload your iWeb ‘08 pages via FTP any other domain but .mac? Am I still able to copy it manually (from a saved folder) and upload it via Cyberduck or any other FTP client?
Thanks for your help!
Rob | 11-Aug-07 at 11:05 pm | Permalink
I couldn’t agree more, what a half baked sales ploy. You can do this on ilife’06.
I’m a real apple fan but I feel the butt of some stupid joke now.
R
bryan | 17-Aug-07 at 11:00 am | Permalink
You can still grab the files and upload them via FTP or whatever, but I was hoping from the sounds of their “personal domain support” spiel in the keynote that I could specify SSH or FTP info and have the files sent there…or even if when using .mac for hosting if it could just be domain.com/ as my site, but instead domain.com forwards to domain.com/sitename/site.html - unnecessary and ugly
Peter | 17-Sep-07 at 8:06 am | Permalink
I’m a neophyte to this stuff and just recently got a .mac account, built a website using iWeb 06 and then tried to link it to my personal domain, and yet when I type the URL into a browser, it just goes to the .Mac opening screen. my personal domain is correctly listed on my .mac account and the proper cname is set to http://web.mac.com but still no dice. Anyone know what I’m missing….? (of course, beyond a clue about building web sites…thanks to anyone patient enough to respond.)
Imo | 09-Jul-08 at 4:18 pm | Permalink
Yep, you can only use your personal domain if you’ve got a .Mac account, thus using your .Mac account as hosting space.
You can publish directly to your own domain without having a .Mac account.
1. Use iWeb ‘08 to publish to a folder.
2. Download easyiwebpublisher (free download, search google for it)
3. Use the program to upload to your own domain and hosting