.mac and domain publishing

Hi,

If I add my own domain to .mac so I can publish my work site will every site I create publish to my work domain address. I've created a new iweb version of my business site but also have a family site just created when I got iweb. All i want is so that my business site goes to my own domain address and my family site just has the default address that .mac gives it.

cheers

So has anybody actually used there own domain when using .mac?

not really sure what your asking,
do you have a .mac account?

if your meaning can you create a web page within iWeb and then have it set so when you type in www.something.com it goes to your iWeb page. Then yes this can be done,
when you create a webpage in iWeb and publish it to you .mac account it gets saved as something along the lines as, www.web.mac.username.com

what you have to do is go to the host of your domain name and log in. there will be somewhere where you can manage domains, you now need to select your domain name and choose fowarding. and then forward it to your .mac address.


also you might want to check out the web design and hosting forum, im sure someone there will be able to help.

hope this kinda makes sense,
sorry if it doesnt.

hi,

yes I do have a .mac account. I'll check out the web design and hosting forum.

cheers

I have done this. If you are hosting your own site with another provider, you can not use iWeb to upload the site data. You have to save the iWeb data as a file and then manually upload it via FTP.

If you are using .Mac to host your site, you have to go to your domain seller and point the DNS servers to Apples .Mac servers. If you log onto .Mac it will explain this and walk you through it. This effectively removes your domain from a 3rd party's servers.

If you are using .Mac, either with your own domain or the .Mac domain, you simply click "Publish" from iWeb. If you have multiple iWeb accounts you can tell iWeb which one to send it to.

baggss said:

I have done this. If you are hosting your own site with another provider, you can not use iWeb to upload the site data. You have to save the iWeb data as a file and then manually upload it via FTP.

If you are using .Mac to host your site, you have to go to your domain seller and point the DNS servers to Apples .Mac servers. If you log onto .Mac it will explain this and walk you through it. This effectively removes your domain from a 3rd party's servers.

If you are using .Mac, either with your own domain or the .Mac domain, you simply click "Publish" from iWeb. If you have multiple iWeb accounts you can tell iWeb which one to send it to.

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Finally the answer I wanted.

cheers mate