[X4U] Hosting on Dot Mac

[Tom Renaud]

On Nov 12, 2007, at 9:05 AM, Neil Laubenthal wrote:

> Quoting Daly Jessup <jessup at san.rr.com>:
>
>> iWeb is most decidedly not needed.
>
>> Here's a quick sample of a URL for a file I put in my Public  
>> folder on
>> the iDisk, just to show you the URL:
>
> True . . .but I'm wondering about the "personal domain option" that  
> Dot Mac has now along with the option in iWeb 08 to specify a  
> domain. That way you don't need the homepage.mac.com part because  
> you've specified in Dot Mac that they are to host domain_name.net  
> and then set the DNS entry for domain_name.net to point to  
> homepage.mac.com.
>
> Once you set the Dot Mac personal domain preference, it tell you  
> what to point the DNS to and it's a generic thing not domain  
> specific. My impression is that internally Dot Mac points  
> domain_name.net to some path on the appropriate iDisk. Their  
> documentation for using this feature says that it requires iWeb  
> 08 . . . but if my surmise is correct then it would just be a  
> matter of creating the 'correct' structure on the iDisk and then  
> setting the Dot Mac preference and DNS.
>

If you use the personal domain, it uses /Web/Sites instead of /Sites.

Since I already had my site in /Sites I put an index.html file in / 
Web/Sites that redirects it to /Sites so I didn't have to move  
everything.  I use GoLive to manage my site, not iWeb.

Hope this helps.