[X4U] Hosting on Dot Mac

[David Ledger]

>From: Neil Laubenthal <neil at laubenthal.net>
>Has anybody tried hosting a personal domain at Dot Mac? According to
>Apple (both the online and the pretty much useless, canned reply I got
>when I emailed support about it) . . . using iWeb 08 is required.
>While I have nothing against Iweb 08 . . . it's limited in the number
>of templates it includes, I don't see a way to make more, and one
>might already have other ways of doing their web pages which one
>doesn't want to change.
>My guess is that actually using iWeb is not really required and that
>if you knew the correct path to put your site on Apple's site it would
>be as easy as just manually publishing your site to the right place
>once you had set the preferences in Dot Mac and fixed the DNS records.
>
>Has anybody actually used this . . .or know whether iWeb is really required?

If you mount your iDisk you'll see a 'Sites' folder. It works 
similarly to the one on your Mac. The one on your Mac appears as 
http://loopback/~username. The one on your iDisk appears as 
http://homepage.mac.com/username/ as in 
<http://homepage.mac.com/david_ledger/> (the video clips of my 
grandson were parked there for the family when he was 'new' and we 
only had 1GB, the rest being backups. Must make it a real site 
sometime). Those pages are hand coded and uploaded by drag and drop. 
I don't keep a local fast copy of my iDisk.

David


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