iWeb without .Mac
For those who are worried that Apple’s new iWeb would only work with a .Mac account, one can read in a footnote on the iWeb web page that:
iWeb publishing requires Internet and webserver access (.Mac recommended).
I take that as an indication that iWeb can publish web sites to non-.Mac servers.
Comments
# William Frantz, January 24, 2007 at 00:39
Nope, iWeb only publishes to .MAC accounts. However, you can “publish” your website to a local folder and then upload the contents to your server. I found this hit helpful:
http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=20060521163026509
… if you have a webhost or server that you have shell access to, and the host runs rsync (most unix-based hosts should have rsync installed), then you can use checksums to only send files that are different. All you need to do is use rsync with the -c option. If you are removing files, you may also want to add the —delete option. For example: rsync -avc Sites/mysite/ username@webhost.com:webroot/
# Olivier, January 24, 2007 at 14:17
It still means that you don’t need a .Mac account to use iWeb, which was a recurring worry on the Mac news sites when iLife ’06 was announced.
And indeed, rsync is a blessing for web site uploading, especially when you have tried mirroring in half a dozen FTP clients and none works correctly simply because FTP was not designed to make mirroring easy.
# afnyc, July 5, 2008 at 10:15
has any figured out a way to make comments work with iWeb without using .Mac as a hosting company?