iWeb 09 and Subfolders

[Cave Man]

Is there a way to disable the generation of the subfolder that iWeb publishes to by ftp to a remote server? I have a URL, http://www.zyzy.org/ but when I publish, iWeb insists on having those items put into a folder on the site that matches the "Site Name" in the iWeb site pub window (i.e. the iWeb site name is "zyzy" and iWeb wants to publish in [http://www.zyzy.org/). I leave "Directory/Path" blank in iWeb.

 

[angelwatt]

You can take just the contents of folder xyz and upload that, so the xyz folder itself wouldn't get uploaded. I believe that would resolve the issue. If not, you may need to clarify.

 

[Cave Man]

I can FTP the files to the root of http://www.zyzy.org/, but what I want is for iWeb to do so. Right now, I have forwarding enabled so that http://www.zyzy.org/ points to http://www.zyzy.org/zyzy/ - a bit clunky, but it works.

 

[Cave Man]

No more suggestions? Please?

 

[eclipse]

I've just sent this as a feature request to iWeb. It currently CANNOT load straight into the public_html folder.

it ALWAYS creates a folder with the same name as your site name that will sit under your server's root folder.

So what I do to prevent having my website go from example.com to example.com/example in the URL, I publish to a local folder and then drag the contents using CyberDuck (free).

Or, you could try calling your site public_html and see if that works at "tricking" the root into accepting that the iWeb directory site folder name (now called public_html) over rights the root folder on the server, so that your site sits in the root. I know it's a terrible name sitting on your iweb folder, but no one else will see it if it works.

Other than that, I've written to Mac about it and we'll see what 2010 brings.