I would like to use the web space that I get as part of my internet access thru my ISP Comcast. I would like to manage this using the iWeb software that I already have on my Mac.
So I got my account all worked out and I have access to the space. I can store files there and upload to that space via ftp. I can also create a web page using their comcastic pagemaker tools. Other people can see this webpage.
I’d like to be able to use iWeb to create the pages then upload the files created there to my comcast space so that others can see the beautiful web page that I created on my mac but I can’t seem to get it to work. When I publish the pages via iWeb, it creates an index.html and a ‘site’ folder but I can’t figure out how to then get the comcast site to stop displaying my comcastic site and display the site I created.
Does anyone out there use Comcast and have experience building a personal web site using a third party page making software?
Are you uploading the index.html page and Site folder via FTP to the Comcast space?
You may need to delete an existing index.html, index.htm, default.html or default.htm page from your FTP folder before your index.html will show up as the default page. On some Web servers, you can set up a list of possible default page names and it’s a tiered structure. So they may have index.htm set up as the top level default page and it’s overriding your index.html.
Yes, I am using ftp and I can see the files are uploaded in both the ftp client and via their site. The index and site folder are in their root directory.
What you’re saying makes sense but I can’t see any files in the space that are not files that I put there. So if they have an index that’s higher in the tier, it’s not visible to me.
Don’t know how Comcast works, but when I connect to my host it initially takes me to a top directory that one of the subdirectories is “public_html” - then I can upload my things to there.
Turns out I was doing the right thing but it just wanted me to screw with it for an hour more then I really needed to. I think the main culprit was between the chair and keyboard.
Turns out my browser was reading the page out of the cache and all I really had to do was refresh the page (well I guess that’s what it was, I cleared the cache and then everything started working exactly like I thought it should)
Future searchers, you can just put the files in your ‘/’ directory and that bypasses the comcastic web page builder.