Comments on: MacMost Now 245: Building a MobileMe Web Site Without iWeb

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sun, 07 Aug 2011 03:22:37 +0000

Check to see how that gallery page is set up. If the permissions are set right, you shouldn’t need a password. Use the web interface for MobileMe and look at that gallery’s settings.
Better still — test using a regular server. I don’t see how you can test a non-MobileMe site properly at MobileMe. It is such a odd server environment.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Sat, 06 Aug 2011 23:45:30 +0000

Hi Garry,

I have just used rapidweaver to put a site up on my Mobileme account for testing before fit goes online properly and it keeps asking for passwords when pages are navigated to, particularly when the gallery page is opened. Any idea how to get rid of this. I don’t really want my client to have my Mobileme password

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:46:02 +0000

Try the Web/Sites folder, not the Sites folder. MobileMe changed how this works.

By: idmethods

idmethods — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:37:03 +0000

great vid, got things going in regards to my domain and even forwarding via godaddy. i then uploaded my index.hml to the site folder and also the images folder with the images needed for the page, but they are not loading. meaning the page loads completely blank, no pics showing. where or how do i need to store the images folder on iDisk to get them directed to the html file. thanks ahead of time

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:39:03 +0000

Try publishing again. Or giving it some time. If that doesn’t work, then you’ll probably need to get an expert to take a first-hand look. You can try the Genius Bar or see if you can find someone else to help.

By: kim Eubanks

kim Eubanks — Fri, 02 Jul 2010 16:36:25 +0000

i just updated some photos on iweb and published entire site again… now it does not exist! please help!! it’s my photography website!!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 16:44:09 +0000

Not sure what you mean. You can use Flash, yes. But Flash is just one element in a Web site — like images, text, video, etc.

By: Jim

Jim — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 11:31:33 +0000

Hi Gary
Could I create a site using Flash and then insert it the same way? I have tried the basic test as shown in your video, and this works!
Thanks in advance.

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 20 Jan 2010 17:21:26 +0000

Thanks very clear and helpful.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:48:07 +0000

According to Apple, Mac OS X v10.5.8 is the minimum requirement to use MobileMe. So, you would need to upgrade.
Yes, you can protect photos and videos with a password http://support.apple.com/kb/HT3334

By: Annie B

Annie B — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 17:09:51 +0000

Hey Gary,
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I have a powerbook G4 with OSX 10.4.11 Can I use Mobile Me with this computer? Also – I presume from your above video that I can create a website with password protected video?

Annie B

By: Cree

Cree — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 15:39:51 +0000

Ah! Well thank you. That was a rather dense moment if I may say so.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 14:09:42 +0000

If you have never created any sort of Web feature in MobileMe, such as a page with iWeb, or a photo gallery with iPhoto, etc., then the Web folder doesn’t exist. Just create it yourself and add a Sites folder to it.

By: Cree

Cree — Fri, 09 Oct 2009 13:04:57 +0000

Hey Gary,

I just signed up for the free trial of MobileMe last night. I googled to find your site. When I did as you directed (Finder->Go->iDisk->My iDisk) I don’t have a web folder. Did apple change something or am I for some reason not working correctly? I have Mac OS X 10.5.8. When I use the MobileMe website, I also don’t see a Web folder. I’m so confused.

I’ve tried to use the Public folder, thinking that might be the right thing, only it seems to just be a place to download files. Any idea what’s going on?

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 14:41:21 +0000

Hard to diagnose without tons more information. It sounds like you are doing the right things. Keep investigating. Look through the iWeb help. Try again and try different settings. If you still can’t figure it out, then maybe a visit to the Genius Bar.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 06:44:48 +0000

Hi Gary, can you help me with this? I was able to follow your instructions as above and also pointed my own domain name towards mobileme and that all worked fine. I couldn’t figure out how to ‘publish’ a whole page with images etc using only idisk so I started using iWeb. But when I published a simple page which iWeb said was successfully done I couldn’t get to it either with my own domain name or through my mobileme address…I keep getting ‘page not found’.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 19:59:25 +0000

Thanks – that worked!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:59:03 +0000

You can create the “Web” folder and put “Sites” in it yourself. It gets created for you if you use any of the services that will put something there — like iWeb or a Photo Gallery, etc.

By: Andrew Collins

Andrew Collins — Wed, 16 Sep 2009 18:22:45 +0000

That’s great – only one problem, when I go to i-disk it brings up the old set of folders so there’s no folder called ‘web’ even though I only just set up my mobile me account. I tried doing plain text into the ‘sites’ folder but it didn’t work – can you help….???

By: peter Everett

peter Everett — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 13:32:49 +0000

yep, that’s done it – thanks gary.

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 12:37:27 +0000

Try creating the Sites folder yourself. If you have never used iWeb or anything else to make a MobileMe site, it may not be there.

By: peter Everett

peter Everett — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 11:18:27 +0000

I have a web folder and a sites folder, both at the root level of my iDisk – but no sites folder inside web…. I want to put my own index.html page up – where should it go?

thanks!

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 12:38:16 +0000

You could use MobileMe for that yes. There is an iWeb option to set up a podcast and you could do it that way. You could also use just about any blogging service to create a podcast as well — Blogger, WordPress, etc. I super-easy way to do it would be to just use Blip.tv.

By: D

Tue, 30 Jun 2009 04:43:57 +0000

i’m trying to take the tv shows i do for my mass comm workshop and put them on itunes so people can download them for free.so basically i just need mobile me right? which will give me my URL feed since i’ve already built stuff up through garageband

By: Gary Rosenzweig

Gary Rosenzweig — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 16:23:13 +0000

You can’t really use PHP with MobileMe. You want a more traditional Web host that supports PHP.

By: Ed

Ed — Sat, 27 Jun 2009 13:32:31 +0000

Hi this really cool, but I’m working with php and I want to upload my page only with php, how do I connect to the php server or can I do that?