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*another* how to publish iweb for free?

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sweatmonkey

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Sep 28, 2008
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i'd imagine that this question is asked a lot but i cant find a definite answer.
i have just created website through iweb and want to upload it but don't want to fork out £100 for mobile me. whats the best way to publish my website onsite online for free (or a one off payment under £10/$20)
 
sweatmonkey said:
what free space?? (im not with the extortion that is mobileme.)
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Most ISPs give their users some amount of "free" space on a web server. Normally it's not a lot. Check with yours.

Other then that you can set up a web server on your own computer at home. The web server comes with Mac OS X all you have to do in enable it. Then you forward port 80 in your router to your computer. The disadvantage of this is that you will have to run the computer 24/7 and you may have a slow connection.
 
ChrisA said:
...The disadvantage of this is that you will have to run the computer 24/7 and you may have a slow connection.
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Not to mention being a huge security target as well as possibly capping out on your bandwidth max.

If you are just playing around with it, I would stay with the "free" web space you probably have with your current ISP until you need more space or more bandwidth.

I currently use Rapidweaver 4.1.3 to create sites and Rapidweaver also has built in ftp capabilities to publish the site to my ISP's servers as well. It works really slick and is enough for me until I know how to manually write more custom code.
 
I would check out the Freewebspace forums here
Theres a bunch of free hosts there, just depends if you want ads on your site or not :p
 
No such thing as a free lunch!

Code: 
<!-- www.000webhost.com Analytics Code -->
<script type="text/javascript">
var websiteID='cis184project.site50.net';
</script>
<script type="text/javascript" src="http://analytics.hosting24.com/s.php"></script>

<noscript>
<a href="http://www.hosting24.com/"><img src="http://analytics.hosting24.com/s.php?websiteID=cis184project.site50.net" alt="web hosting" /></a>
</noscript>
<!-- End Of Code -->
 
How do i check the ISP or whatever it is.

ChrisA said:
Most ISPs give their users some amount of "free" space on a web server. Normally it's not a lot. Check with yours.

Other then that you can set up a web server on your own computer at home. The web server comes with Mac OS X all you have to do in enable it. Then you forward port 80 in your router to your computer. The disadvantage of this is that you will have to run the computer 24/7 and you may have a slow connection.
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mathcolo said:
I'd always suggest 000webhost.com.

They offer quite a lot for a very small price ($0.00:)) and would definitely support iWeb by publishing to a folder and then uploading via FTP to their servers using Cyberduck.
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I have a friend that tried this. Signed up for free hosting, and downloaded CyberDuck. Uploaded his iWeb site and it only shows an error.

Can anyone else help with this?
 
DesignerOnMac said:
Error message: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/a1353727/public_html/index.html on line 1
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Ah, I thought you were getting the error in Cyberduck. This error is often caused by either a UTF-8 BOM at the very start of the file or the web host is processing the <? on the XML declaration line as PHP, which is why you get a PHP error. Here's a page at Apple that discusses this and says to contact the web host about the issue. The PHP configuration file can be set to recognize <? as the start of PHP code, but it can also be set to only recognize <?php as PHP code. The latter is what the host needs in your case.
 
mathcolo said:
I'd always suggest 000webhost.com.

They offer quite a lot for a very small price ($0.00:)) and would definitely support iWeb by publishing to a folder and then uploading via FTP to their servers using Cyberduck.
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I just signed up for a site on 000webhost.com, and I have finished my iWeb site. Now how do I upload that onto my new site and use it? I'm very new to this, so any help would be appreciated.
 
mknabster said:
I just signed up for a site on 000webhost.com, and I have finished my iWeb site. Now how do I upload that onto my new site and use it? I'm very new to this, so any help would be appreciated.
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I am not very familiar with iWeb, but I am pretty sure you'll need a FTP program (like Cyber Duck or Transmit) to upload your files.

Read over 000webhost.com's FAQ, too:

http://www.000webhost.com/faq.php

Have fun!
 
Ok I have Cyberduck now, but how do I import it out of iWeb? I have tried and it keeps doing the MobileMe thing, it doesn't give me any other option.

Edit: You know what, I Googled it, and it turns out it's hidden somewhere else in iWeb, but I was able to find it. Now i'm having an issue where i'm getting this parsing error. I tried the FTP straight through iWeb and Cyberduck, but both give the same error.

This was the error: Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING in /home/a3523114/public_html/MK_Studios/index.html on line 1
 
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