Are you hosting your website on a ātraditionalā hosting plan i.e is it on a linux server, and what is your website address going to be e.g https://www.mywebsite.com and what was your old website address?
If you are hosting your site as suggested above then If it were me I would have a good clear out before uploading a new sparkle website to it.
But be careful what you delete!
in the public_html folder there will be a cgi-bin, whatever you do DO NOT DELETE THIS - sorry about the caps but it is a warning
Any other files and folders such as index.html and subfolders from the previous iWeb can safely be deleted.
I have never used iWeb so I donāt know how it hosts the files etc. Maybe someone else can also suggest some help in this regard.
As Duncan will say at times the hosting servers can be a bit tricky?
This is how I have set one up for one of my clientsā¦ Iām using a subfolder called ā/devāā¦
@gbolton, Ok just to make sureā¦ are you hosting with a hosting provider and do you have access to a cPanel which is the interface to your hosting package. Or are you self-hosting?
I think if you are trying to publish to httpdocs then your web address would be http://mywebsite.com but if Iām not mistaken if you try and publish to http://www.mywebsite.com then the public_html folder is an alias for the āwwwā part of you website address.
I think that is correct, my apologies if it is misleading information.
@gbolton, Ok strange then. With @rimram help Iām sure we are close but maybe @duncan can take a look and help your further? It might be something we have missed!..
Thanks so much guys, yes finally sorted. There was an issue with the host (server pointing to wrong location/IP address in the changeover) Thank you for your willingness to help much appreciated