iWeb 1.x: Password-protected sites don't publish to .Mac

Issue or symptom

When you try to publish a site to .Mac with user name and password protection, an alert message "There was an error updating .Mac" may appear. This happens if you use upper case letters in the user name.

Solution

When choosing a user name and password, use the following guidelines:

Note: This issue is resolved in iWeb 2.x.

User name

• The user name can only contain characters from this set:
  0123456789_.abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz (lower case letters only).
• It must start with a letter.
• It cannot end with a period.
• It cannot contain two periods in a row.
• It must be between 3 and 20 characters.

Password

• The password may only contain characters from this set:
  !\\"#$%&'()*+,-./0123456789:;<=>?@ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ[\\\\]^_`abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz{|} (upper or lower case letters are allowed).
• It cannot end with a period.
• It cannot contain two periods in a row.
• It must be between 6 and 20 characters.