Can someone help?

They have: 6 posts

Joined: Mar 2004

I built a web with FrontPage and published it. Here's the problem. My home page will only display at the url mysite.com/index.html

How do I make the home page display when you simply enter mysite.com?

Simple question, but I am lost here

They have: 6 posts

Joined: Mar 2004

The url I used is not my site, just an example

The Webmistress's picture

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Joined: Feb 2001

Speak to your hosting company to see what their set up is, sounds to me like there is something a miss at their end.

s0da's picture

He has: 157 posts

Joined: Mar 2004

is this a local server? what server software are you using?

if you've purchased hosting from someplace then you'll have to ask them and they should be able to fix this.

Links:
http://webauthv3.stanford.edu/manual/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex
windows should have documentation concerning IIS servers so blah

Abhishek Reddy's picture

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Unfriendly configuration of the server may require you to use any of index.htm, default.html, default.htm, or others for the index page filename. Iirc, Brinkster required index pages to be default.htm or default.asp. If you're not managing the server, look in the provider's documentation -- any such deviation from the norm is usually recorded. Smiling

Quentin's picture

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Joined: Apr 2004

If you are using Frontpage try renaming the index.html to default.htm. Frontpage extensions recognize this as the front page in most instances.

Quentin

They have: 76 posts

Joined: Mar 2004

The last suggestion was exactly what i was going to say,

I had the same problem years ago - took ages to figure out such a simple thing Smiling

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