Question on Website Creation

Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 11 Jul 2004 12:40 pm

Question fro those of you who have experience in doing your own website:

I am working on a website, upload through FTP always works fine, all of a sudden I get something different when I try to access the website through the net: As first page I don't get the regular start page, but a white page with the title "Index of/" , then a list with "Parent Directory" plus a list of all the files contained in the site. I still can access the site if I click on the folder "Index.htm" but everybody who tries to access the site has to go through that page. Why is that? Is there any way to eliminate that page and go to the main page of the website directly?

Thanks and Kind Regards, Walter
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf

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[This message was edited by Walter Stettner on 11 July 2004 at 01:41 PM.][This message was edited by Walter Stettner on 11 July 2004 at 01:42 PM.]

William Peters · Post by **William Peters** » 11 Jul 2004 12:57 pm

Walter,

index.htm should NOT be a folder. It must me an html file which contains the home page for the site. On my webserver, which runs Apache, the file must be named "index.htm" or "index.html" to work. "Index.htm" does not work, since Apache and Unix are case sensitive.

You might try renaming your Index.htm to index.htm

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Bill

http://www.wgpeters.com
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Walter Stettner · Post by **Walter Stettner** » 12 Jul 2004 7:26 am

Hey Bill, thanks so much, that was the solution - just tried it and it worked immediately! You're the man!

Thanks again and best regards,
Walter
www.austriansteelguitar.at.tf

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