HELP with Home page not loading

**Urfixable** · 17 May 2009, 01:19 PM

First I want to commend who ever designed this program... excellent. I am telling all of my friends that are interested in web design.

Second... I must of did something wrong. I created a website ... uploaded it with no problems...(did not use a template). I customized one from scratch. The website runs only if I use the (index.html) extension (www.example.com/index.html. What am I doing wrong?

**Sebastian** · 17 May 2009, 01:41 PM

Hi,

rename the index.htm to index.html and try it again.

**Soquili** · 17 May 2009, 02:32 PM

Hi Urfixable,

Welcome to Talkgraphics.

Would you provide the URL for your site so we can take a look?

It may be that your site expects the main page to be named index.html rather than the default index.htm created by Web Designer.

**ginger44** · 17 May 2009, 02:54 PM

Originally Posted by Sebastian

Hi,

rename the index.html to index.htm and try it again.

Your page when loading to your isp should be named 'index.html' only

**ss-kalm** · 17 May 2009, 03:19 PM

Typically, a site will use either the index.html or index.htm files depending what it has. However, if you are updating a site that has a index.html file with the index.htm file, obviously it's not going to overwrite it as the file extensions are different. Web servers will use the html extension as a preference. You can either rename index.htm as index.html or delete the original index.html file. Both methods should work.

**Urfixable** · 17 May 2009, 07:30 PM

Originally Posted by Soquili

Hi Urfixable,

Welcome to Talkgraphics.

Would you provide the URL for your site so we can take a look?

It may be that your site expects the main page to be named index.html rather than the default index.htm created by Web Designer.

I tried both htm and html same problem

www.yourmindprint.com/index.html

**Sebastian** · 17 May 2009, 07:37 PM

Hi,

Originally Posted by Urfixable

www.yourmindprint.com/index.html

it is funny

Your INDEX.HTML is a directory. The complete URL is http://www.yourmindprint.com/index.html/index.htm

Sebastian

**Urfixable** · 17 May 2009, 07:56 PM

What do you suggest?

**Sebastian** · 17 May 2009, 08:05 PM

Check your Settings under Web-Properties -> Publish.
Upload a screenshot of your settings.

**Ross Macintosh** · 17 May 2009, 08:11 PM

Site is there at this url: http://www.yourmindprint.com/index.htm/
I don't know what you mean about it not working -- seems it is if you have the url correct.

Regards, Ross