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July 21, 2005
index.html
When creating your Web site, the page that visitors first see when coming to your site is called your Homepage. This is the page that visitors go to by default when they type in the main address for your site.
This homepage can be any HTML page you want, but it must be named either index.html or default.html. For example, when you visit FTPplanet.com (http://www.FTPplanet.com), you are really going to the index.html page off the root directory or http://www.FTPplanet.com/index.html.
This is true of all subdirectories as well. For example.
http://www.FTPplanet.com/newsletter/ will actually go to the 'index.html' page in the 'newsletter' directory.
When you create your personal Web pages, remember to name the page you want as your Homepage 'index.html'.
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Well, it depends on your Web server. Most will take index.html, but some won't. IIS likes "default.html" or "default.asp". I think "index.html" is in the list somewhere, but it might not be.
And remember that Web servers have a pecking order. IIS will look for "default.asp" first, then "default.htm," then "default.html," and thing -- if it's configured too, it will start looking for "index.whatever."
It stops and serves up the first page in the list it finds.
Posted by: Deane at July 21, 2005 12:07 PM
I want to find out how to use a trackback ping on people who leave rude and obscene e-mail, that ruin my poetry at my personal email adress . I would like to know who keeps doing this . can I use this tool to find out please write back thank you.
Posted by: Emily at July 23, 2005 06:08 AM
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