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Posted by Michael Bliss
Michael Bliss
289 Points

Adding page

I am in the early stages of learning how to construct websites. I am stumped on the 'adding pages to website' as I have followed the instructor's guidance through the process but for some reason the URL /about.html can still not be found by server. Preceding this notification, I copied the code from my index.html page in my workspace into my about.html page on workspace. This should have created a duplicate page of the index page upon refreshing my website. Unfortunately it did not do that and I cannot for the life of me figure out where I goofed up. I know it is a simple mistake but if anyone could provide some insight I would greatly appreciate it.

Thanks!

Mike

Jonathan Chua
Jonathan Chua
4,136 Points

Hey Michael, it's so frustrating when things don't work and there is no apparent reason! When you say the page can't be found by the server, do you mean that when you click on the "About" page link from your main page, you get a "page not found" error? If so, what is the href URL in your nav menu for "About"?

Michael Bliss
Michael Bliss
289 Points

Hi, Jonathan,

I just figured out what the issue is. I had the URL after h ref saved with lower case "about" rather than uppercase like I had saved file!

Thanks for response. Have a great day :)

Jonathan Chua
Jonathan Chua
4,136 Points

Glad you were able to track it down! Good luck on your learning!

1 Answer

Ron Horn
Ron Horn
7,591 Points
Ron Horn
Ron Horn
7,591 Points

Hi Michael,

Your file naming issue is very common, and probably one of the most common "bugs" in web development from what I've seen. I myself have gone back in to my files on a server over and over trying to fix links and such only to find that I set traps for myself by not staying consistent with my file naming.

cheers