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Kenelm Tonkin
331 PointsHome page publishing at /index.html not www.myaddress.com
In the video, the index.html file publishes as the home page. When I do it, it publishes at www.myaddress.com/index.html. And at www.myaddress.com still shows
"Index of /
Index.html
Apache/2.2.24 (Unix) mod_hive/3.6 mod_ssl/2.2.24 OpenSSL/1.0.0-fips mod_auth_passthrough/2.1 mod_bwlimited/1.4 FrontPage/5.0.2.2635 mod_fcgid/2.3.6 Server at ..."
WHAT HAVE I DONE WRONG? I want my index.html file to display at www.myaddress.com, surely
4 Answers
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Pointsyou could just remove it using your .htaccess file:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
Kenelm Tonkin
331 PointsJeremy,
Thank you. Actually, I'm a rank amateur here. Are you saying I splice:
RewriteEngine On
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_URI} index.html
RewriteRule ^(.*)index.html$ /$1/ [R=301,L]
into my code and my index file will be published at www.myaddrtess.com?
I can see we are an advanced programmer.
Jeremy Germenis
29,854 Pointsdownload the .htaccess file from your hosting server or create the file (it's just a plain text document), and put these three line in it and upload it to your main website directory
Nick Pettit
Treehouse TeacherHi Kenelm Tonkin,
In your original post, it looks like your file Index.html might be capitalized. Usually this shouldn't matter, but trying changing the filename to all lowercase "index.html" and see if that fixes it. Otherwise, it's likely a server configuration issue as Jeremy Germenis pointed out.