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HTML

Posted by William Berry
William Berry
963 Points

HTML question

I typed this:

<!DOCTYPE HTML> <html lang="en"> <head> <meta charset="utf-8"> <title>All About Vicky</title> <link href='http://fonts.googleapis.com/css?family=Open+Sans' rel="stylesheet" type="text/css"> <link href="style.css" rel="stylesheet"> </head>
<body>

<h1> Victoria Berry</h1>

<h2> Student</h2> </body>

</html> And got this: Index of / • Vicky.html/

What happened?

William Berry
William Berry
963 Points

Seth, Thank you so much! You're the man! Bill

1 Answer

Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,415 Points
Seth Kroger
Seth Kroger
56,415 Points

When you don't request a file directly by name the web server, the software on the remote computer that sends out web pages, has to figure out what to send in response. When you request a path without an extension, like / or /about and it corresponds to a folder or directory it looks for a default file to send. That file is named "index" and usually has the extension ".html" but can be others like ".php", ".asp", etc. for files in those languages. So if index.html doesn't the server can finally default to showing a plain listing of files in the directory, which it is doing here. To show your new html file you'd either need to click on the Vicky.html or rename Vicky.html to index.html.