I can't get my home page to be my parent directory. What do I do?

Hi Garrett,

I think I understand your question, but I will re-write just incase.

You are building a website and want the homepage to be the url without the page name at the end?

Like: www.jcpenny.com not: www.jcpenny.com/home.html

This depends greatly on the language you are using and the setup of your server. You can change the default page in your server settings.

HTML

index.html

PHP

index.php

ASP VB

default.asp

You need to do some routing on the server side. There are courses in Treehouse about that topic for every language.

Routing means basically to provide a file to the client (HTML or PHP) after a http request is made to the server with a certain route.

for example when you have http://www.yourwebsite.com/, your route is the last "/" (the "root" route). then the server must have a route function that says (in pseudocode):

if (http get-request with route "/"){ render(somefile.html) }

I hope it's clear enough.