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Posted by michael Fitzgerald
michael Fitzgerald
1,959 Points

Isn't calling every new file "index.html" confusing?

Do you always have to save the home page of a website as "index.html"?

If so, doesn't this quickly become confusing?

5 Answers

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

No. You're saving it in it's own folder so the names don't conflict unless they are in the same directory. If you have two index.php files, your site is going to break so it's not something that should ever be a problem or an occurrence.

Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points
Matt Campbell
Matt Campbell
9,767 Points

Why would it become confusing? All homepages are index.html or index.php. There's only one per project so, there's only one in each directory. And yes you do. Web servers look for index.php first. You could call it something else but then your url would be domain.com/something.

michael Fitzgerald
michael Fitzgerald
1,959 Points
michael Fitzgerald
michael Fitzgerald
1,959 Points

Sorry, I should have been more specific:

When you are coding the page on sublime 2 (or whatever you use) and saving the file to your computer, surely you can only save the file as "index.html" once before your computer says "This file already exists, do you want to replace it?".

Would you save your file as index with the project name? For instance "index1/smellslikebaking.html"? In order to stop the name being seen as replicated by your computer?

Thanks for your answer though!

Luke Ward
Luke Ward
9,154 Points
Luke Ward
Luke Ward
9,154 Points

Each website is in its own separate folder. Every folder on your computer can have an index.html/index.php file. You just cant have two in one folder if you get what I mean.

michael Fitzgerald
michael Fitzgerald
1,959 Points
michael Fitzgerald
michael Fitzgerald
1,959 Points

Well that's cleared that up!

Thanks a lot for your help guys.