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Posted by Bryan Ramirez
Bryan Ramirez
15,089 Points

My website keeps going to a Index of/ page when I open it. How do I fix this?

How do I make my website go to my homepage when I run it?

1 Answer

elk6
elk6
22,916 Points
elk6
elk6
22,916 Points

Hi Bryan,

Make sure you have an index.html file. If you do not specify anything after your domain name, for example, you go to www.domain.com and not www.domain.com/blog, the server will try to find the index by searching for these files and in this order:

- http://domain.com/index.html
- http://domain.com/index.htm
- http://domain.com/index.php

If none of these can be found, it will simply return an index of the pages on your server. So, basically, your frontpage should be named index.html.

Good luck.

Ps. I deleted the other topic you opened since it was an exact copy. :)