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Melissa Kerns
Melissa Kerns
8,686 Points
Posted by Melissa Kerns
Melissa Kerns
8,686 Points

No Content?

I have created my text files Nick Pettit.txt and crazy marvin.txt within the 'pages' directory. In the txt files I wrote a sentence - ex "former treehouse teacher" but this content doesn't show when I go to http://localhost:4567/crazymarvin. Only the @title shows. Why wouldn't the content show? I'm not using Workspaces - I'm using Visual Studio Code on a mac.

2 Answers

Jay McGavren
STAFF
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher
Jay McGavren
Jay McGavren
Treehouse Teacher

Try typing a space between "crazy" and "marvin" in the path in your browser's address bar. Your browser should automatically escape the space character so that the resulting URL is http://localhost:4567/crazy%20marvin. (You could also try renaming the text file so it has no space: "crazymarvin.txt".)

Tennon Barnett
Tennon Barnett
4,504 Points
Tennon Barnett
Tennon Barnett
4,504 Points

I had this issue also. I found out when I was typing out crazy marvin in my url bar, I was not capitalizing the first letter in both words. When I typed out exactly how i save the .txt file (Crazy Marvin), it display the content of the file.