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Posted by Matt Wearp
Matt Wearp
2,965 Points

Problem With Website Loading

Hi, I am working on How to make a Website Html course and when I launch my workspace preview it goes to a list of links ( Index.html, about.html, css/, img/,normalize.css,) instead of going directly to the page. Also on my preview page when I switch to my about page and then back to my homepage, the homepage doesn't load instead it comes up with a 404 Not found page error. Does anyone know whats going on?

Thanks

2 Answers

Matthew Lang
Matthew Lang
13,483 Points

Hey!

A website automatically directs the user to the file named 'index.html'. For example, if you have many files, such as 'about.html contact.html index.html', when you go to the domain 'index.html' will be the first site loaded up, and is often referred to as the 'landing page'.

I believe you have perhaps misspelled your file name for 'index.html'. Make sure it has a lower case 'i', etc. This would also be the reason why when attempting to go back to the homepage, it doesn't work - since the code is told to go to 'index.html', but the file is in fact something like 'INdjex.html'.

Matt Wearp
Matt Wearp
2,965 Points
Matt Wearp
Matt Wearp
2,965 Points

Thanks so much! That was it.

Matthew Lang
Matthew Lang
13,483 Points

No problem! :))