Uploading website - How do I add an "index.html" file?

20 Sep 07 3:09 am

Have you uploaded a page called index.htm or index.html or index.asp or index.php to your new server? It should work... otherwise you are probably waiting for the DNS to catch up.

21 Sep 07 1:59 am

thanks.When I type in the home page ,which is "http://www.simplesalesadvice.com/index.html" I can see the site and navigate as well.When I type in the domain wihtout an "index",as in http://www.simplesalesadvice.com",I get nothing.Help.

21 Sep 07 3:19 am

Very quickly I can see that the reason it works when you enter "index.html" is because you've created a DIRECTORY called "index.html". All your files are inside that DIRECTORY. You can also tell this because when you navigate to any page it says you're going to (for example) simplesalesadvice.com/index.html/intro-to-adsense.html

It should say
simplesalesadvice.com/intro-to-adsense.html

I suggest that instead of using xsitepro to publish your webpages, you get an external FTP client like FileZilla (free) or CuteFTP (costs) or ANYTHING and use that to see what exactly is going on with your website structure.

Use your login details to connect to your hosting provider. The part you quoted where it says that you don't need a "home" or "start" directory is what I was talking about in my last response... the "public_html" or "httpdocs" folder. So just ignore that part.

When you connect to your site you should then be looking at the root of your website. You will see a folder called "index.html". That's the problem! You want everything that's *inside* the "index.html" folder to be *outside* it.

And THEN.... you need to have one document in the root of everything called "index.html". Note that this is a single HTML document... not a folder! This is the page that people see when they first visit your website.

domain name:simplesalesadvice.com (This is just for display, I think)
home directory: The location of the folder on your computer, I guess
ftp server: simplesalesadvice.com
ftp user name: my log in name at host
ftp password: host log in
ftp directory: / (Nothing, because your host says you don't need one)

Let us know if that works!
Mark

21 Sep 07 4:17 am

revimp wrote:Mark I really appreciate your efforts but I can't say I understand how to do this.Why did it work so easily before with another host and now i have to go through hoops to get it to work? I thought xsitepro had all of this figured out.
you said:

"When you connect to your site you should then be looking at the root of your website. You will see a folder called "index.html". That's the problem! You want everything that's *inside* the "index.html" folder to be *outside* it.

And THEN.... you need to have one document in the root of everything called "index.html". Note that this is a single HTML document... not a folder! This is the page that people see when they first visit your website."

There is no going through hoops. All you need is your login details... instead of uploading your index page you were creating a directory called that. Use Filezilla to connect via FTP and do as Mark suggested, you'll be right.

21 Sep 07 4:33 pm

You can do that yes.