Index Files

[Alex Parz]

Ok so i am using godaddy.com as my hosting site and Front Page 2003. I have
published teh website and uploaded the files to the hosting site. My problem
is the website is still now up on the web. When i called customer support
they told me i need an index file. What is it, how can i find it in my files
in frontpage?

 

[Stefan B Rusynko]

What they are telling you is the home page of your site (before you publish it) must be named index.htm
- find the home page in your local site in FP and rename the file to index.htm, then republish it

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| Ok so i am using godaddy.com as my hosting site and Front Page 2003. I have
| published teh website and uploaded the files to the hosting site. My problem
| is the website is still now up on the web. When i called customer support
| they told me i need an index file. What is it, how can i find it in my files
| in frontpage?

 

[Paul Kelly]

What they are telling you is the home page of your site (before you
publish it) must be named index.htm
- find the home page in your local site in FP and rename the file to
index.htm, then republish it

If the site is given (as an URL) without index.htm or welcome.htm or
.... or.... then the server does not know which page to dish out when a
general address is given and so it usually dishes out the default index
page which should be your home page - so rename the first page you want
folk to come to as index.htm

This is taken from
http://www.build-your-website.co.uk/home-page.htm

"Home pages file names are by convention either index.htm, index.html,
home.htm, home.html, default.htm or default.html. Usually your web
hosting provider will tell you which to use, if not use index.htm as it
tends to be accepted by most providers.

To test that it works OK just connect to your website using the domain
name like www.build-your-website.co.uk and the home page should be
displayed"

This is from FrontPage help (2000) under "index" as the query for
answer:
"Make your home page a frames page
When you create a new web, Microsoft FrontPage creates a file named
Index.htm (or Default.htm, depending on your server) as your home page.
You can replace this default home page with an existing frames page.

In Folders view, right-click your current home page, click Rename on the
shortcut menu, note the name of the page, and then type a different
name, such as Default-old.htm."
..



Many years ago my ISP told me that they needed either index.htm or
welcome.htm as the home page.

If you do not have a home page and you send the full information in the
URL I think it works - it certainly does in my case - but it means that
the basic web site address cannot be used by your users. You need to
keep telling them the whole URL you want them to land on.

e.g.
http://www.ekbom.org.uk/medical_opinion.htm

try the following to prove the points made above
http://www.ekbom.org.uk
http://www.ekbom.org.uk/welcome.htm
these are the same page

http://www.ekbom.org.uk/index.htm

Above, welcome.htm is the page used as the home page you appear to need
index.htm as your home page.