Why do I have to type .htm

[Jane Here]

When I want to go to a page on my web site, I have to type .htm on the
address line, otherwise it doesn't find the page.

Some sites allow you to type in an address without the .htm, example:-
www.mysite.com/promo versus: www.mysite.com/promo.htm

Do I have to type the .htm because I built my site in FrontPage? Is there a
way to change the behavior so that it recognizes an address without .htm at
the end as a valid page?

(My host uses Unix, if that matters).

 

[Alex]

When I want to go to a page on my web site, I have to type .htm on the
address line, otherwise it doesn't find the page.

Some sites allow you to type in an address without the .htm, example:-
www.mysite.com/promo versus: www.mysite.com/promo.htm

Do I have to type the .htm because I built my site in FrontPage? Is there
a way to change the behavior so that it recognizes an address without .htm
at the end as a valid page?

(My host uses Unix, if that matters).

Jane,

When you see /promo.htm, that's the name of a page. When you see /promo,
that means "promo" is the name of a folder, in which a page named index.htm
resides.

A variation on www.mysite.com/promo is www.promo.mysite.com.

Alex

 

[Steve Easton]

You're confusing adding the file extension to a file, with opening a default page in a
folder.

In sites where you can enter www.mysite.com/promo and a page opens, you are actually
opening a default page named index.htm ( or whatever the server default is ) in a folder
named promo

Here's an example
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes

will automatically open:
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/index.htm

and either link will work the same.


--
Steve Easton
Microsoft FrontPage MVP
FP Cleaner
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/fpclean.htm
Hit Me FP
http://www.95isalive.com/fixes/HitMeFP.htm

 

[MP]

If you have a subfolder called "promo" with an index.htm file in it would
you automattically be able to use the address www.promo.mysite.com as well
or does that have to be configured some other way?

 

[Tom Willett]

www.promo.mysite.com would be a subdomain, and that's an entirely different
ballgame when it comes to setting it up on the server and dns records.
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