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HTML How to Make a Website Adding Pages to a Website Style New Pages

Posted by Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points

I can't find the reason the preview sends me to an index of the folders!

I hope someone can help me out. Here's a screenshot of my code :/ http://i57.tinypic.com/5vppnb.png

8 Answers

Dave McFarland
STAFF
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

It needs to be index.html -- lowercase i in index.

Web servers are setup to serve a default file -- often named index.html -- when no specific file is requested. For example, when you just visit a web site like http://mysite.com/, the web server sees that there is no file specified so it looks for the default -- a file named 'index.html' and send that. Works the same when you specify a folder and not file name: http://mysite.com/folder/

Dave McFarland
STAFF
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Hi Daniel Paiewonsky Are you talking about Workspaces? When you preview a page from workspaces, it defaults to the root of the web site. You shouldn't place your index.html file inside a the subfolder named "html". Move it outside that folder up one level and when you preview, that index.html page will load.

Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points
Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points

I still get the same error, it takes me to "Index of / "

Dave McFarland
STAFF
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Do you have a file named index.html in that top level?

Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points
Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points

Yeah, the file does appear, why?

Dave McFarland
STAFF
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher
Dave McFarland
Dave McFarland
Treehouse Teacher

Not sure. Can you take a picture of your workspace and post it in here?

Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points
Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points

http://i58.tinypic.com/2ztil5j.png

Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points
Daniel Paiewonsky
Daniel Paiewonsky
1,092 Points

Yikes, finally I got it, Thanks a lot!