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Christopher Sea
3,726 PointsMust the homepage be named index.htm?
I know index.htm is usually recognized this as the homepage, but does it have to be index? I only ask because I have a different websites for each Treehouse course. I have the folders clearly labeled, but I didn't want to take a chance of getting the homepages for each site mixed up (by naming all of them index.htm). Right now my homepage is HTMAW0.htm, and my about page is HTMAW1.htm. Is this an ok practice, or should the homepage always be index.htm?
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Steven Parker
231,198 PointsThe homepage is usually named index.html (or .htm) because that is typically the default file delivered by a web server. If you have access to the server's configuration, you can pick the name of the file you want as the default if you want something different.
You can always load a file other than the default by adding its name after the website URL in your browser, assuming that is not prohibited by the server security settings.
And while .html is the normal extension to indicate a file containing HTML code, it is sometimes abbreviated to .htm for systems which have a 3-character file extension limit (or as a legacy for those that had such limits in older versions).
Christopher Sea
3,726 Pointscool, thanks.
Christopher Sea
3,726 PointsChristopher Sea
3,726 PointsAlso, is there any difference between the extensions .htm & .html?