DW8 Tutorial Question?

[Kridian]

I'm naming my home page as instructed in the video as 'index.html', however when I upload that to my domain and then reload the site to see the initial test page, it says it can't see the directory.

Ok, so I use my ftp program to connect to the site and look into the folder that contains the index.html, images folder & other basic ones.

If I drag that index file out of that folder on the root ftp site and load the page it will only see the text but not any supporting graphics or links... obviously, so what step am I missing? Do I copy the index file back into that folder and link the two somehow? That seems kinda silly.

Any info would be greatly appreciated. I'm missing a piece of the puzzle here.

:confused:

[jmesias]

Im just curious, what's the name of the directory? if your hosting server is a *Nix it is case sensitive, try to avoid spaces too and any unusual characters. it should work fine. Let us know anyways if that doesn't fix it.

Luck!!

[Kridian]

No the directory name is like: ab_gallery and it's from myHostSite.com

I'm getting a little insight from the domain hosting service on using 'redirecting' so the main site will look in a sub-folder for the index.html page.

How do most people put their index page up on an ftp? Do they have it on the root and everything works without problems?

[danlefeb]

Yeah, always put your index.html (or whatever you want your homepage to be) in the root directory. From there you can either have links to your subfolders, or you can set a redirect script if you want. The root directory is where the server is going to look first unless you set it up differently on the server side.