Thread: renaming home page to index

domain name: hottie 4ever.com

This is an adult site!

If offended I understand the lack of help from certain individuals.


The problem I am having is: site was made with Blue Voda, np there.

The issue lies with the index page, I have looked and read a few posts but I am still confused with the complete saving as "index".

I have saved it as .hottie4ever.com/index.html in blue voda.

The only information that comes up when you type in the url is a complete index of the files on the server?

Can someone please advise as to the proper procedure.

Thank you,

Michael

It sounds as though you have your account straightened out ....

so with that in mind

your main page, your first page, the index page

Must be saved as

index

only that word

it gets published as that

and to find it on the internet

you simply type in your domain name

only the word index - nothing else

how would i type it exactly? hottie4ever.comindex?

I saved the page in BV as index

I had the darn thing up this morning, then did some changes to page names and now I get the index info when I put in the url

a few different things to type going on here


to find your website after you have published your index page you would type in your address bar in your internet explorer, or whatever you use, firefox, what have you .... you would type

http://www.hottie4ever.com

Just like that ....

to save your page that you made you save it as index and publish it as index ..... this page will then be viewed on the above link


you are seeing all those files as you called your page index.html .....

you were not supposed to do that

only index

republish your page and you will see the change

so the url in bv for that page: should be saved as http://www.hottie4ever.com/index

after you have accomplished that

I would suggest

You go into your control panel and delete the previous page that you published .... that page that was simply not called index .... otherwise your files and cgi bin will remain on the internet I believe .....

yes, each time I redid it or renamed it I wnet into the file manager and deleted it before i placed the new one into it.

Originally Posted by subsonic222

so the url in bv for that page: should be saved as http://www.hottie4ever.com/index

I don't know what you mean by saving it in blue voda like that

Okay here it is

What you create for a webpage in your blue voda web builder is your files, you save them as one simple name

your main page save as index ..... to retrieve it on the internet you only type in your url which is http://www.hottie4ever.com

nothing else .....

That is the main page index is what is saved on your computer only!!! You publish it as index .... you view it as the url which is http://www.hottie4ever.com

I have saved the main page as index, that is what is confusing me, and each time I delete the index file in the file manager prior to putting up the new page after I have made changes? I do understand to use the the hottie4ever.com url to get to the site.

are you publishing in your blue voda web builder?

Only one page can be named index

save as index
publish as index right inside your blue voda web builder
and your page should be there ....

yes, using BV, I have only one page, the main page as index?

Think I found the problem, the page url was missing the "E" in hottie,da.

your site has many problems. try putting the text on your billing page in a one cell table(1 row, 1 column) with a contrasting background so people can read it...at least. plus this will wrap the text neatly within the cell.

Nope wasn't it,

Darlin, gonna hit it been at this to long!

Tahnk you for your help, will get it tommorow when I have a fresh mind.

Sweet dreams,

Michael

the other pages seem to work fine, just the main page it the problem, the others may need to be tweaked

you have no index page in your directory. You should NEVER be needing to go in and delete the page before you republish it - it will republish right over the page and change with your changes.

Publish the index page again - and make sure you are calling it index - nothing else - no capital letters - then when you make changes to pages, just make the changes within bv on them and republish them - don't change their names or do anything else to them.