[Express] website homepage not on server

My website pages list online but not my index page.
For example: WELCOME shows up as a link but not DAISY.COM
I’ve redone the website and uploaded again–and still the same problem.
Any suggestions?
(I know I must be missing something very basic!)
THANK YOU.


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Look in the Page Inspector, in the FIle field (left-most tab). Unless it reads index.html in there, your index page won’t auto-load on the vast majority of all servers. (There are a few odd birds out there, like IIS, which insist on default.htm or some other unusual filename, but for almost all servers, you want to stick with index.html.)

Precisely what is happening here is a little dance done by the server, called DefaultIndex. In your server’s configuration files, there can be a whole list of different index files, and the first one that matches will “win” when a request comes in for a folder, rather than a specific file.

Walter

On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:18 PM, Dyane wrote:

My website pages list online but not my index page.
For example: WELCOME shows up as a link but not DAISY.COM
I’ve redone the website and uploaded again–and still the same problem.
Any suggestions?
(I know I must be missing something very basic!)
THANK YOU.


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Dear Walter,
Thank you for answering!
I do have index.html in the file field of my home page.
My home page is “Welcome.”
On the internet I see Welcome but not the domain name as a title.
Any other ideas?


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You can add whatever you like in the Title tag. The only time you would see the bare domain is if the page was invalid and didn’t include a tag in its code – then the browser will fill it in as a courtesy. Freeway won’t publish a page without that tag; you can’t make it. If you want to include the domain name in your title, you can add that yourself. Type it into the Title field (separate from the File field) in the Inspector.

Walter

On Mar 11, 2013, at 10:54 PM, Dyane wrote:

Dear Walter,
Thank you for answering!
I do have index.html in the file field of my home page.
My home page is “Welcome.”
On the internet I see Welcome but not the domain name as a title.
Any other ideas?


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Thank you. I will follow up on this. I had thought that my domain name would appear on the browser as is so with other sites–without having to put it into my freeway folder.


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Can you post a link to your page online - your domain name will appear in the browser address bar by default but not in the Title.

David


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