[Pro] My site doesn't automatically load the home page

Hi,
When I load my site it doesn’t load the home/index page as the landing page. Any ideas on how to fix that? Currently it’s loading the FAQ page, in the past week it’s loaded various other pages but never the Home page. My only thought was to upload while clicked on the Home/index page but that didn’t work. Hoping someone here will have an easy fix :slight_smile: Thanks! Julia

http://thewhitehorsewhispers.com


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When you are on the FAQ page look in the inspector and see what the file name is (the box under the Title one) - it should be something like faq.html - I think that you will find that your says index.html.

Your real home page has the file name index1.html and it will not display as default unless it is index.html.

So to fix it rename the faq page to faq.html and the home page to index.html and reupload.

David


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Thank you so much, that fixed it!


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Thank you so much, that fixed it!

Just a point to note:

When you start a new site (one created from a template will have file names already) or create a new folder in FW then the first page in that site (or folder) will automatically get the file name of index.html

Every page in that site (or folder) from that point on will get a file name which is based on whatever you put in the Title section.

So if your second page in a folder had the Title ‘Contact Us’ then the file name would automatically be generated as contactus.html (NB longer Titles will create a truncated file name ie a Title of ‘The Home Page of Acme Widgets’ will create a file name like thehomepageofacm.html )

You can change the Max. Filename length in File>Document Setup in the Output section.

D


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