I have successfully converted and uploaded my webpage from freeway to XWay…although more work is needed (I’m still learning).
But I have a problem opening the homepage. Seeworthybirds.comopens my Brazil page instead of my home page. However, checking on home in Brazil does open the homepage.
Can anyone tell me how the URL seeworthybirds.com can be set to open the correct homepage and not the SeeworthyBirds…Brazil page?
Most grateful for any help.
If you move to the brazil page in your Xway document, look at the right column of the interface, up near the top. There’s a field labeled ‘File name’. I will bet you a small amount of money that it will read ‘index.html’.
If you rename that to ‘brazil.html’ or whatever else you like, and then go to your home page and change whatever that page’s filename is currently to ‘index.html’, then publish and upload, your problem will be over.
Walter
Hi Walter,
Thanks for the prompt reply but since I’m not a betting person you lost no money.
The Brazil page file name is: brazil-birds.html (not index, html). I changed my SeeworthyBirds home page to index.html which was automatically changed to index2.html (?).
But SeeworthyBirds.com still opens to Brazil…sigh.
tony castro
It doesn’t for me.
seeworthybirds.com and seeworthybirds.com/index.html open to the same page, which seems to be the home page.
I couldn’t get to the Brazil page by following the link on the South America page (it went back to the same page), but I can get there by appending the brazil-birds.html file name to seeworthybirds.com/
It’s possible that you have caching issues of some kind. You could try clearing your browser caches, or using a different browser. Alternatively, it’s possible that your internet provider is caching old versions of these pages.
That will only happen if you already have a page called index.html in the same folder. Curiously index.html and index2.html seem to display slightly different versions of the home page. Do you have two versions of this page in your Xway document?
I think I now have the home page sorted out.
I didn’t realize that the home page should be file named index.html, and then when I forgot to give Brazil a name it was assigned index.html and thus became my home page.
Sorry, maybe it’s just me, but the Xway user guide did not seem very clear on home page names.
Anyway, thanks for your continuing help and thanks also to Walter,
tony castro
This is what the Xway User Guide says:
“Within any folder (apart from master-page folders) there should be a page that has a file name which indicates that it is an index page (normally index.html). This is the page that browsers will display when a URL does not contain a file name. For example, https://www.apple.com is equivalent to https://www.apple.com/index.html. If a folder does not already contain an index page, Xway assigns index.html as the file name of the next page that is added to that folder.”
Life’s a learning experience! 
If someone requests a specific page (something.com/folder/filename.html) that’s what the web server returns to them. If they don’t specify a specific file, the web server will return the file that has the standard ‘default’ file name, which is “index.html” (or .htm, or .php). It’s one of those ‘once you know, you know’ things.
It is mentioned in the Xway docs, but to be fair so are a lot of other things so it can require focused time to find them – especially before you know you need to know! That’s kinda why this forum exists. 
