I cannot get my website to publish because the index file was missing. I
searched around on my computer and found index.html, but it does not open. When
I try to open it, a safari window comes up that says page can't be found.
How do I add a working index file to my site?

Huh? The index.html (or whatever the default filename is) file is a file that
you create. You then upload (Put) it to the root directory on the server and
that is your site's homepage. Did you create a homepage? What did you name it?

yes, i did create a homepage. it is home.html.
How do you go about creating an index file then? It seems when I used
dreamweaver a few year ago, it created it when you published your site.
My host says that my site will not be functional until there is an index page
uploaded. index not being the same as homepage

change the name of "home.html" to "index.html" and upload it. Voila!



mrsnj20 wrote:
> yes, i did create a homepage. it is home.html.
> How do you go about creating an index file then? It seems when I used
> dreamweaver a few year ago, it created it when you published your
> site.
> My host says that my site will not be functional until there is an
> index page uploaded. index not being the same as homepage