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File Name Listing Appears


 
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If you find that a file name listing appears after uploading your website contents, this may indicate that files were not uploaded with the correct filenames. The main website page, which will be shown to visitors when they type in yoursitedomain.com, should always be named index.html—if you pick out another name, the web server may not recognize that the file is to be the main page for the website. When no main file is found for your site, the web server defaults to simply listing out the files that it finds in your website directory, which is why you see the listing of files.

If your website publishing software will not let you use index.html as the filename, it is acceptable to use index.htm - however, you will need to verify that you do not have another file named index.html already uploaded or this page will override your index.htm file.