how do make this a index pg?

[DancingBunnyUSA]

I was trying to make this "click to enter" the index page.

http://www.jg2country.com/enter.html

 

But for some reason it won't change. I had changed the name to index but it still shows the original index page which i was changing to b the home page. (I really hope this makes sense). Right now, I put it back to saying enter until I can get this thing figured out.

 

Can anyone help, please?

DancingBunny

[Susie]

To make anything be the index page, it must be named index.htm, index.html, or index.php . What is the name of the page that shows as the index now?

 

Edit to add: Give your "enter" page the name index.html and give the page that is now currently index.html a new, different name.

Edited January 8, 2009 by Susie

[DancingBunnyUSA]

I tried that and it didn't work. her index is index.shtml

 

but when i tried to change index.shtml to home.html, and enter to index.shtml, it still went to the old index page. It won't show the enter page.

[falkencreative]

You may need to access the hosting control panel -- depending on the setup your hosting uses, you may have an option to select while file or type of file the server looks for first as the home page.

[Susie]

Oh yep, Ben is right. This makes me think of Godaddy. Is it hosted by them?

[DancingBunnyUSA]

it's hosted by earthlink. not godaddy

[Andrea]

I've worked on a site hosted by earthlink before, it took just an index file as the main one.

 

Make sure you only have ONE page uploaded named index.whatever.

[Susie]

Maybe you should contact the host if you don't see an option in the control panel to set the index page. Strange!

[Andrea]

It sounds more like the new upload hasn't happened yet - because when I enter enter.html I still see what should be index.shtml - and under index.shtml, the original index page still comes up.

 

Also, if you create a 'splash' page, you may want to change all the links to "Home" to go to your (once it works) former index page, not to index.shtml so people don't have to 're-enter' every time they go 'home'.

[DancingBunnyUSA]

i was already planning on changing the links to home to go to home so people wont hae to re-enter.

 

thanks for the replies. I really appreciate it! i'm going to try tackling the thing again tomorrow.