DancingBunnyUSA Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 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 Quote
Susie Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 (edited) 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 Quote
DancingBunnyUSA Posted January 8, 2009 Author Report Posted January 8, 2009 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. Quote
falkencreative Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 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. Quote
Susie Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 Oh yep, Ben is right. This makes me think of Godaddy. Is it hosted by them? Quote
DancingBunnyUSA Posted January 8, 2009 Author Report Posted January 8, 2009 it's hosted by earthlink. not godaddy Quote
Andrea Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 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. Quote
Susie Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 Maybe you should contact the host if you don't see an option in the control panel to set the index page. Strange! Quote
Andrea Posted January 8, 2009 Report Posted January 8, 2009 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'. Quote
DancingBunnyUSA Posted January 8, 2009 Author Report Posted January 8, 2009 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. Quote
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