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[ddepperman]

HI There Again!
I am trying to make my domain name, when typed into the address box of my browser, point to my web page.
Presently it points to index.fquest.
My home page is named index.html.
Now I know that the home page should be named index.html.[nbsp][nbsp]then the url points to it as the home page.[nbsp][nbsp]That much is clear.
It is named index.html. Please note this fact.
Yet the url (A sample domain is given.[nbsp][nbsp]It isn't the real name of the domain, but is instead being used only as an example) http://www.mydomain.com, points to fquest.html, not to index.html.
I am considering changing the name of my home page to fquest.html and deleting the present fquest.html.[nbsp][nbsp]I hesitate to do this.
Does anyone have any suggestions.
N.B. Please don't suggest that I name my home page index.html.
Sincerely yours,
Daniel

[Paul]

Daniel..

All you will need to do now is upload the index.html file into the very same directory the index.fquest file resides in. (and delete the index.fquest file if you wish)

Hope that helps..
Paul[nbsp][nbsp]

[Bob]

Hi Daniel,

In visiting your domain (which I believe this is related to?)[nbsp][nbsp]I viewed a normal html file that had been created by you (according to the source code).[nbsp][nbsp]
From the site:
A FULL-SERVICE DIVE SHOP

CHAWENG BEACH

KOH SAMUI THAILAND

It's possible you are dealing with a cache issue here, and you may need to force your browser to clean out it's cache?

Hope this helps :)
Have a Good One
Bob

[Paul]

I'm seeing what Bob is seeing. (Did you try shift - reload/refresh)? .. :)

Paul

[ddepperman]

Thanks, Paul.[nbsp][nbsp]Before I posted my message I had copied all of my files to each level of my folders, including the one where index.fquest resides.[nbsp][nbsp]Didn't work.[nbsp][nbsp]I had decided to reupload my files before your email, as a last resort(having learned to reload microsoft OS's when nothing else can solve a problem).
I have also thought of renaming my file to index.fquest and saving the future quest index elsewhere in case the name change didn't work.
Can you tell me where in the host's software the pointing process (of url to file) resides?
Daniel

[ddepperman]

Bob:[nbsp][nbsp]How do you have access to my folders?[nbsp][nbsp]Are you Support staff? I have to assume that you are Else, I am concerned about the invasion of my folders.
As for my browser's cache, Which region are you referring to?[nbsp][nbsp]I don't know if I can access the cache you refer to.[nbsp][nbsp]I use IE5. I delete temp files a lot. My history folder[nbsp][nbsp]should be self-cleaning q 5 days. But if my html file has been successfully uploaded, and since the CNC does what I tell it to do successfully, how would cleaning out my browser cache affect the pointing of the url to my file named index.html?
PLease remember that I am only a beginner in this process and have lots to learn.
daniel

[ddepperman]

Paul:[nbsp][nbsp]Sorry to be so obtuse, but what are you guys seeing?[nbsp][nbsp]I know that when I type into the address space of my browser www.diveindeep.com (http://www.diveindeep.com), I get an error message, (which is actually a page in my directories that FQ has supplied.) ON the other hand when I type in www.diveindeep.com/index.html (http://www.diveindeep.com/index.html) I get my html page, but it is password protected.[nbsp][nbsp]I of course made the mistake of password protecting my folders after seeing the help page about how to password protect my folders.[nbsp][nbsp]The page did not state that doing so would make the files inaccessable.[nbsp][nbsp]I merely thought that that would keep people out of my folders.[nbsp][nbsp]
I wish the page about password protection had included that information.[nbsp][nbsp]I think that if other users of the site[nbsp][nbsp]are as knowledgable as Futurequest has indicated to me they are, then they would not need the help page about password protection beccause they would already know how to do it and that it would aply to the site not the folders.[nbsp][nbsp]Now I have learned that it isn't so.[nbsp][nbsp]It is always good to learn!

I have just gone to bob's email and I take it to mean that he typed in my domain's url and was taken to the site, and it wasn't password protected.[nbsp][nbsp]how cool that that happened.[nbsp][nbsp]Last night, hours after removing the htaccess file from my folders the site was still password protected when I visited it.[nbsp][nbsp]Other people told me they saw the same thing!
Gee. I wonder why things seem to be so contradictory.
D

[ddepperman]

Oh my gosh my golly![nbsp][nbsp]I just clicked on www.diveindeep.com (http://www.diveindeep.com) and got the absolutely correct page I want there.
Will wonders never cease.
Thanks for your help, one and all.
Daniel