website issue

[pagey3]

hi
I bought a domain and webspace on UK2NET I have connected via FTP in dreamweaver and uploaded files, but when you type in just the domain it still goes to the uk2net default page - how do i point this to my index file? there's something about web diversion in the web space management area but i don't really understand it!
Help!
Thank you

[rojash]

It may be that the site is being redirected, but have you actually called you first page index.html? Webservers expect to find a page called Index or Home, which is then displayed if no specific page has been specified in the browser.

[pagey3]

yep its called index.html, and i overwrote the index html that was there when i got the space, but if you just type in the domain its still just calling up the default uk2net page.

[vehelpfulguy]

A web site has a default home "page".

This is the page that loads if no default page name is given.

This is often index.html.

So if someone puts just www.google.com then index.html loads.

BUT IT MAY NOT BE THAT PAGE.

You need to check with the people who host your site as to what your default page is.

You can then either change your domain to load the default home page you have chosen for your site.

OR

Rename your "home" page to be the one the web site expects.

[vehelpfulguy]

Note that the extension is important.

INDEX.HTM is NOT the same as INDEX.HTML

You need to check if your site is trying to load a 3 letter HTM extension or a 4 letter HTML extension.

[pagey3]

the thing is there was an index.html on the webspace when i received it, which the domain was calling up, so i overwrote that with my new index.html, but it was still calling up the old one.

but in the settings there's some sort of web diversion setting that i don't understand and I think it may be this that's doing it as if i actually type in 'index.html' as an extension to domain it calls up my page, but if just the domain then it redirects

[rojash]

Well if you can access it by typing in the page name, I can't imagine that there is any kind of redirection in place. You are aware that if the server is unix/linux based then it will be case sensitive? So it would be possible to have a file called Index.html and another called index.html (and all variations thereof)?

[fo3nix]

In the root directory (i.e., the first directory you see when logging into your web server, probably the same one with index.htm in it), is there a file called '.htaccess'?

If so, download it to your computer and open it in notepad or similar, and see what it says. There may be some redirection rule there, if the above suggestions don't solve your problem.