My website is showing a list of files instead of my homepage, How do I fix that?

Answer 1

Make sure that your home page is named index.html or index.htm.

Answer 2

Well, as long as you are not using Windows to host the website, it should be very easy.

Just create a .htaccess file and put in it the DirectoryIndex header and list your main page file under that. And also put in an entry to deny the file list viewing of your website.

Otherwise, you will have to experiment with the file names until you find the one that your system is set to to use. Here are all the common ones:

index.htm
index.html
index.php
index.asp
index.cgi
index.jsp
default.htm
default.html
default.php
default.asp
default.cgi
default.jsp

Answer 3

The first page of your website isn't and index.html file so without that you are stuck with the listing unless someone is linking directly to a specific front page.

If you created your website and named your main page something other than index.htm or index.html then you need to change that.

Answer 4

You are accessing the root of your web directory. If you are running IIS than you can fix this by going to the administration and setting the server to point to index.htm or home.htm directly. Or if you are running apache in a linux environment. You can fix this problem by going to conf file under the etc folder and local the setting for home page redirect / path and set it to index.htm anf home.htm. Even simpler just type in the page you want to go to e.g. http://www.mysite.com/mypage.htm Good luck!!