Index of/

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J CCarol

I do not know if this is the 2nd posting or not for the message that
"Service is unavilable" appeared as I was trying to post. And Post greyed out.

Up until August 9th, my web site opened correctly. Now I get the "Index of/
Parent Directory" Screen.

At the same time, the Host Site does not display the Home Icon in front of
the Home Page file.

Up until then, the host accepted "Index.htm" as the Home Page. Now it
accepts no variation of that (or default either, for that matter).

I've tried publishing the site from 2 different computers with the same
result. I've used the FTP within Front Page 2003 and WS_FTP Pro.

How can I get http://www.bceq.com to open on the Home Page and not the
"Index of/" page?

Thanks
 
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Ronx

The answer to the question "How can I get http://www.bceq.com to open on the
Home Page and not the 'Index of/' page?" is to use the home page filename
that the server requires.

In previous posts you have said that, according to your host, the required
filename is Index.htm. Since both Index.htm and index.htm are in the root
folder of your site it appears that the home page name is not Index.htm nor
index.htm, and your host (apparently) does not know the configuration of
their own servers, or the configuration files have been changed or
corrupted.

The usual home page on an Apache server is index.html, but most are
configured to accept index.htm as well.

You have choices:

Get your host to check and correct the server configuration.

Find a new host who knows how the servers are configured.

Get your present host to read the configuration files for your server to
check what the home page should be named, as opposed to what the host
*thinks* it should be named.

Continue to look for a combination of index, home, welcome, default (upper
and lower case) with extensions of .htm, .html (also upper and lower case)
that works as a home page name.

Ron
 
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