Hello,

Newbie question here:

Why does the URL for my site have to include /index.htm?  Is there any fix that could make it more simple:

http://domainname.net

I know just a little about HMTL.  Some help sites suggested I use a redirect .htaccess but that is greek to me and one site said it would not work with Windows.

Any help or explanation in layman's terms would be appreciated.

Thanks!

Hi,

Thank you for the response.

 In answer to your questions, the account is about a week old. I purchased a new domain name.  Server is linux (apache). I uploaded my index page saved as index.htm to the folder /public_html using ftp.   If I use the URL http://domainname.net, I am directed to the Apache Test2 page.  If I use http://domainname.net/index.htm,  then I see my page(s) on the web.

From your answer, it seems that I should see my page using either URL.   I know of many sites where the main page can be accessed without the /index.htm extension, which is what I would like mine to do.  Just wondered if there is something I have done wrong and if so, what is the fix?

Thank you again

There is no .htaccess file inside public_html, so I will submit a ticket as you suggest.

Thank you so much for your help.

Thanks for the ticket, just got it fixed for you.