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beerbob1
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« on: August 10, 2002, 06:50:00 PM »
Have searched for an answer to this, but didn't see one.
Do I have to have the .html extension after every link? Use to be I didn't need this when linking between pages, for ex:
<A HREF="http://www.beerbob.net/beerpage/beerpage.html">

works, but this doesn't:
<A HREF="http://www.beerbob.net/beerpage/beerpage">

In the past with other hosts, One didn't need to include the html extension to get a page to load.
I thought it should assume to look for a web page first before thinking it may be a file.
And I'd hate to have to put an index in each folder.....so any other way around this.
I mean when I'm writing some code, just linking to say "mypage"  woudl work if there was a mypage in that directory, but now, it appears that I need "mypage.html" to make it work.

Thanks for any help and enlightenment!
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« Reply #1 on: August 10, 2002, 08:41:00 PM »
what host were you using???????

u have to specify the file's extenstion.  it's not really that much of a problem to type .html, is it?

bill

 
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Originally posted by beerbob:
Have searched for an answer to this, but didn't see one.
Do I have to have the .html extension after every link? Use to be I didn't need this when linking between pages, for ex:
<A HREF="http://www.beerbob.net/beerpage/beerpage.html">

works, but this doesn't:
<A HREF="http://www.beerbob.net/beerpage/beerpage">

In the past with other hosts, One didn't need to include the html extension to get a page to load.
I thought it should assume to look for a web page first before thinking it may be a file.
And I'd hate to have to put an index in each folder.....so any other way around this.
I mean when I'm writing some code, just linking to say "mypage"  woudl work if there was a mypage in that directory, but now, it appears that I need "mypage.html" to make it work.

Thanks for any help and enlightenment!
Cheers
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beerbob1
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« Reply #2 on: August 10, 2002, 10:04:00 PM »
I was with GGGGAAAAAAAGGGGG! ( GEOCITIES )
Try not to laugh too hard.

At any rate, I never had to list the ext.
So for some peeps who have bookmarked certain pages, trying to use those links now with this host, gets them a page not found.... because in there bookmark link, it doesn't have the .html after the page name.!!! A bummer I know, but was wondering what is was about GEOcities that resolved the names to html....apparently..

Anyway, it's no big deal. I will just create some custom error pages to inform peeps to redo their bookmarks and away we go...

Thanks.
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« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2002, 07:05:00 AM »
I've yet to see anywhere where you don't have to use an extension, GEO notwithstanding.  I think maybe you were, in that case, linking to a folder in your website (a directory) that had a file in it called index.html and that's what was coming up.
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