web server not seeing index.html

[f1sh3r]

i was redoing a website for my sister and the server is very basic html only, no server side scripting...

i made about 13 pages and uploaded them. the old files were all *.htm so i just threw the new *.html in there with them. I renamed index.htm to indexOLD.htm so that index.html would take over.

the website doesnt show my index.html, instead i get

"Directory Listing Denied
This Virtual Directory does not allow contents to be listed."

can i do something with an .htaccess file or something?

 

[hi tek]

try putting

DirectoryIndex index.html

in the .htaccess file

 

[aceO07]

If the old 'index.htm' worked, why not just rename the new 'index.html' to be 'index.htm'. There's probably just a setting that points specifically to 'index.htm'.

 

[drebo]

What HTTP server are you using? Sounds like you're probably using IIS, as it's the only one I know of that doesn't include index.html in the default home pages by default.

The setting is under the Home Directory tab for the site properties, I believe. If not there, it's on one of the tabs...though I'm pretty sure it's Home Directory.

 

[ahurtt]

It's a server configuration setting like what the previous poster said. If you have administrator access to the server configuration you can add whatever file names you'd like to the list of pages that can serve as "default" welcome pages. The server will search for files of the names you specify in the order they are listed. If you do not have administrative privileges to the web server configuration in question, then you will just have to stick with calling your welcome page whatever they have it set to, which means renaming it to the old "index.htm" file name.