I recently bought a website to play with, but I immediately had a problem.
My website doesn't load the index.html when I just connect to mydomain.com. If I write it manually (mydomain.com/index.html) everything works perfectly. I tried to change the .htaccess file to direct all traffic to my index.html page with the following line, but the problem remains:
DirectoryIndex index.html
Any ideas to solve the problem?
Please provide the web host and/or server type (windows, linux, etc) to help further answer your question.
As a start some web servers (windows/iis) expect different file names for the default html file. Godady.com has a list of different file names for Linux and Windows at this url: https://www.godaddy.com/help/what-file-displays-when-someone-browses-to-my-domain-name-60
Good luck!
This DirectoryIndex index.html has to be set in httpd.conf file. In your httpd.conf, you might have disabled .htaccess with AllowOverride none. That is why your .htaccess is not working
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I'm using create-react-app which is serving its files from the /build folder. Typically Github Pages looks at index.html at the root level, but I'd like to direct it to look at /build for deployment.
I've tried to add "homepage": "/build" inside my package.json configuration, and Github Settings says it's deployed via <username>.github.io. However, the site just shows my README.md file.
Any help is appreciated :)
The problem here is that this is a Web Browser issue, and not a Host issue. When you visit a webpage your browser always looks for the index.html file at the URL so localhost:8080 becomes localhost:8080/index.html.
This means that there are a couple ways to fix this. You could create an index.html file in your root directory and then have that serve up the scripts in the build folder like <script src="build/main.js"></script>
You could also go through the pain and suffering of manually adding /build to the end of the URL. But you don't want users to have to do that, so you could write a script to redirect you there.
Good luck!
I have been struggling with this all morning and I have not had much luck.
I am trying to get the following stackoverflow post to work: How to remove .html from URL
Here is my file directory with the htaccess file:
Here is my code that works fine using .html
So I went into sublime text and posted the same code into a .htaccess file as shown here (also in my directory first pic):
I then changed my links and removed .html
But I get an error
If anyone could please tell me what I'm doing wrong I would be grateful! Been bashing my head on this all morning
.htaccess is a file used to control access for Apache web servers. It won't affect anything unless you're running and accessing an Apache server. From your screenshots I can see that you're directly opening a file from your hard drive.
Your browser is saying File not found because you're trying to access a non-existent file. The address bar in your browser should say this:
file:///Users/mikegeng/Documents/GitHub/MichaelGeng.github.io/index.html
.htaccess is used by Apache Webserver. You must install and configure an Apache Webserver and access your site through http://localhost for example.
Currently your .htaccess is completely ignored until your site is served by Apache.
I have a situation to which I cannot seem to have a fix for !
The thing is I'm hosting a website on localhost (LAMP).
The website is created using Joomla Framework. The home page loads successfully when I navigate to the website on the localhost.
As soon as I click on any navigation links, a 404 error is displayed.
eg. homepage URL -
http://localhost/PortalSources/
Nav link -
http://localhost/PortalSources/tools/safety-assessment-tool.html
As soon as I manually add 'index.php' to the nav link
http://localhost/PortalSources/index.php/tools/safety-assessment-tool.html
the link starts to work and page loads successfully.
What could possibly cause this behavior ? How do I fix it so that I don't have to manually type in for every page on the website ?
You can probably find your answer here: https://docs.joomla.org/Enabling_Search_Engine_Friendly_(SEF)_URLs
Verify .htaccess is Enabled
Check that your Apache config file allows .htaccess overrides. You must make sure overrides are enabled or the .htaccess file in your Joomla! root directory will be ignored or cause an error. In the section of your virtual host configuration file or in the main (httpd.conf) configuration file you must have something similar to the example below enabling overrides:
<Directory "/home/user/public_html">
AllowOverride All
</Directory>
<Directory "/path/to/htdocs">
AllowOverride All Options=[an option],[an option],...
</Directory>
There are other ways to test if .htaccess is enabled if you do not have access to your site's configuration files. Please refer to the .htaccess tutorial found on The Apache Software Foundation website for additional information.
Step by Step
These are step-by-step instructions. Please follow them in the order they are presented here. If a step fails, do not continue until you have solved the problem.
Rename the file "htaccess.txt" in your Joomla!'s base folder to ".htaccess".
This step may not be necessary. Open .htaccess in a text editor. Uncomment RewriteBase / (remove the first character, #). If Joomla is installed in its own folder, the enter the Joomla folder name after the backslash. e.g. RewriteBase /yourjoomlafolder.
Log on to your Back-end and open the Global Configuration.
Enable the Use Apache mod_rewrite/URL rewriting option and Save. This option uses the Apache mod_rewrite function to eliminate the "index.php" portion of the URL.
Check if your site works correctly. Your URLs should now look like:
http://www.example.com/the-news/1-latest-news/1-welcome-to-joomla
If this option causes errors, please see How to check if mod rewrite is enabled on your server.
If it is not enabled and you have access to the file apache/conf/httpd.conf, open that file and check if the line LoadModule rewrite_module modules/mod_rewrite.so is uncommented. If necessary, uncomment the line and restart the Apache web server.
If mod_rewrite cannot be enabled, leave this option off. It does not matter if you leave the .htaccess file renamed.
If you think this necessary, enable Add suffix to URLs and Save. This option adds .html to the end of URLs. There are different opinions on whether this is necessary or even useful. Search engines do not seem to care if your URLs end in .html or not.
Open the Plugin Manager and enable the System - SEF plugin. This plugin adds SEF support to links in your Joomla articles. It operates directly on the HTML and does not require a special tag.
The site I'm working on is hosted on GoDaddy's shared servers. I need to increase the limit on the Apache directive LimitRequestBody. I've tried adding the following to .htaccess:
LimitRequestBody 20250000
But that doesn't have any effect. I've called GoDaddy support several times, and nobody there seems to know how to help.
Any ideas?
Make sure your .htaccess file is affecting the correct directory - the one where the script you want to limit lives. To affect only that directory, put your .htaccess file in the root directory(above your script) and wrap your directive with
<Directory "/var/www/path/to/script">
LimitRequestBody 20250000
</Directory>
After you change the .htaccess file, you need to run
# service httpd reload
I hope this helps.
I bought a domain name and am trying to figure out how to configure it responsibly. I haven't set up an index.html file yet and I've noticed that if I hit my domain, I see my file directory tree and I can dive down to all the files within my browser. Is there a way that I can disable this? I am hosting it on Apache
If you are using IIS.
Right-click on your website, and choose Properties.
Select Home Directory tab.
Uncheck the Directory browsing.
You can try a few things:
create an empty file named index.html and upload it into the public_folder
create an .htaccess file with the following contents: Options -Indexes
If you have some kind of cpanel for your site, look for options to disable directory browsing.
Creating the index.html file is probably the easiest and most consistent way to go.
FYI, my .htaccess info came from techiecorner.com