I am using Yeoman to create a static website, which created a file structure like:
-app
index.html
-css
style.css
-js
script.js
Gruntfile.js
README.md
bower.json
package.json
I used filezilla to send this to my server (using bluehost) but nothing seems to be displaying? when I try to hit the website. (ex. whatever.com)
Is it because my 'index.html' lives inside the app directory? Should I only host my app diretory so 'index.html' is in the root directory?
I think you are on the right track with location of index.html but not quite. Your file structure should look like:
[document root]
index.html
- css (a directory of the root)
style.css
- js (also a directory of the root same as css)
script.js
Gruntfile.js
README.md
bower.json
package.json
Note in the above structure, there is no -app folder. You can test the above by using your web browser and pointing to http://yoursite.domain/app and see if that displays.
If that does not solve the issue, then you may be uploading to somewhere outside of the document root for your web server in which case you should find out where that is. Best place to ask about that would be on either https://serverfault.com/ or on https://superuser.com/. Good luck.
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Im trying to host a github live server for a project that right now has a "index.html" main folder with 4 files inside that main folder named "forgot-pass.html" "home.html" "sign-in.html" "sign-up.html"
I know to host on github your html needs to be a index.html but my question is can you have a folder named index.html with html files inside that folder and it still work? or how can i host on github if i have multiple html files named various things.
Yes you can have more html files in the same folder or subfolders, but it's mandatory to have the "index.html" file. Also I think you can make that folder but will not work (I don't know if it works or not, but give it a shot).
Its required to have a "index.html" file located in the root directory. As far as having a main FOLDER named index.html with files inside of that as-well, did not work for me. but i did not try to have a index.html file in the root directory on its own ALONG with a separate folder containing the rest of the html files. So i don't know if that works or not. i just put all the html files in the root directory and made sure to have one named "index.html"
I just started setting up Apache web server to try and test a website I am building. After installing LAMP (I'm on Ubuntu 16.04, if that's important), I copied a folder of HTML and CSS code that I had to test. Here is the folder's contents:
Main folder: testsite
Subfolders: articles, images, CSS, HTML, scripts
Contents:
articles -> .docx files
images -> .png files
CSS -> .css files
HTML -> .html files
scripts -> .py files, but one .html file too
When I went to test the Apache web server, it gave a 404 not found. I'm absolutely clueless as to what could be the answer. I tried renaming the maincode.html file that I had to index.html and putting it in the testsite folder, but it didn't change anything. Is there anything I need to do to fix this?
Here's a screenshot of the 404 Not Found page, with the Developer Console open (in Chrome)
I'm not sure what other information I need to provide, but I'll gladly give any info you need.
Make sure your testsite's conf file has the DocumentRoot property set to the path to your testsite folder. The conf file is probably /etc/apache2/sites-enabled/000-default.conf.
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'm currently working in Go. I created a web server on my local machine. I followed the instruction on this page Rendering CSS in a Go Web Application
but I'm still getting the 404 error that the program can't seem to find where my css file is. My directory is as follows.
In src folder contains css/somefilename.css, src also contains server/server.go.
The code inside my server.go file is as follows.
http.Handle("/css/", http.StripPrefix("/css/", http.FileServer(http.Dir("css"))))
When I go to localhost:8080/css/ I get 404 page not found. I'm also using templates to render the html code. The templates are in the folder
src/templates/layout.html
the html code is as follows:
<link rel="stylesheet" type="text/css" href="../css/css490.css" />
Since you don't specify full path for the css folder just a relative one, whether your css files are found depends on the folder you run your application from (the working directory, this is what relative paths are resolved to).
For example if you start your application from your src with go run server/server.go it will work. If you start it from your src/server folder with go run server.go, it will not work. Also if you create a native executable from your app which is put into the bin folder and you start that from the bin folder, this also won't work because the css folder is not in the bin folder.
Either start it with go run server/server.go from the src folder, or copy the css folder to your bin folder and start the executable from the bin folder and it should work (but in this case you also have to copy other static files like html templates).
I am just getting started on developing a website. All I have at the moment is a HTML page supported by a couple of CSS stylesheets.
Can I create a WAR file from the HTML and CSS pages? How do I deploy them on to a Tomcat server?
Thanks.
There is no real need to create a war to run it from Tomcat. You can follow these steps
Create a folder in webapps folder e.g. MyApp
Put your html and css in that folder and name the html file, which you want to be the starting page for your application, index.html
Start tomcat and point your browser to url "http://localhost:8080/MyApp". Your index.html page will pop up in the browser
Here's my setup: I am on Ubuntu 9.10.
Now, Here's what I did.
Create a folder named "tomcat6-myapp" in /usr/share.
Create a folder "myapp" under /usr/share/tomcat6-myapp.
Copy the HTML file (that I need to deploy) to /usr/share/tomcat6-myapp/myapp. It must be named index.html.
Go to /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost.
Create an xml file "myapp.xml" (i guess it must have the same name as the name of the folder in step 2) inside /etc/tomcat6/Catalina/localhost with the following contents.
< Context path="/myapp" docBase="/usr/share/tomcat6-myapp/myapp" />
This xml is called the 'Deployment Descriptor' which Tomcat reads and automatically deploys your app named "myapp".
Now go to http://localhost:8080/myapp in your browser - the index.html gets picked up by tomcat and is shown.
I hope this helps!
Here's my step in Ubuntu 16.04 and Tomcat 8.
Copy folder /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT to your folder.
cp -r /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/ROOT /var/lib/tomcat8/webapps/{yourfolder}
Add your html, css, js, to your folder.
Open "http://localhost:8080/{yourfolder}" in browser
Notes:
If you using chrome web browser and did wrong folder before, then clean web browser's cache(or change another name) otherwise (sometimes) it always 404.
The folder META-INF with context.xml is needed.
If you want to create a .war file you can deploy to a Tomcat instance using the Manager app, create a folder, put all your files in that folder (including an index.html file) move your terminal window into that folder, and execute the following command:
zip -r <AppName>.war *
I've tested it with Tomcat 8 on the Mac, but it should work anywhere
(Answers are pretty old, so here's what worked for me on Ubuntu 20.04 Tomcat9)
As root
cd /var/lib/tomcat9/webapps
mkdir -p myapp
cd myapp
cat >>index.html
<html><body>MY SIMPLE PAGE </body></html>
control-D # Press CONTROL+D to exit 'cat', create the file 'index.html'
systemctl restart tomcat9
In browser, use URL: http://127.0.0.1/myapp
(Of course, you can make page fancier, add CSS, etc., etc.)
I struggled a bit with older version of Apache Tomcat (7.0.68) running on Windows Server 2012, but this worked for me after a little bit of experimenting:
Create app folder with your static files (HTML, JS, CSS, assets, etc.).
Inside the folder create META-INF folder and add empty MANIFEST.MF.
Optionally zip the app folder and change the extension to .war.
Upload your app to Tomcat's webapps folder, either as a .war or just folder with your files.
Turned out, that META-INF with empty MANIFEST.MF file is enough for Tomcat to serve the app. No need to add WEB-INF or anything else (at least for my version of Tomcat).
Folder structure:
MyApp (folder)
|--index.html
|--app.js
|--app.css
|--assets (folder)
|--logo.png
|--...
|--META-INF (folder)
|--MANIFEST.MF (empty file)