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I have uploaded all of my files for my website. When I type in my domain name, I see a page titled "Index of /" that lists each of the files used to create my website. Can anyone tell me how to fix this?

Your first page should be called index.html
In fact, it can be called a lot of names, this is the priority that will decide the one to display: (higher first)
index.html
index.shtml
index.php
index.htm
default.html
Default.htm
default.html
Default.html
default.shtml
Default.shtml
page1.html
index.pl
index.cgi
index.php3
index.phtml
home.htm
home.html
home.shtml
index.wml
based on the DirectoryIndex by Apache.
Now as a second answer, if you uploaded the files and these contain a file listed above and it still doesn't work, then make sure you uploaded the files in the correct directory. Sometimes ftp brings you one level higher than what is called the 'webroot' check to see if there is no 'public_html' or 'www' or 'html_docs'.
In that case, make sure your files are uploaded in this folders.

It maybe the uploading folder problem.
First of all you can try these 3 methods,
Option 1 – Upload Your Website via xxxx's File Manager
Option 2 – Uploading Your Website via FTP such as FileZilla
Option 3 – Uploading Your Website via cPanel’s File Manager
Select the option and start to upload.
Open the server folder and you may can see some folders like .htaccess, public_html.. Please open the folder public_html and upload into it.
If you still see the problem, reupload the files again.
Thank you.

You need an index or a page for the web server to serve up as the page for the site.
To get started you could upload an "index.html" page and most web servers will serve this as their first page by default.

Upload this line to your .htaccess file and see what happens
DirectoryIndex index.html index.php
If that doesn't work, can you post the contents of your .htaccess file?
This should work for a site coded with php.

Best solution for this you have to set Options -Indexes in .htacess file.

I had the same problem. This was because I used an capital 'I' as first i of index.html. This did not work because 'Index.html' was not in my directory listings. The standard solution for this would be changing Index.html to index.html. (note the capital 'I' and the lowwer case 'i')

ok first of you have to upload zip file while so It will not give to error while uploading.
put your folder in public_html section extract it.
main page of your file which have to call by default by entering your site name
is index.html don't give name Index.html system has access for index.html

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How can i hide my files and folders as they can be seen as "Index of /test/admin" on my server

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this is the thing i want to hide from public, i tried everything on my server, my friend suggested me to use HotLink protection and it says it prevents other websites from directly linking to files (as specified below) on your website. Other sites will still be able to link to any file type that you don't specify below (ie. html files). i tried that but still it does not works.
i think i have to create .htacess file but i am not sure what should i type in that file so that my all website links are protected
You can also hide your files and folders from directory listing using directoryindex directive,
DirectoryIndex /file.html
/file.html is the file you want to show instead of the directory listing.
You're right you need to create a .htaccess file and copy the below code in it.
Options -Indexes
Hope this helps!

Why do people name their files index.html?

I have seen a lot of people been using that file name for their HTML files. I wonder why? I'm kind of new to HTML, I haven't learned much, but when I name my HTML files, I name them whatever I want. When I have been searching up examples of HTML, I have found they name it index.html. Why?
I have seen a lot of people been using that file name for their HTML files
You would typically use that name for one of your page, and it would usually be the home page.
When you arrive a website, for example www.website.com, you're not pointing to a file (like you would be if you typed www.website.com/about.html), you're pointing to a directory listing of all the files.
The webserver will try to serve a file, typically called index.html or index.php by default, but it could be something different, and it's configurable by editing your webserver's config files.
If the server doesn't find any file to serve (because you didn't include an index.html file or because you renamed it without editing the server's config) you will see a listing of the files, which is rarely the desired behavior, especially at the root of a website.
Generally the contents of index.html will be returned when just the directory is requested.
e.g. http://example.com/index.html is returned for a request for http://example.com
This is merely convention and is usually configurable.
Here is my take: It was likely named 'index' in the original internet because it is the 'indexing page' that directs to the sub pages, and you would go back to the index page to go to another page. This was before images and search engines. Later it got more advanced with a menu on all pages. This is how I remember it, but it's a long time ago.
https://twitter.com/PresidentUSW1/status/1442236777293496325?s=20
The default landing page of many Web servers defaults to index.html or default.htm and either way it's simply a start page. It's not necessary at all.

Have Domain Open HTML File?

I am currently making a website, and have a folder containing CSS3 and HTML5 code in it. When I click on the index.html file, it opens up a local file and I can see my design and text in it. However, I am not sure how to have my website "point" to the index.html file, so it shows the content that is in the file. (I bought the domain with GoDaddy).
Thanks for the help!
Make Sure the directory does not have any other default files like default.php,default,html,etc and also there should be only one index file. if there is any index.php it will overtake index.html. Please make your question more clear and tell use which hosting are you using.....
Check documentation of the company that provides you hosting - the server has a list of files it looks for on disk in a given order. Only thing you need to do is to rename you file to match server's "lookup table".
Relevant part of configuration of the most popular web servers:
apache: https://httpd.apache.org/docs/current/mod/mod_dir.html
nginx: http://nginx.org/en/docs/http/ngx_http_index_module.html

Not finding index pages?

Ok.. total noob question.
I always thought that when I saw a URL like www.siteName.com/designs/ .. that PHP or some CMS was at work. I know how filepaths work, etc. , but I always thought that generally simple sites were in a "flat" system
index.html
about.html
gallery.html
/css/
/js/
/images/
So today I just had one of those aha moments. And I now have my main directory with index.html, but a few folders (students/ , shows/, etc) In each of these I have an index.html page. This should essentially be the same as having students.html, shows.html in my main directory, correct? Except it would give me the kind of URL format I would like to have, yes? (eg mysite.com/students)
Problem is, my browser just shows me the directory. I see a file list with my index.html there, but the page is not loading automatically.
What stupid thing am I doing wrong? (I'm on localhost if that makes a difference). I thought that if your browser enters a directory it should load index.html (isnt that why people put blank index pages in a directory? To stop the contents from being listed?)
You have to configure your web server to do this. If you're running apache, it's done with a line in .htaccess like this:
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html home.html something-else.php
Those filenames are listed in order of priority, so if you have both index.php and home.html in the same folder, index.php is loaded. Usually this is set up by default, but servers can be configured a lot of ways.
If you use XAMPP on localhost, it will display the list of files instead of the index files. You can change it though, look at :
http://www.astahost.com/info/tiflds-setting-default-xampp-web-server.html
If you use something else then XAMPP there probably will be an settings somewhere to set the default file to load as well. Just Google it :)

You don't have permission to access /betaSite/ on this server

I'm having a big problem. I just revamped this apt. companies website and created the new website in a folder contained in the current website. I just finished and have put all of the old site files into and oldSite folder and brought all the new files out of the betaSite folder and into the public folder. I've tried changing the file persmissions but idk if they are sticking. Please help! I really have no clue how to fix this. Thanks!
asirentals.com
asirentals.com/index.shtml
From here: http://www.thesitewizard.com/apache/install-apache-2-windows.shtml
If you want "index.shtml" to be your default start page for your directories, ie, if you want Apache to load "index.shtml" when you type "localhost" or "localhost/directory/", you will need to search for a line in your "httpd.conf" that begins with "DirectoryIndex" and add index.shtml to the list of files there. For example, modify it as follows:
DirectoryIndex index.shtml index.html