i want to upload my first website (it is a simple html file) and when i write on the browser www.examplesite.com it just don't open the site, it opens a raw directory listing where i have to click the "index.html" (which is my site) to get redirected to the real site. How can i fix this? Thanks :)
Do you control the webserver? If so you need to tell the server (ie, Apache, IIS) to use index.html as the "Directory Index". If not ask your ISP to enable it.
Webservers can be configured to server different things as the "default" webpage if browsing to a folder - normally, your local, friendly, server administrator should be able to tell you what name(s) to use - index.html is common, but you could try "default.htm" if it's hosted on a Windows server.
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I'm an high school student and I'm working on something for fun. I've linked a local file stored on my computer to my webpage. What can I do to make it possible for other devices to access the local html file? (meme1.html)
<div id="button">
<a href="C:\Users\Desktop\MEME GENERATOR\meme1.html">
<img src="https://openclipart.org/image/2400px/svg_to_png/140365/1306313012.png" alt="Click here!" height="20%" width="20%"></a>
</div>
<div id="wrapper">
<h1><span class="tight-2">Happy Birthday!</h1>
<h2>Go ahead, press the button to generate memes!<span class="tm">™</span>.</h2>
</div>
Basically, when you host the site online you have to change the linked file path to the one of the server instead of your local machine.
Edit: If youre using plain HTML my answer stands, if you use a backend platform like Django, Flask or dotNet Core then the urls are dynamicly stated in your webapp.
By default, the local file is only available to the system it resides on. For instance this link you've created:
<a href="C:\Users\Desktop\MEME GENERATOR\meme1.html">
is telling the browser to look in the C: drive of the machine it's currently installed on. Every other system in your network (and the world, for that matter) will likely not be to pull that file because MEME GENERATOR isn't a folder on their system, so they will see a 404 (file not found) error.
That said, you can load links within your network by using network addresses. This will be the machine's network IP address, typically starting with 192.168.
That said, in order to load the file, the machine that it is running on will need to have a port open for the client machine's browser to connect to. This is typically port 80, unless SSL is in use, in which case it's typically port 8080, for HTTP traffic.
In doing so, the computer that is serving up the files becomes, logically, a 'server'. And this is the core of the client (user) to server relationship that the whole of the internet and networking is built upon.
Since you're on Windows, you can use something like XAMPP or WAMP to run a server locally that will have Apache installed, which can serve files through these ports. You're going to need to read up on these technologies a lot to get a file going, and be forewarned that this will open your system to hacking and the like.
EDIT: rereading your question, you are maybe trying to get this file to load on your website? If this is the case, then you need to upload the file to your website, and then it will have a folder structure similar to a local Windows file. [YOUR.DOMAIN.COM]/[whatever folder you create on your server in the public directory]/meme1.html
Do you mean? That you want other people to access your website?
Few ways to do that.
One thing you could do is to send the whole directory to the individual to who you want to send the webpage to.
Or the other way is what you can do is host the webpage on a hosting website. There are a lot of hosting websites that would host your websites for free.
That way anyone with a given URL can access the website.
I have a basic web site (just html, js and css files) that I want to host on IIS on my local machine for testing purposes. The site runs fine when I run it directly as a file on my computer. I added a website on IIS, using the directory these files are located in, but when I try to launch it, I get an error page that says:
An error occurred loading a configuration file: Failed to start monitoring changes to '[my site path]' because access is denied.
It then says that the source file is a web.config. I know that ASP.NET sites use a web.config, but I don't even have one, and I just want to run a basic site using html, css, and javascript.
Any ideas on what the fix might be? I made sure I have an application pool for the site.
You likely put it into your user profile -- ie c:\users\skitterm\ -- which won't let the process running IIS read the folder. You are better off using IIS' built in directory structure in c:\inetpub and adding a folder for your site.
As you can tell this is a server misconfiguration. It would help to know the version of your IIS.
You can follow the steps on Microsoft's official knowledgebase to resolve the issue:
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/316721
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/317955 (for IIS v6.0, try Method 3)
I worked in IIS about a year ago and such errors are caused by misconfigured Security settings in IIS.
Sounds like you need to set up the proper access rights for the folder to the account specified by the application pool identity.
First make sure that your folder is not anywhere under your \users\, \program files\, or any other place that already has restricted access. Put it under a folder on the root (\inetpub is a good place).
Then, add the appropriate permissions (usually read only) for the folder to allow the user account specified by the app pool identity to access it. If the app pool identity is set to ApplicationPoolIdentity, adding the IIS_IUSRS local group should do it. Otherwise, use the account that is specified.
This should fix the problem.
This is probably a simple fix, but I am having trouble googling the answer. What I have done was make a copy of a page that is currently on the site and renamed it. So for example I made a copy of page1.htm and renamed it to page1temp.htm. Now when I try to navigate to page1temp.htm it won't display the page, but instead asks for a username/password. If I navigate to page1.htm it still works as expected. I'm not sure what I am missing here. I am using IIS on a Windows Server 2003 R2.
I'm not sure what I need to change in IIS to get the page to display properly. Any help or clues would be greatly appreciated.
Check the NTFS permissions of the file (for example, by right-clicking on the file in Windows Explorer and checking the Security settings). Compare the permissions for both files. Chances are that the user used for anonymous authentication of your web site (might be IUSR_something) has permissions to read one file but not the other.
When I right-click on the local html page and select "Inspect with FireBug Lite" nothing happens... on regular online sites it works except for "https://chrome.google.com/webstore/category/apps"
anyone had the same experience? I have the latest version of the extension (but it's from 2011 :/)
UPDATE: on some local sites it does show! on two web apps (PHP, Rails) it did work, but on a few static HTML files I tried it didn't....
Apparently this is normal...:
It doesn't work on local pages
If by "local pages" you mean files accessed via "file:///" protocol then yes, Firebug Lite doesn't work with "file:///" protocol. This is a JavaScript security restriction to prevent malicious web pages from accessing files in your your machine. Also, please note that the while you can load a "local page" in the browser (it will render properly) it will NOT behave exactly the same as when hosted in a web server.
Solution:
You can solve this problem by loading your page in a web server installed in your machine, so you can access that local files through "http://" addresses. This is the best solution: it is safer, and you'll get the most of what Firebug Lite can give you. I recommend using Apache HTTP Server, but you can use anyone (like IIS for example).
Which exact URL are you visiting? It is an internal Chrome's page
(like "chrome://downloads/"), or some page related to Google Chrome
extensions "https://chrome.google.com/extensions/")?
Google Chrome won't allow content scripts (required by Firebug Lite)
running on such pages. The problem is that Chrome does not inform the
user and neither the extension about it. In other words, there is no way
to Firebug Lite know if the content script was loaded or not, and we
worked around this by sniffing the URL and detecting when you visit
URLs that begins with "chrome://" or "https://chrome.google.com/extensions/",
alerting users in such cases.
You've few options to fix the solution.
One is to use Mozilla Firefox.
Second, install a web server on your system. Try WAMP or XAMPP. Once installed, store all the web pages in the root folder of the web server you just created. Save all the web pages and html files in C:\xampp\htdocs. Navigate to the locally stored webpages using your web browser by going to “127.0.0.1/index.html” or “localhost/index.html”.
Now you can use Firebug-Lite for Google Chrome on local files.
I am currently building an intranet applicaiton using asp.net mvc and I am wondering if there is a way to link to a file or folder available on the network.
I tried simply
open folder
But obviously that won't work as it just gives the output: file:///G:/folder/ which doesn't actually open to anywhere. I understand that this is for security and that is fine, i am jsut wondering if there are any workaround or anything in an intranet setup? Would impersonation of any type possibly work? Any other ideas?
You could open that file from the server, and serve it to the client. Your web server will act as a proxy. If the files are accessible to the server, and there are no special permissions for the users, or if you can encode those permissions in roles or business rules, then it's quite easy.