Valid File Names

What Name Should I Use for My "HOMEPAGE" to Get it to Load Automatically?

The "homepage" is called the directory root. A directory root is the top or primary page for a given directory. It is characterized by the page that is displayed when a page is not specifically called. Examples that would call the page for the directory root without specifically calling it could be:

When a page request doesn't include a specific page name, the website server will return a "homepage" or "directory root page" if present. If not present, a directory listing will appear. To have a page display, it should be named "index.something" where "something" is the file extention and MUST BE all lowercase. The below is a sample of valid names to load automatically:

This list also shows the order of precedence for directory root page names on our system.  As you can see from the list, "index.html" takes highest precedence.  What this means is that if you have two files in your directory, one named "index.html" and one named "index.htm", our system will treat the file named "index.html" as the root page.  Please keep this in mind when you are naming your home page.

What Can My File Names Be?

TC Kopke uses servers which run a variants of UNIX. All UNIX machines are case sensitive. This means that if you upload your files with upper case letters in them, then your references in your HTML code must also match the case. The easiest way to manage this issue would be to keep everything in lower case. UNIX does not recognize spaces in page names even though you may be able to name them with spaces on your computer. Page names should only contain letters and numbers. Special characters, symbols, etc. should be avoided.