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HTMLHelp Forums _ General Web Design _ Adding a new .html to an existing web page

Posted by: Gardenmega Oct 15 2011, 10:52 PM

Hey guys, first time poster here. I have some knowledge when it comes to designing a web site and I am stumped.

A little background behind what I am trying to do is to help a friend. My friend's grandpa has a website that is hosted on godaddy.com and he wants this one webpage to appear before the main webpage gets displayed. I can easily do this by utilizing their built in URL redirect. My issue comes in when adding this new .html page to the existing directory. The index file is index.php while the file I want to add is People.html. So once I add it to the directory it should then just be <domain>.com/People right? or am I wrong? Once I get this situated, I will just redirect to that page and be done... This may be an easy fix, but I am lost.

Please help.

Thank you,
-Gardenmega

Posted by: pandy Oct 15 2011, 11:19 PM

CODE

http://domain.com/People.html

or if this is done by relative URLs

CODE

People.html

CODE

/People.html

I don't fully understand what you are doing though. You say you want this new page to appear before the main webpage gets displayed. Assuming the main page is index.php, then if you redirect requests for index.php to People.html (and that's all you are doing) no one will ever be able to go to index.php .

Posted by: Christian J Oct 16 2011, 08:21 AM

Sounds like the OP wants People.html to be the site's default page (instead of index.php), and then let it redirect to index.php after a few seconds --is that correct?

Posted by: Gardenmega Oct 16 2011, 04:11 PM

Well I guess I wasn't clear, I put the people.html file in the directory folder, but when i go to domain.com/people.html nothing shows up except for page not foundl. So I guess that is my main issue at this point.

Posted by: Christian J Oct 16 2011, 04:24 PM

QUOTE(Gardenmega @ Oct 16 2011, 11:11 PM)

the file I want to add is People.html. So once I add it to the directory it should then just be <domain>.com/People right?

No, it should be <domain>.com/People.html (<domain>.com/People normally looks for the directory People). Also note that web addresses are case-sensitive (unlike local Windows files).

Posted by: pandy Oct 16 2011, 05:54 PM

QUOTE(Gardenmega @ Oct 16 2011, 11:11 PM)

In your first post you said People.html with a capital P. Servers most often run on operating systems that are case sensitive, unlike Windows.

Posted by: Gardenmega Oct 16 2011, 06:36 PM

You guys are are awesome. It was the fact it was case sensitive. I totally forgot about that fact. Thank you so much! It works, And now I can do what I need to do in a little bit!

Thanks again!
-Gardenmega