Creating Your First Webpage
By PlanetDomain News | Published  08/6/2007 | Website Development | Rating:
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Q: I've created my page and loaded it onto the server but all I see is the NetRegistry under construction page!

We see this one very regularly in the support team. A webserver needs to have a default file that it displays when someone visits the site. This is typically called 'index.html'. As an example if you have a site called www.abc.com.au and visit it with a web browser, it needs to show a file. By default this will be index.html. Very often clients leave the NetRegistry under construction page (index.html) on the server and publish their main page with a different name like mypage.html. The server doesn't know this is the page you actually want shown by default and simply continues to show the construction page. The fix is to delete the NetRegistry construction page and change the name of your file from mypage.html to index.html and like magic you'll be able to see your site.


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  • Comment #1 (Posted by Kim Sampson)
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    I look forward to reading more.
     
  • Comment #2 (Posted by Sara Martin)
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    I am excited at the prospect of building my own web page. thank you
     
  • Comment #3 (Posted by Milt Mac)
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    Thankyou
     
  • Comment #4 (Posted by an unknown user)
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    Vry helpful
     
  • Comment #5 (Posted by Graham)
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    Very simple good for a beginner, thank you
     
  • Comment #6 (Posted by Jami)
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    very easily explained for new users.
     
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