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How should I name the start/home/intro page of my website?


There are certain files that webservers look for when accessing a directory. These
files are the ones that appear automatically when a domain name is entered. The
following names are the ones which are recognized. They are sorted in order of
priority. If for example, in one directory there are two filenames which appear in
the list, then the server will load the file higher up on the priority list.

Here are the accepted file names on Linux Shared Hosting Packages:

index.html
home.html
welcome.html
index.htm
default.htm
index.shtml
home.shtml
index.cgi
home.cgi
home.wml
index.wml
index.php4
index.php
index.php5


Here are the accepted file names MS Shared Hosting Packages:

default.aspx
default.asp
default.htm
default.html
home.htm
home.html
home.asp
home.aspx
index.asp
index.htm
index.html
index.shtml
index.aspx

For Internet-capable WAP mobile phones, the file extension must not be .html,
but .wml. WAP pages are supported in all our packages. The default document's name
would be home.wml or index.wml

Please note the order and character cases in these file names.


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