Direct access to a sub-directory

[stoid]

How do I set it up so that someone can directly access a sub-directory of my website? I assume that you would just place an index.htm file in theat directory, but that doesn't work. Example: http://www.purentropy.com/physicalmedia/ gives a 404, but http://www.purentropy.com/physicalmedia/index.htm loads properly. Notice in the 'real-world' example, http://www.apple.com/hardware/ and http://www.apple.com/hardware/index.html both load the same information.

What am I doing wrong?

 

[rainman::|:|]

I'm 99.9% sure it's a server-side configuration, when you type a URL like apple.com/hardware their server automatically redirects the non-specific request to the index.html document. I know it's a server-side option to change the default page, if you wanted apple.com/hardware to redirect to apple.com/hardware/hardware.html.

Any time I've ever run a website, it was enabled automatically. I've never had one that it won't work for subdirectories... So... contact your webhost.

edit: dude, i tried it myself, both of your links above load the same page. perhaps you're the only one seeing the problem.

paul

 

[stoid]

perhaps you're the only one seeing the problem.

paul

well, that sure is irritating. is it working for everyone else?

 

[davecuse]

Try renaming it as index.html. If that doesn't work it's either going to require you contacting your host or editing your .htaccess. Also some of the images aren't loading properly, I would add the following line of code in the head element

<base href="http://www.purentropy.com/physicalmedia/">

 

[Counterfit]

well, that sure is irritating. is it working for everyone else?

Both worked fine for me.

 

[stoid]

Try renaming it as index.html. If that doesn't work it's either going to require you contacting your host or editing your .htaccess. Also some of the images aren't loading properly, I would add the following line of code in the head element

<base href="http://www.purentropy.com/physicalmedia/">

I was messing with Dreamweaver's FTP abilities and managed to upload a file with references to local files which obviously don't exist on your machine. That problem has been fixed now. However, somewhere in the process of setting up the syncing, it functions now on my end too. Unfortunately, I won't get to updating the site again for a couple of days, but I'll let you guys know once the site is complete.