I need help please, im sure it's somthing simple.

mommasboy · - Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 6

First i'd like to say i did do a search and this has been talked about before, but i did not seem to get a clear answer.
I have a index.html file that's been tested on my isp's web space and works fine, when i go to the site it fires up and works wonderful. However, when i add the same index.html to C:\Program Files\Abyss Web Server\htdocs, i get a list of index of/ instead of it showing my web server correctly.
During my search somone mentioned configuring Abyss to point to the index.html, however, the only location i could find was telling me this was a bad path. so i am not certian where i should go to do this and or what i should to to correct this problem. im kinda new at all this so if you dont mind keep it as simple as you can.
Thanks for time, in need of help.

aprelium · - Joined: 22 Mar 2002 Posts: 6800

mommasboy,

Please send your abyss.conf file to support@aprelium.com (and do not forget to write 1 or 2 lines to explain the problem.)
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GagnierA · Posted: Sun Feb 27, 2005 7:34 pm Post subject:

did you check to see if the "html" extension has a valid value in your server configuration under Mime Types? Seems to me that this is where the problem lies. It should be under the "text/html" type, and just make sure it's one of the associated extensions...if it isn't, just add it in :)

Hope this helps, but as far as I know "html" should be a default value in the "text/html" type.

mommasboy · - Joined: 27 Feb 2005 Posts: 6

sorry i took so long, I figured out quite by acc. I'll post the solution in case someone else runs into the same problem, and yes it turned out to be a simple problem.
What i did was reinstall Abyss to see if i could get that index to show instead of list INDEX OF/. Sure enugh the welcome to Abyss worked fine. So next I created yet another index.html and added it to my folder removing the abyss one and poof i was back to the INDEX OF/ again. im thinking this cant be right im missing somthing so I double checked my index file and noticed it was index.html.html. Im thinking i dont remember two .html's before so i simply named it index.
What do ya know it works fine. i learned thet the program puts .html in there for you so if i named it index.html it added .html behind it causing me to display a list instead of the accual web site. now i know and i certinaly hope this helps somone else down the road cause it took me 2 hours to find it LOL.

ty for the help by the way :)

GagnierA · Posted: Tue Mar 01, 2005 4:10 am Post subject:

that doesn't make sense...must be just a flukey coincidence, or a bug. Regardless of the number of extensions, the file is still only recognized by the last one....so you could have a file called "poop.doc.txt.htm" and it would still display as a hypertext file. Weird, but it if worked out for ya that's good...