Dreamweaver - Coorect folder location for index.html

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Coorect folder location for index.html

TadMM

2005-10-14, 6:32 pm

In setting up websites on my local drive I have the following folder setup with
all sites and corresponding folders within a folder called DWsites.

So, it's my Harddrive, then
DWsites ---> main DW site projects folder
sitea --->a website folder (the root)
html ----> a folder within siteA folder that contains all web pages
including index.html
images -> a folder within siteA folder that contains image files

The question is there any problem with placing index.html in the folder "html"
which is in the siteA folder?
Or should I place index.html it at the top of the folder stack just within the
main "sitA" folder? If so, for organization sake I would put all the other web
pages in folder HTML.

My concern is will I have a remore server problem if index.htm is not in the
root folder (as in finding it)?

Thanks for any and all feedback.

NeilPeartRocks

2005-10-14, 6:32 pm

don't put the index file in any folder

Michael Fesser

2005-10-14, 6:32 pm

..oO(TadMM)

> The question is there any problem with placing index.html in the folder "html"
>which is in the siteA folder?

Probably. What do you want to put in the root folder of the website?

> Or should I place index.html it at the top of the folder stack just within the
>main "sitA" folder?

That's where it's supposed to be. Don't think of an 'index.html' only as
the homepage of a website, but of a default document in a folder. There
_must_ be something in the website's root folder.

>If so, for organization sake I would put all the other web
>pages in folder HTML.

This would mean that you always have a '/html' in the URL, which is
redundant and completely useless. Keep all unnecessary informations out
of the URLs.

> My concern is will I have a remore server problem if index.htm is not in the
>root folder (as in finding it)?

Yep. And more.

Micha