Index page

[Blonde brain]

Probably the most stupid question of the day, however could someone tell me what is the difference between:
www.xxxxxx/acatalog/index.html and
www.xxxxxx/index.html
Thank you.

[Duncan Rounding]

The first is the home page of your Actinic catalog, the second is the root homepage of your domain.
If you decide to use a brochure page as your root domain homepage (the little house icon in Actinic - and check 'Use as Website Homepage') then it will become the second one above and your catalog will be the first one.

[Blonde brain]

Thank you for that.

So what is the difference between simply www.xxxxx/

[Mike Hughes]

web servers usually serve up the file (webpage) that is specifically asked for. In the absence of a file being specified they check for a common default to use in it's place. 'index.html' is usually the first one they check for, followed by other file extensions, .htm, .php, etc, then a few other filenames such as welcome, etc. If they can't find a default page to server up they'll usually list all the files in the directory or throw up an error.

Mike

[jont]

Oops - my fault - moved the homepage proper to the site root and forgot about the .htaccess rule in place picking up the existing path in the template when it was in the /acatalog/ folder