Uploading your first page

Important Points To Know
When your account is set up a holding page named index.html is automatically placed in your 'web' folder, the root of your website. If you see this page after uploading site content you probably have not replaced the index.html file. When you upload your website files you must ensure that this holding page is either deleted or replaced with your own index.html page.

Note that our servers are case sensitive. As far as our servers are concerned, index.html, Index.html, and index.HTM are three completely different files. We would suggest using only lowercase characters when naming your files. This should simplify things.

A default index page is necessary for your website to appear when an address such as http://www.yourdomainname.co.za or http://www.yourdomainname.co.za/directory is entered in a web browser without specifying a filename.

Our servers are configured to give priority to files in the following order:

• index.html
• index.htm
• index.shtml
• home.html
• home.htm
• default.html
• default.htm
• index.php
• default.php
• index.asp
• default.asp

Delayed Site Updates:
If you cannot see the changes you make to your site when you view it through a web browser (such as MS Internet Explorer, Netscape, Opera or Mozilla) then this most probably means your internet connection ISP uses a proxy server to cache pages you have previously browsed. This is a common practice nowadays on the internet, with ISPs trying to improve internet browsing speeds. However you can bypass such outdated stored caches by including a ? in your target url. For example, if you go to www.yourdomainname.co.za, having modified your site contents, and find that your changes are not yet reflected, then use www.yourdomainname.co.za? and this should bypass the proxy cache.