Originally Posted by Ctrld-Kaos
make sure that the file u upload is called index if your just going to your domain name... ie
www.domain.com... if there is no index.html/asp/xml/etc etc you will get the 404. also most hosting servers are case sensitive. so, if your going to your page and you type it in as blah.html, when on the server the file is called Blah.HTML, you will get the 404.
Its not the hosting server its the hosting servers OS. If the hosting server is running windows you will be fine as windows is dumb that way.. but if the hosting server is linux/unix then its a different ball park. Linux/Unix is very case sensitive and a lot of people don't realize this.
Secondly a webpage can be named whatever you want; fat.htm(l) etc. The big difference is that in order for a webserver to properly show a webpage as a "start" page it needs to be named index.htm
l as the web server classifies index.html as the start page in the root directory of the host.