Hey wass the difference between error 404 and 403? Trying to set up a website, just testing so i loaded(using CuteFTP) up a random webpage i designed using dream weaver... but now it gives me a error 404! i dont get it!!!

 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/404_error
The 404 or Not Found error message is an HTTP standard response code indicating that the client was able to communicate with the server, but the server either could not find the file that was requested, or was unwilling to fulfill the request for it and did not wish to reveal the reason why.

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If you've ever run across a "403 Forbidden" error on a web site, it means you've either stumbled onto the wrong page, or you've been snooping where you shouldn't be!

 

ok, anyone know about a good tutorial on how to setup a web site h: apparently i dont know what i am doing

 

see your host's help/tutorial pages

 

404 is usually a bad address or the file not being there. 403 has to do with permissions on that specific page, usually done with a chmod.

 

First off don't use Dreamweaver.. learn the raw code and use notepad. Its easier to figure shit out and dreamweaver makes REALLLLLY messy code.

403 = access denied
404 = not found

 

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.

htmlgoodies.com is your friend if your a novice at codeing....

 

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.html as the web server classifies index.html as the start page in the root directory of the host.

 

thats exactly what the problem was FIXED!

Why would i want to learn from raw? is dreamweaver really that bad? it seams like a easy way to start.

 

dreamweaver ftl