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"Sorry, there is no index for this site

This user has not yet uploaded their index file. (index.htm or index.html)

Please try again at a later date.

Please click here to go to the Tiscali homepage. "

I'm the user and I have no idea what this index thing is. I've managed to connect with my ftp client and dont know what to do next :)
 
Your home page should be called index.htm/html and uploaded directly into your freespace's root directory :)

Then it can by accessed by going to: yourfreespace/index.html

Hope this helps.

SW.
 
if there is an existing index.htm/html page then try deleting it. fail that you will have to create your own page with the files listed
 
Put this into Notepad:

<html>
<head>
<title>My Files</title>
</head>
<body>
<a href="mydocument01.doc">Document 01</a><br />
<a href="mydocument02.doc">Document 02</a><br />
<a href="mydocument03.doc">Document 03</a><br />
</body>
</html>

Modify/add/delete as appropriate.

Save it as "index.html" without quotes, then upload it to your space, along with your files.

You now have a list of your files on your site!

Normally having no index.html will cause a list of files anyway, but your host seems to have disabled that.
 
By default web browsers look for a sites index when trying to locate a resource within a directory on a webserver.

Standard pages being depending on the server technology used.

index.htm
index.html
default.htm
default.html
default.asp
index.asp
index.php

What you need is too create a HTML formatted document, name it index.htm and place it in the root folder on your FTP server then youll be able to view its contents.
 
He wants a directory listing. This means an .htaccess file.

Make a new file in notepad and put the line:

Options +Indexes

as the only part of the file. Save it as .htaccess (not .htaccess.txt) and upload it.
 
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