Help getting the right URL right for files on my new website

[lindaM13]

https://bbsacel.great-site.net

Hi, I have links from my home page to other index files on my website, which I am going to move from one host to InfinityFree. For example one index file is in a directory called signals. I’ve been trying to work out what the correct URL will be to create a link within the website. As there are a lot of links to enable people to load up some e-learning (created with Xerte) and documents I’d like to get it right before I start changing them all.

https://bbsacel.great-site.net/ htdocs/Signals/index.htm

[JxstErg1]

Hi and welcome to the forum!

@Admin

The htdocs folder is NOT visible in the URL

The base of your website is linked to a htdocs folder. This means that, by default, a file name on your account matches the path coming after the htdocs part.

So if you have a file with the path htdocs/about.html, the URL will be http://example.com/about.html and the file at htdocs/images/logo.png will have the URL http://example.com/images/logo.png .

In other words, the htdocs part should NOT be included in website URLs. Unless, of course, you create an additional folder with the name htdocs within your website’s htdocs folder (so htdocs/htdocs/photo.jpg).

So, the right URL should be Signals/index.htm, or just Signals/ as index.htm is one of the default index files.

[lindaM13]

That’s really helpful. Thank you