New Site, default page view?

[morgang]

I'm a complete beginner. My site shows the index of the public directory. I placed a simple html "coming soon" page in the same directory, but don't know how to get the page to display instead of the directory. Help?

I asked the web host company, but they said they are administrators, not web designers. They logically expect that I would have more knowledge, but I don't yet. I'm reading, but if someone could please answer this one question, I don't want people looking at my site index.

Thanks

 

[temi]

What did you call your coming soon page? some seververs you need to call your page index.html or index.htm for it to display properly.

I can fix this for you if you give me your site url (You can send me a PM if you do not want your site url displayed on this thread)

Thanks

 

[morgang]

Thanks, Temi. Changing it to index.html did the trick.

 

[temi]

Excellent, I am pleased its sorted