Originally Posted by yni420 Some hosters need the index file to index.htm and not index.html older systems accept only 3 fig extension

Originally Posted by yni420 Some hosters need the index file to index.htm and not index.html older systems accept only 3 fig extension

yeah that's true but that is usually because of the way they have configured their server.

for example, if you use apache, your config file would be either httpd.conf (if you use Apache v1.x) or apache2.conf (if you use Apache v2.x) and those can define which files to accept as the index files.

typically, that partciular line in the config file looks like this: