The filename of your home page in your www dir should be index.htm.
The webserver will automatically send the file at path /home/yourdomain/www/index.htm when a browser specifies http://www.yourdomain.com.

When your account is set up, there will be an index.htm page already installed. This just tells anyone accessing your domain that your site is under construction and will be available soon. You will replace this file in the www directory with one of your own creation.
If you wish to use any of the cgi features we provide that use Server Side Includes (SSI), you must name your page with the .sht or .shtml extension. You can put an index.htm file in any subdirectory that you wish, and it will be the default page served when you don't want your visitors to have to type a full page URL reference, for example, http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever/ instead of http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever/page.htm, or http://www.yourdomain.com/whatever.htm.
It is important to remember that Unix is cAsE-sEnSitIve, and that "Index.htm" is not the same as "index.htm."

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