Q. How should I name my files? Are there any restrictions?
A. Your filenames should be made up of letters, numbers, dashes (-), underscores (_), and periods (.). Any other characters may cause problems. Do not put spaces anywhere in your filename, including at the end of the filename.
Your HTML files should have filenames ending in .html or .htm. Your homepage, in each folder, should be called index.html or default.html. If you're using Server Side Includes, your filenames should end with .shtml or .shtm . An SSI homepage would be named index.shtml or default.shtml.
Plain text files, which do not have any HTML markup in them, should have filenames ending in .txt.
Do not give any of your files a name with .log in it, or you will experience problems.
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