{"id":1386,"date":"2026-06-10T12:45:00","date_gmt":"2026-06-10T11:45:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/naming-your-home-page\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:30","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:30","slug":"naming-your-home-page","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/naming-your-home-page\/","title":{"rendered":"Naming Your Home Page"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Your homepage is the file that loads automatically when someone visits your domain.<\/p>\n<h2>Accepted Homepage Filenames<\/h2>\n<p>Common homepage filenames include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>index.html<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>index.htm<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>index.php<\/strong><\/li>\n<li><strong>index.shtml<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>If more than one homepage file exists in the same folder, the server will load the one with the highest priority.<\/p>\n<p>For most websites, use <strong>index.html<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<h2>Use Lowercase Filenames<\/h2>\n<p>Linux servers are case sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>This means <strong>Index.html<\/strong> is not the same as <strong>index.html<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Use lowercase filenames for homepage files.<\/p>\n<h2>Put the File in the Correct Folder<\/h2>\n<p>For the main website on your hosting account, upload the homepage file to:<\/p>\n<p><strong>public_html<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>For another domain on the same hosting account, upload the homepage file to that domain&#8217;s document root.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Your homepage is the file that loads automatically when someone visits your domain. Accepted Homepage Filenames Common homepage filenames include: index.html index.htm index.php index.shtml&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[26],"class_list":["post-1386","kb_article","type-kb_article","status-publish","hentry","kb_category-web-hosting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1386","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/kb_article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1386\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1388,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1386\/revisions\/1388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=1386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}