{"id":1387,"date":"2025-11-08T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2025-11-08T10:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/my-site-displays-index-of\/"},"modified":"2026-08-19T14:00:53","modified_gmt":"2026-08-19T13:00:53","slug":"my-site-displays-index-of","status":"publish","type":"kb_article","link":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/knowledgebase\/my-site-displays-index-of\/","title":{"rendered":"My Site Displays Index Of"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If your website shows <strong>Index of<\/strong> instead of your website, the server has not found a homepage file in the folder it is loading.<\/p>\n<h2>Add a Homepage File<\/h2>\n<p>Upload your homepage file to the correct website folder.<\/p>\n<p>For the main domain on a hosting account, this is usually:<\/p>\n<p><strong>public_html<\/strong><\/p>\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<\/ul>\n<h2>Check the Filename<\/h2>\n<p>Linux servers are case sensitive.<\/p>\n<p>This means <strong>Index.html<\/strong> and <strong>index.html<\/strong> are different filenames.<\/p>\n<p>Make sure the homepage file is named in lowercase.<\/p>\n<h2>Check the Correct Folder<\/h2>\n<p>If the domain is not your main domain, check the document root for that domain in cPanel.<\/p>\n<p>The homepage file must be uploaded into that domain&#8217;s correct folder.<\/p>\n<h2>Disable Directory Listing<\/h2>\n<p>If you do not want visitors to see a directory listing when no homepage file exists, you can disable indexing in cPanel.<\/p>\n<p>Use the directory privacy or indexes option in cPanel, or contact support if you are unsure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If your website shows Index of instead of your website, the server has not found a homepage file in the folder it is loading.&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"template":"","kb_category":[26],"class_list":["post-1387","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\/1387","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\/1387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2584,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_article\/1387\/revisions\/2584"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"kb_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.4uhosting.co.uk\/articles\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/kb_category?post=1387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}