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I need some help with an html issue. I've read every tutorial I can get my hands on, but still can't find the answer anywhere.

I have 30 meg of server web space with my ISP, just sitting there unused. I would like to post some .jpgs to it so I can link to them on other threads. I've figured out how to activate the web space and upload the .jpgs to the web space, but I get a 404 error message every time I type in the URL using my browser.

Somebody at my ISP told me that, in order to see and link to the files I have saved there, that I need a file called "index.htm" with the file names of the .jpgs I have saved there. However, nowhere in any of the tutorials I have read does it say what information needs to be in this "index.htm" file. When I type "index.htm" in Google, it returns a bunch of unrelated web sites, none telling me what needs to be in "index.htm."

Do you create "index.htm" with Notepad? With your browser? Can someone please tell me what I need to type into "index.htm"?

Thanks!

"Index.html" is simply a convention used by web servers. If a user types in a url that is a directory, the web server looks in that directory for a page called "index.html" and shows that page to the user.

There is nothing special about the page called "index.html". It is just another web page.

Such a file is NOT necessary if all you want to do is link to the pictures.

Try this test: type in the full URL of one of the jpgs you have stored in your web space into your browser. Do you get the image, or do you get "you don't have permission" or some such error? You may have to set the permissions on the directory, AND the pictures themselves, to allow people to see them.