: Index.html in subdirectory will not open I want to have a website structure like this: example.com/ - homepage example.com/solutions/ - this will be the solution parent page example.com/solutions/solution-one

@Jessie594

If you can SSH into your host log in and check the folder and file permissions on that sub-directory. they should be normal but may have gotten changed inadvertently.

You can use .htaccess to define the default page but it doesn't sound like locating it is the issue here.

Check that you have no other strangely named files. Try deleting everything in the directory other than your index.html and try again. Your server may be trying to default to something else prior to index.html like home.html for example.

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@Chiappetta492

Oh please dont do it like that! Just use a pretty-url code and you can do whatever you want in php:

RewriteEngine on
# If it does not exist as a directory
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-d
# And if it does not exist as a file
RewriteCond %{REQUEST_FILENAME} !-f
# Then add .php to get the actual filename
RewriteRule ^(.*)/? index.php?url= [L]


In index.php $_GET['url'] will now be /solutions/solution-one. You can explode or or do whatever you like with it. This is the way to go, not subdirs with an index.

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@Sue5673885

Try to setup "Default page(D)" in the .Htaccess

.htaccess Editor

Example:

DirectoryIndex index.html
order deny,allow

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