404 error on a page that exists

**connito** · 03-01-2008, 01:48 PM

i was trying to access a directory with just domain.com/folder and i get this 404 error. i checked my ftp to see if the file was there and it was. there IS a index.php file in the directory and for some reason i asked a lot of my friends to try to access it and they also get the 404 error. i don't have the set homepage thing in my htaccess so i don't know why it's doing that. this also happened to one of my subdomains. can anybody tell me why its doing that?

**redsox9** · 03-01-2008, 02:08 PM

It shouldn't be necessary to add anything to your .htaccess file; servers usually assume that any file labeled index is the default file. Of course, you could add the line to your .htaccess file and see if that does help!

Code:

DirectoryIndex index.php

Of course, index.php can be replaced by filename.html, index.cgi, or any other file, or you can list several files in order of preference.

**Basil** · 03-01-2008, 04:41 PM

How about a link to the problem?

**connito** · 03-02-2008, 08:35 AM

i contact bluehost and now its fixed :P

**jansportw** · 03-05-2008, 11:17 PM

out of curiosity what was the problem?

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