Why is the Under Construction default page still showing up even after I have uploaded Index.htm to my account?
The problem here is one of cAsE sEnSiTiViTy. UNIX is fussy about the use of UPPER/lower case and will recognize Index.htm, index.html and index.htm as two distinctly different files.
If the Index.htm file is renamed to index.htm using all lower case and is uploaded to the public_html directory, it will automatically be displayed as the site's index page. While you can use upper and lower case at your descretion for all other documents, you MUST make sure that your file names referenced in your image tags and hyperlinks match the exact names of the files you have uploaded (including upper/lower case) at all times.
To simplify matters, the best course of action is often to just use all lower case characters exclusively both in your HTML and when naming and uploading your files (and avoid long file names with spaces as well). However, the key is consistency. If you name a file MyFile.htm, you must make sure to call it MyFile.htm in your A HREF tag (likewise for image tags) as MyFile.htm, myfile.htm, myfile.HTM etc will all be considered as separate files and a call to one will not retrieve another.
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