File Naming Conventions

Hosting for Humans uses the Linux operating system on our servers, which is the leading industry OS for a variety of reasons — it’s the most stable, reliable, and robust, for starters. Linux is a case sensitive operations system: on a Linux computer, FILE.html and file.html would be two distinct, unique files.

What this means for you is that your HTML files or graphic file names must exactly match the references in your HTML code — an HTML document linking to “file2.html” would return a file not found error if “File2.html” was the actual name of the web page on the server (and vice versa) The easiest way around this issue, and the one most web designers and programmers use, is to keep everything lower case. Though you can use spaces and special characters in file names, it is are generally not a good idea since different web browsers may experience problems with them. Again, a good rule of thumb is to use all one word, lower case names.

You may also wish to read our FAQ on how you can ensure an automatically loading index or home page here.

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