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proshonjitdas
301 PointsError 404
I have a problem with copying and pasting index.html to about.html and receive a 404 error message, why?
Already made sure the names are correct.
Nav as per below:
<nav> <ul> <li><a href="index.html" >Portfolio</a></li> <li><a href="about.html">About</a></li> <li><a href="contact.html">Contact</a></li> </ul> </nav>
2 Answers
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsThe file does not exist you are trying to access and that is why you are getting a 404. Make sure to create the about.html and contact.html file. They will need to be in the same folder of your index.html file.
rodrigosantome
485 PointsI am having the same problem. Everything looks the same as the video shows but I get an 404 Not Found message when I click on About.
proshonjitdas
301 Pointsproshonjitdas
301 PointsDone but still getting error 404.
Created about.html and contact.html. Put them together under one folder together with index.html
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsSue Dough
35,800 PointsDoes the URL in the browser show about.html at the end of it when you click it and it 404's?
proshonjitdas
301 Pointsproshonjitdas
301 PointsYes.
URL: http://port-80-83t5axdrtj.treehouse-app.com/About.html
Error message:
404 Not Found
nginx/1.6.2
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsSue Dough
35,800 PointsCould you have named your files or code with a capital by any chance? Everything should be lowercase.
proshonjitdas
301 Pointsproshonjitdas
301 PointsYes did that check also.
All reference to any pages are in lower cases
Is there any other possible scenarios?
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsSue Dough
35,800 Pointshttp://www.tinyupload.com/
Upload your ZIP here and post the URL. That way I can check locally.
proshonjitdas
301 Pointsproshonjitdas
301 Pointshttp://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=38360979811763422491 http://s000.tinyupload.com/?file_id=48559522641329549045
Here you go thanks.
By the way ghost how do you check locally?
Sue Dough
35,800 PointsSue Dough
35,800 PointsOkay I downloaded both of them and put it into a folder called test. The about.html page does not 404 and it works fine. I did notice the files I downloaded were named about.html.txt and index.html.txt . I am not sure if you had to change them to text files to send them. If you didn't, that could be your error. You would need them to be about.html and index.html and make sure they are HTML documents and not txt.
I usually do local testing in XAMPP. However in your case I just right clicked the file and pressed open with chrome.
proshonjitdas
301 Pointsproshonjitdas
301 PointsI left the .txt
I am new to coding so I taught if the file extension of .html you might not be able to open it.
So what you are saying is that it works locally just not through the workspace?
William Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 PointsWilliam Li
Courses Plus Student 26,868 Pointsjust get rid of the .txt, file extension should be .html, end of story.
proshonjitdas
301 Pointsproshonjitdas
301 PointsWilliam,
The .txt is only for the attached text files.
The about.html page doesn't work from the workspace.