I created a web site using FrontPage. By default, the filename extension of all the pages in the web site is "htm". The filename of my home page is "index.htm". However, when I put my web site onto the server, it doesn't work, since my server can only recognize "index.html" as the home page of the site. I attempted to rename the file "index.htm" as "index.html" in FrontPage, but I got the warning message "If you change a filename extension, the file may become unusuable." What can I do to about this? Thank you.
I just had exactly the same problem last weekend. I was using CuteHTML as my editor and it defaults to .htm extensions whenever I save my source code. Well, what do you know ..... after FTPing the files up onto the server, all the links are unstable because of the inconsistency of the file extensions with the server protocols.
I went ahead and changed the extensions to .html and everything works fine now. So, as wluke mentioned, ignore the warning because you already know that .htm doesn't work, what other options do you have ..... only 1 - "Change the extensions to .html"
The reason FrontPage warns you is because if you change the extension to a non web one, you might have problems. But changing between .htm and .html are both exactly the same format, so it won't make a difference.
The point of them programming it like that is that by default Windows Command Line utilities still use the 8.3 filename convention. Its called backwards compatibilty. Windows still uses 3 letter extensions. You can always go into Explorer and choose options off the view menu and change the extension for HTML documents from just *.htm to *.htm;*.html and the "problem" should go away. Internet Explorer 5.01 makes these changes for you as well.
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