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Firefox home page from My Webs.

Asked by Steven Shoen

Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3.0.8

I am a recent convert to Ubuntu and I love it. This is my first post on this forum.

I have a web that I created in my Documents folder. I use the html web for personal uses on my pc. It is not published online.

My home page is titled: index.htm and opens fine with Firefox when I browse to the folder and click on it. However when I try to use it as my Homepage I get the following error:
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File Not Found

Firefox can't find the file at /home/steve/Documents/My%20Webs/index2.htm.

    * Could the item have been renamed, removed, or relocated?
    * Is there a spelling, capitalization, or other typographical error in the address?
    * Do you have sufficient access permissions to the requested item?
**********************************************************************
Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Jeffrey (jwh400-gmail) said : 		#1

You say the file name is 'index.htm' but the path shown in the error is 'index2.htm'.

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Steven Shoen (steve-shoenphoto) said : 		#2

You're right. The name is index2.htm, I was just stating that it was a htm file. The actual name shouldn't matter.

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adsadasda (asdsadasdsa-deactivatedaccount) said : 		#3

actually jeffrey is right about this.it does matter the name because firefox is looking for a file named index2.htm not index.htm so you have to change the path and write the right path to works.it doesn't matter when you are using an apache server.

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Steven Shoen (steve-shoenphoto) said : 		#4

I'm sorry that I'm not making myself clear. I DO have index2.htm selected as the homepage in Firefox. I will fix the the post.

My question is:

Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3.0.8

I am a recent convert to Ubuntu and I love it. This is my first post on this forum.

I have a web that I created in my Documents folder. I use the html web for personal uses on my pc. It is not published online.

My home page is titled: index2.htm and opens fine with Firefox when I browse to the folder and click on it. However when I try to use it as my Homepage I get the following error:
**********************************************************************
File Not Found

Firefox can't find the file at /home/steve/Documents/My%20Webs/index2.htm.

    * Could the item have been renamed, removed, or relocated?
    * Is there a spelling, capitalization, or other typographical error in the address?
    * Do you have sufficient access permissions to the requested item?
**********************************************************************
Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Steven Shoen (steve-shoenphoto) said : 		#5

Ubuntu 8.10, Firefox 3.0.8

I am a recent convert to Ubuntu and I love it. This is my first post on this forum.

I have a web that I created in my Documents folder. I use the html web for personal uses on my pc. It is not published online.

My home page is titled: index2.htm and opens fine with Firefox when I browse to the folder and click on it. I bookmarked the page and can open it that way too. However when I try to use it as my Homepage in Firefox I get the following error:
**********************************************************************
File Not Found

Firefox can't find the file at /home/steve/Documents/My%20Webs/index2.htm.

    * Could the item have been renamed, removed, or relocated?
    * Is there a spelling, capitalization, or other typographical error in the address?
    * Do you have sufficient access permissions to the requested item?
**********************************************************************
Any help would be very much appreciated.

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Best Jeruvy (jeruvy) said : 		#6

Steven,

I cannot reproduce this error. It works properly without Firefox displaying any error. Tested on Firefox 3.0.8, Gecko/2009032711 Ubuntu/8.04 (hardy)

I also note that that if I have a space in a directory (ie: "My Webs") the space is displayed normally and not as "%20" as your error indicates. I would delete the "My%20Webs" directory and recreate it as "My Webs" and then test your document.

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Steven Shoen (steve-shoenphoto) said : 		#7

You are right! Thanks much.

In Firefox I went to Edit > Preferences > Main and highlighted "%20" in homepage link. I replaced it by hitting the spacebar to put an actual space in.

Worked like a charm.

I don't know why but it was actually "%2520" instead of "%20" at the time I replaced it.

Thanks again Jeruvy,
Steve