does files with .html extension work on linux server?
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does files with .html extension work on linux server?
i have a website created with pages having .html extensions. i would like to host it on a linux server. do i need to rebuild the web site or can i directly upload it on to a linux server?
Any web server will serve html. That's what they are designed for.
The extensions that it will serve and parse will only depend on how the web server is configured. 99.99% of the servers are configured to serve files with html/HTML extensions as html, and to use "index.html" or "index.php" as the default nowadays. No admin ever changes that unless it's doing a very odd thing with the server (and in that case s/he probably picked the incorrect tool, since the purpose of html servers is to serve html...).
Most servers will be able to serve additional mime and file types (txt, php, xml, svg...), it all depends on how it was compiled and configured.
In short, if your files are valid html you shouldn't need to change anything, regardless of the host OS.
FYI, if you created those pages on an MS system, you'll have to run the dos2unix util over them after you've uploaded them. MS and Linux use different line-ending sequences.
Another thing to consider, is that ALL your links, and file references must be case sensitive. In a winblows server, they usually ignore case.
example of good html in Linux if the file linked is named Love_Song.mp3:
Code:
<a href="mp3s/Love_Song.mp3">A Love Song</a>
If the file were named 'love_song.mp3' it would not work in linux servers beit apache, lighttpd, or others.
Further, please remember that file names in Linux are case sensitive. If you have a link (URL) within a page, the link should have the same capitalisation as the physical linked file.
Eg:
If the physical file is called MYNEXTPAGE.html, the URL in the originating page should be only MYNEXTPAGE.html and cannot be MyNextPage.html, MYNEXTPAGE.HTML or any other capitalisation.
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