access second webpage

[dmrob99]

I am new to HTML and Filezilla, so please bear with me on what has to be a simple question....
For a class project, I created 3 webpages in notepad: index.html, gallery.html and contact.html.

I used filezilla to upload to server.
The index.html page fine - everything works except when I try to link to the other pages. I have tried and tried to figure out the right url to use, but keep getting "not found" messages.
Here is the pattern I am trying:
http://example.com/public_html/gallery.html/
I have tried leaving off public..., "I have tried leaving off the .html
I am really stumped and would appreciate any help. Thanks

[boco]

http://example.com/public_html/ is your so called webserver root. In other words, for your website files that's the root directory. You could use absolute linking by using "/gallery.html" and "/contact.html" as link targets, but the recommended method is relative linking. Since your three files are in the same directory it's actually easy - link targets are "gallery.html" and "contact.html" (only the filenames). With relative linking your little site will always work no matter where you move it, as long as you keep all three files together.

1. For relative links, you just use the relative path, seen from the current file. Everything that's the same does not need to be specified.
2. Relative link targets do not start with a "/".
3. You can use the "." (same dir) and ".." (parent dir) special descriptors. Note that the former can be left out.
4. Do not include the domain name in your links unless you have to (linking to other domains)!

Examples:
a) Target in the same directory: Only the filename, e.g. "gallery.html" (or "./gallery.html")
b) Target in a subdirectory 'images': only the subdirectory name and the filename, everything else is the same for source and target ==> "images/gallery.html"
c) Target in the parent directory: Use parent directory descriptor, "../index.html" <== used to jump back from a subdirectory like in example b)

Note: When giving URL examples always use the special example.* hosts, they have been put aside by the IANA specially for documentary purposes. You can use any TLD (Top Level Domain) such as example.info, example.org, example.com.

[dmrob99]

Thank you so much!!!!!!! I appreciate it - you made it simple!