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And welcome to the student Q&A section as students take this course,

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usually I get a bunch of questions. Some of them are really really good, some of them I get often.

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And we're going to use these Q&A sections for me to make a reply video to answer some of those really

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really good questions.

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And the first thing we're going to tackle for this video is 'index.html'.

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If we go back to our example that we had, you noticed that I've always used 'index.html' as

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the first page.

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And then we created 'newpage.html'.

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Now you might be asking yourself why 'index.html'.

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Why not 'home.html', or 'apples.html'? And you could actually do that.

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But I can explain this really well by looking at this diagram.

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Most of the time there are more than a few html files.

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You saw that with our example we had our 'index.html' and also 'newpage.html'.

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But when we make that request to let's say google.com, how does the server know which html (file) to

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return first for the homepage?

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And you could go into the server and configure it and tell it you know what I want 'about.html' to

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be the first page. But, by default most servers just say, "I'll return 'index.html'- if I see 'index.html'

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in the servers, I'll just return that."

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So this is just a common practice that you'll see in a lot of the projects that a lot of the websites

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that you'll work with,

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is that 'index.html' is usually, you can think of it as the home-page, the first a HTML file

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that the server returns.

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And if anybody in the 'index.html' clicks on that link, then it will return whichever link they return.

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So there will be - let's say they click on 'About' anchor tag, then they'll get 'about.html'.

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So that's it.

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That is your answer to your question.

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I'll see in the next one. Bye-bye