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Kaushal Jain
Kaushal Jain

Reputation: 139

Index.html is deleted but still browser loads it upon running the web application?

I am new to web development and I am self-teaching myself web-development through online tutorials.

My question:

This is my first web application and I deleted the original index.html that netbeans provides by default upon creating a web-app and instead created my welcome page as register.html

I duly specified the welcome file as register.html in my deployment descriptor as:

<welcome-file-list>  
    <welcome-file>register.html</welcome-file>  
</welcome-file-list>

But the problem is whenever I run my project it still shows the index.html(which I have already deleted) as the home page of my project on the browser. i.e.

**localhost:8080/myprojectname/** is still showing the index.html which is not even there and not my register.html which I mentioned in my deployment descriptor.

I just started to study web-development two hours ago and I know I am making some serious mistake, please can anyone point out my mistake to me and help me.

Thank You!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 2461

Answers (1)

Megha Dev
Megha Dev

Reputation: 180

Did you try clearing up the browser cache? In case not, then one way is:

  • Open google chrome, press F12, this will open the debugger.
  • Now on the browser itself, long click over the refresh button, it will show a drop down with 3 options.
  • Select the last one: "Empty cache and Hard reload"

This should clear up the cache and on refresh, your html file should not be available anymore.

Upvotes: 2

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