The index.html file

index.html is your site’s front door. Understanding this one file prevents most upload headaches.

The rule

When a visitor lands on your address without naming a specific page, Bailey looks for a file called exactly index.html at the top of your folder and shows it. This is a universal web convention, not a Bailey quirk.

your-address.trybailey.app        →  shows  index.html
your-address.trybailey.app/pricing →  shows  pricing/index.html  (or pricing.html)

The name has to be exact

File name	Does it work?
index.html	✅ Yes
Index.html	❌ No (capital letter)
index.htm	❌ No (wrong ending)
home.html	❌ No (different name)
index.html.txt	❌ No (the real ending is .txt)

The hidden-extension trap

On Windows, file endings are sometimes hidden. A file that looks like index.html might really be index.html.txt. Turn on “Show file name extensions” in the file explorer to check.

At the top, not in a sub-folder

index.html must be right inside the folder you upload:

✅ Good                     ❌ Not good
my-folder/                  my-folder/
├── index.html              └── site/
└── style.css                   ├── index.html
                                └── style.css

In the “not good” case, upload the site/ sub-folder instead (the one that actually holds index.html).

More than one page?

Each sub-folder can have its own index.html, which becomes that sub-folder’s address. contact/index.html will be served at your-address/contact. Most tools handle this for you automatically.