✅ How Static HTML Routing Works

In static HTML setups, every page must directly match a real file on the server. There’s no routing logic like in WordPress or other CMS platforms.

For example:

• Visiting https://example.com/about-us.html
  ✔️ This works if you have a file named about-us.html in the root folder of your domain.

• Visiting https://example.com/about-us/
  ❌ This does not work by default. That would require a folder called about-us with a file named index.html inside it — and your structure must support that explicitly.

Most issues come from using folder-based URLs like /about-us/, which don’t work unless configured manually.

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⚠️ Common Problem

You upload your website and place all files inside a folder like /my-site/, including inner folders such as /about-us/index.html.

Then you visit:
https://example.com/about-us/
❌ Result: 404 error

Why? Because your actual file path is:
/my-site/about-us/index.html — which doesn’t match the URL route unless specifically handled.

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✅ Correct Setup for Static Sites

To avoid 404 errors:

• Upload all your .html files directly into the root folder of the domain

• Example structure:

/index.html /about-us.html /contact.html /services.html

Then link to these pages like so:
<a href="/about-us.html">About Us</a>

Do not use:

• Folder structures unless absolutely needed

• URLs ending in /about-us/ unless you’ve correctly created a /about-us/index.html and it’s in the right place (root, not buried)

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🧰 3 Steps to Fix It

1. Go to File Manager
   From your dashboard, click the site name > use the File Manager.

2. Move Files to the Root Folder
   Move every page (e.g., about-us.html, contact.html) into the root directory for your domain (where index.html is located).

3. Update Your Links
   Make sure your HTML uses file-based links like:
   /about-us.html not /about-us/

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🧠 Reminder

Hosting can’t guess what you meant. If the file doesn’t exactly match the URL requested, it will return a 404.

So:

• https://yourdomain.com/about.html → works only if about.html exists in the root

• https://yourdomain.com/about/ → doesn’t work unless you’ve made a folder called about with index.html inside it (and it’s in the root)

If in doubt, stick to .html files in the root directory.