# Correct way to display index **URL:** \ **Category:** Deployment\ **Created:** [October 19, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/correct-way-to-display-index/117757 "2007-10-19T23:18:04Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 11:18pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/correct-way-to-display-index/117757/1 "2007-10-19T23:18:04Z")
I have this app that I have put on my GoDaddy account and while I can get the rails welcome page to display, I can’t get the intro page to my app to display. this is the site: [http://www.cottoncandyleague.com/league/](http://www.cottoncandyleague.com/league/) I configured a symbolic link which, I thought, would link to this page, but it didn’t. I have a directory structure similiar to this: rails\_apps → league → app, public, components, config, lib, etc. I’m wondering if I either have the directory structure set-up wrong or something is wrong with my symbolic link? Or both? Or maybe I have a file mis-configured? The symbolic link is set as rails\_apps =\> league. Anyone one out there who has set-up a rails app on GoDaddy have any suggestions - GoDaddy themselves have been less then helpful. Thanks, -S ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 19, 2007, 11:45pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/correct-way-to-display-index/117757/2 "2007-10-19T23:45:45Z")
Shandy, You need to delete the index.html file in the public directory. Then rails will use your default action for the index page. ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:24pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/correct-way-to-display-index/117757/3 "2007-10-20T16:24:00Z")
Marlon M. wrote: > Shandy, > > You need to delete the index.html file in the public directory. Then > rails will use your default action for the index page. Even if the index page is the rails index page? ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 4:27pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/correct-way-to-display-index/117757/4 "2007-10-20T16:27:28Z")
If you’re seeing the rails splash page, that means the index.html page in your public folder is the original rails one. Just rename it if you’re not 100% certain. ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 7:55pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/correct-way-to-display-index/117757/5 "2007-10-20T19:55:15Z")
Marlon M. wrote: > If you’re seeing the rails splash page, that means the index.html page > in your public folder is the original rails one. Just rename it if > you’re not 100% certain. Didn’t work. I must admit that I am totally lost. I erased all index.htm pages that I can find on my site - at this point there is almost nothing up there, so erasing the index files was easy, but still it is displaying that rails welcome page. I have also noticed that everything was somehow deleted from my public folder this morning, not saying that I couldn’t have mistakenly erased the contents but… Thanks, -S ---
**Author:** ![snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/c2a13f/32.png) [@snantz](https://www.ruby-forum.com/u/snantz)\ **Post date:** [October 20, 2007, 9:30pm UTC](https://www.ruby-forum.com/t/correct-way-to-display-index/117757/6 "2007-10-20T21:30:42Z")
Yep. If I recall, it tells you to delete file. 😉 Sent from my iPhone On Oct 20, 2007, at 7:24 AM, Shandy N. \