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Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 PointsATOM-LIVE-SERVER not working
I HAVE A Surface laptop2 with windows 10. I have chrome and firefox installed. I amtrying to use ATOM as my text editor and down loaded the atom-live-server package. Every time I use the keybinding it opens in microsoft edge and does not display anything but the icons for the files I am trying to load.
8 Answers
Seth Kroger
56,415 PointsWhat sort of project are you doing? The page you're describing is what you'd get from a webserver if there's no index.html file to load. atom-live-server is meant to serve files from an HTML/CSS/JS based webpage, not a backend based project like a PHP or NodeJS based site that would have it's own server.
Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 PointsI am trying to load a basic html page just to test run it.
Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 Points<!DOCTYPE html> <html> <head> </head>
<body> <h1>HELLO</h1>
</body>
</html>
Seth Kroger
56,415 PointsIs the file named "index.html"?
Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 Pointsno
Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 PointsIt was named practice.html
Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 Pointsok, so that worked. I guess there is a standard name for files specific to a language?
Edmundo Ruiz
3,488 PointsHow do I get it to open in chrome instead of Microsoft Edge?
Seth Kroger
56,415 PointsAs I said before the server will look for a file named "index.html" as the default file to serve. If you're getting a list of files your practice.html should be there as a clickable link.