How to configure directories on Starter account?

[pmdenlinger]

Have just set up my Starter account basic site and connected to a Github repo. Would like to configure Netlify to search for the index.html file in my public directory, and for my **.js file in the functions directory. How do I do that? Right now Netlify cannot find my files, and I have a File Not Found error.

[dig]

The index.html must reside at the root of the directory/repository you are deploying. It cannot reside in a sub directory.

For instance, if you have a local directory you are developing in called new-website this is a structure you might use.

new-website
├── 404.html
├── about.html
├── assets
│   ├── css
│   │   └── styles.css
│   ├── img
│   │   └── favicon.png
│   └── js
│       └── index.js
└── index.html

Using drag and drop you would deploy the new-website directory. If deploying from git, you would have the git repository initialised inside the new-website directory (so that index.html was at the root.)

[pmdenlinger]

Thank you very much; I followed your instructions and it worked.

[charlottechhum]

@pmdenlinger Thank you for following up and letting us know it worked. And thanks dig for the help!!