Apache issues

[Lord Nicoll]

Hello guys, after spent an embarrassingly long time learning basic html (barely learned that is, and 6 hours of my life gone) and getting annoyed at apache2, I have decided to just ask here for advise. How the hell do I make the navigation links from the home page lead to other pages? I know that's an incredibly basic thing to ask but this really isn't my forte really. The example navigation link I wanna set up would be:

<li> <a href="#news"> News </a> </li>

I tried putting a html file named #name.html in the same folder as the main page, but that yielded no fruits so I gave up. Should I name the whole file path for the href target? The machine is a linux VM running the LAMP stack. 

Edited May 17, 2018 by Lord Nicoll
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[tikker]

IIRC # are for named anchors, i.e. a section on the same page using

<a name="section1"></a>

<a href="#section1">this goes to section 1</a>

Just

<a href="somepage.html">link</a>

should work though.

[Lord Nicoll]

3 minutes ago, tikker said:

IIRC # are for named anchors, i.e. a section on the same page using

<a name="section1"></a>

<a href="#section1">this goes to section 1</a>

Just

<a href="somepage.html">link</a>

should work though.

Thanks, I'll give that a try now

 

[Lord Nicoll]

11 minutes ago, tikker said:

IIRC # are for named anchors, i.e. a section on the same page using

<a name="section1"></a>

<a href="#section1">this goes to section 1</a>

Just

<a href="somepage.html">link</a>

should work though.

Yep, that pretty much worked once I accounted for the names, thanks a million

 

[Lord Nicoll]

57 minutes ago, tikker said:

IIRC # are for named anchors, i.e. a section on the same page using

<a name="section1"></a>

<a href="#section1">this goes to section 1</a>

Just

<a href="somepage.html">link</a>

should work though.

Oh dear, I can't help but run into problems... To prevent the URL being tezzius.ie/News.html, I set the link to refer to a folder called news, and renamed the file to index.html, so it would not display but only tezzius.ie/News (domain name drop lol) however, I want the navigation bar (visible on the page) to be on all of the pages, and to be able to navigate from one page to another, which won't be easy when they're all in different folders? Should I just put short cuts or something in each of the folders pointing to the respective page? That seems a bad way to do it. 

(Also, if anyone finds any vulnerability in the site, please do let me know, not that I could do much with the info, it would just be nice to know)