Mac finder window keeps opening up from a link

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Local Publishing--Name of Folders

Hi there, I have a similar problem. I puplished my site locally in a folder (pagenames are correct). When testing it by opening the “index.html” file, my homepage pops up (Mac, Safari), but when I want to go to my linked pages (impressum etc.) the finder opens and just shows me the folder there, not the site. It works in preview in RW8. Now my question: does this change when I upload it directly to a FTP-Server or did built something wrong? Thank you.

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Local Publishing--Name of Folders

Webpages are designed to be served by a web server. Publishing all pages of a site to a local folder will produce all the files needed for a web server to use. By opening the file(s) directly with a browser, you’re skipping the very important web server step. Web servers like Apache, Nginx or IIS do quite a bit of “stuff” with these files prior to the end users browsers getting them. Thinks like PHP and “tidy links“ are handled. If you’re looking to preview your site locally prior to publishin…