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I recently purchased a hosting plan from a provider. They gave me temporary url of accessing the hosting space, controlpanel, ftp details.

Now when I deleted all the files from public_html and put up a index.html, then on clicking on the temporary url,everytime a files gets downloaded (with download name). What can be the issue?

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This is the kind of question who should be dealt with service support from the hosting company. A possibility is that you have deleted .htaccess, but there are too many unknown variables... – Osvaldo Dec 3 '11 at 9:47
I would put that as the answer @Osvaldo – Toby Dec 3 '11 at 13:28
I believe you should contact your provider about your issue. Good luck. :) – Mark Shawn Dec 5 '11 at 3:37

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This is the kind of question who should be dealt with service support from the hosting company. A possibility is that you have deleted .htaccess, but there are too many unknown variables...

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Your mime type is wrong on either host or the client. Probably the host. Change the *.htacess to include 

AddType text/html *.html *.htm

Many subpar/budget hosts will have some kind of mime type control in their website control panels. Try to find it. It is usually associated with Apache.

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