Fixing 404 Not Found error on static HTML site with no frameworks

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Hi all, I searched for my problem before posting and didn’t see anything that helped.
I am 100% new to Vercel and yesterday was my first time ever using it.

I created a local HTML site using VSCode on my local home machine, uploaded it to GIT.

I created a new Vercel account, and project and linked my project to my GIT repo.
Vercel is connected to GIT, I do see that it gets deployed and there does not seem to be any errors in any of the logs for the project.

But, when I try to view the app/page etc, I just get the 404 error.

My HTML project folder is extremely simple, there are some HTML pages at the root which also has the “index.html” page, then 2 folders which contain CSS and Images.

I ensured that I did not choose any JS frameworks when I setup the project. I chose the “OTHER” option and my ROOT directly is empty… default settings…

Here is the exact error I get

404 NOT_FOUND
Code: ‘NOT_FOUND’
ID: ‘pdx1::2wgr2-1769017253980-5278de7f3545’

I really appreciate any assistance!
Rick

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Hey @orcvma294-4373. Is the index.html file named all lowercase? It’s case sensitive, so you might need to rename if you have it capitalized.

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Hi Amy…

It is capitalized… Index.html

I tried to rename it on my local computer, but GIT keeps renaming it back to an uppercase ‘I’ndex.
Is there something that I can configure if Vercel to tell it to look for an uppercase I in the index.html filename?

EDIT
I came across an article specifying how to use the vercel.json file to create a rewrite allowing you to specify a different page. So, I now have the app portion working kind of… I noticed that on my computer using a completely different browser not in any way having visited the versel site, I can browse to the app url, this works on two different computers, but when I use chrome on my cell, I just get a google search results page.