Making an invisible index file

[Anon]

I've seen quite a few sites like truemeaningoflife.com and megatokyo.com that don't show /index.php or something similar in the address bar when you pull them up. How can I create an index.php file that is sent to the user when a user just types in blah.com instead of having to type blah.com/index.hp? So far when I put an index.php in the main directory I get a http 403 error when i just type blah.com/directory although it does work when i type in blah.com/directory/index.php

[Anon]

This is not done via a php script. This is done from the server configuration. The DirectoryIndex directive for an apache server would be where you would configure this. IIS usually uses default.htm etc etc. AFAIK, there is no way you can do this with a PHP script...at least not an easy way...

anyone else?

[Anon]

Would a default.php work? or will html files execute embedded php scripts?

[Anon]

Yes it would work if you tell your server to do it

html files are html files and are (on a sane server setup) not parsed by PHP.

[Anon]

With apache you can usually set it in your srm.conf:

DirectoryIndex: Name of the file to use as a pre-written HTML

directory index (The default page if none is typed)

DirectoryIndex default.php index.html index.htm index.php

Now it looks for default.php first, index.html, index.htm, lasty index.php.

[Anon]

Or in http.conf in the later version of apache.