PHP index page?

Anon

I'm trying to find out if there is a PHP index page.

When I type in a URL, I don't want to type in the name of my PHP home page. I just want to type in the path name. For example, I want to type in ...

http://www.whatever.com/PATHNAME/

I DO NOT want to type in ...

http://www.whatever.com/PATHNAME/index.php

I already named my home page as 'index.php', but when I type my URL with just the pathname it is not working.
I'm getting a 'Page cannot be found' error from the browser.

Anon

This is not a setting in PHP but rather a setting that will depend on your web server software... The setting is different depending on if you are using apache, IIS etc,

Anon

It's possible that the directory index in your server's configuration file is not set to allow indexes of '.php'. If you're running your own version of apache just add 'index.php' to the 'DirectoryIndex' line in httpd.conf or the equivalent for some other server that I'm not familiar with.. if you're hosting with someone else see if they can do it for you.. OR wait for someone else to post that knows more than I do 🙂

Anon

It works !!! thank you for your help.

by the way i am using apache server so it is necessary to restart the server once you make changes to the httpd.conf configuration file.