Changing default page

markjia

My website's host only seems to allow the default page to be called "index.html", but I need it to be PHP. I want "http://www.domain.com/" to point to a file like "index.php".

I was thinking of using some sort of redirection technique. How would you suggest I go about doing this? Javascript (if so, how would could I implement this most efficiently)? The website is hosted on a UNIX server running apache. Does anyone know of any way of changing the default page?

Anon

you can look in your httpd.conf. Make a search for index.html and then there will be something like directory index. There you can add index.php or index.php4 or whatever it should be. (then in every directory firstly index.php will be called)

If you want to redirect by javascript:

ali

Anon

Depending on how Apache is set up, you may be able to wtite an .htaccess file to do this. Create a plain text file with the following line:

DirectoryIndex index.php

Save it as ".htaccess" (note the dot at the beginning of the filename) and upload it to your web root directory.

khaine

Two ways this could be achieved first alter your httpd.conf to parse html files as if they were php scripts. Or my prefered way is to put an index.html which reads

This shoul redirect any browser to the php file.

Mark.

Anon

thats better than my js, but remember that mete refresh can be deactivated in some browsers, too.

ali