index.html vs index.php?

[j8h9x]

When someone points their browser to my website, what tells the Apache server to serve up index.html as the default? What if I want a different page to be loaded such as index.php? Where is this configured?

[Sxooter]

The answer is in httpd.conf in the /usr/local/apache/conf directory on .tar.gz installed apache. On an rpm install I wouldn't know, I haven't run the rpm version of apache in many years.

#

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

directory index. Separate multiple entries with spaces.

#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
DirectoryIndex index.html
</IfModule>