regarding index.html

shrndegruv

So when you point your browser at a website the webserver looks in the document root dir (as specified in web server configuration) and finds index.html, then serves that back to the client.

My question is how do I get it so that the first page browsed is the result of a script (PhP in this case!🙂 -- or in other words, what if I want my first page to have dynamic content?

I can only think of two solutions

1) Have some sort of redirect in index.html that sends the browser off to a script. Is this bad because every hit on the site creates two hits, one to get index.html and then the redirect

2) Change web server configuration so that it servers out a file other than index.html. I dont even know if this is possible.

any experienced developers out there who have a good solution? Thanx in advance!

weekender

if you are running apache as your webserver, edit the httpd.conf file and you will find a link beginning with DirectoryIndex - change it to look like this

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

this dictates where the server looks when it goes into a directory

adam

shrndegruv

Thanx for the reply.

if one were to have access to the server that is a good solution -- what are the options if one does not have access to the server?

Basically I am building a site that is hosted on lunarpages -- a hosting company -- so I dont know if I can change what the index file is...

What are the options then?

Moonglobe

any good hosting compny will already have the directory index set up. try it with index.php.