Default php page?

Anon

Is there any way to make the default web page a php page?

I wanted to run a PHP script as my default.htm. Just makeing default.php didn't work and without the .php extension php scripts wont run. I don't want to have to add a \default.php every time I have someone type in my URL... any suggestions?

Please 🙂

craigh

I think you either have to set your web server to do that or you can have the default.htm file automatically redirect to the second page with zero time.

klaus

Hi,

Or you can enable your domain to parse html as php,.. which I wouldn't suggest to do. Your server might suffer a bit. Or you can tell to your script to look for a default.php first. Just like you can do it for default.htm or index.html or what ever. Or you can do it via SSI. This one is better, it's used for .pl stuff. ;-)))

-Gord

Anon

Make your default.htm look like this:

<SCRIPT>
top.location.href('default.php');
</SCRIPT>

It'll redirect the user to default.php

klaus

Hi,

That's not bad too. But what about if someone has a js disabled just I have disabled a visual basic script (can't stand those MS b------) you'll get nothing but a blank page. It's better to use a server side include, or you can modify the default file extension of that default page. You can even put your name as a file extension.

JS is nice, but very limited. The good thing is that everybody can still it. ;-))) You can never know who is visting your site. I use almost all products of macromedia & I just can't visualise their web site as a default page (I need to put after the domain something like /director to reach it), there for I'm gonna throw away all those prodotcs that don't respect not only an open source solution but neither a basic navigator.

-Gord

Anon

Try and see if your server will take .phtml extention, worked for me.
Jim

Anon

This could be stupid, but I modified the DirectoryIndex entry to include index.php. That seems to be working for me.

Anon

You can also use a .htaccess file in the root directory that will change the default page.

rjardin

Hi,

As Mayhem said, modify the DirectoryIndex entry.

Please follow these instructions,

1) Open the Apache configuration file (httpd.conf)

2) Modify the DirectoryIndex entry: replace “DirectoryIndex index.html” by “DirectoryIndex index.html index.php”

3) Stop the Appache Server

4) Start the Appache Server

It should work.

Ricardo