Index page redirection
Well, in the midst of figuring out how I want to go about changing my site around, I have been playing with the idea of using php Nuke for my site. It dumbs down alot of the coding concepts (for those of us not familiar with php syntax).
Anyways, the default index page for a standard php Nuke site is index.php. This is obviously not index.html.
My question is this, since normal servers look for that index.html page when your doamin is typed into a browser, how would I point the browser to index.php instead? I know there exists java code that does that, but could I (for example) contact my server provider and ask them to change something server side?
Any help is appreciated.
Suzanne posted this at 03:31 — 10th January 2004.
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No -- your server (if set up right) tells the browser to look for the index page, if php is enabled, and it will look for "index" or "home" of any extension.
If you're running Apache and you have an index.html and an index.php file, and you want index.php to be the main page (and it's not happening, and you don't want to delete the index.html page):
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
That will say, hey, grab index.php and if it's not there, then grab index.html.
mjs416 posted this at 13:57 — 10th January 2004.
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Is that a command line for the server or something? Where is that entered?
Greg K posted this at 15:17 — 10th January 2004.
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You place that in a file called .htaccess in the same directory as your home page.
-Greg
mjs416 posted this at 17:31 — 10th January 2004.
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kk, thanks all.
mjs416 posted this at 14:48 — 12th January 2004.
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Well, I have opened the .htaccess file. Just when I think I have the syntax figured out on one thing, another confusing syntax is born. Anyways, below is what the .htaccess file reads:
# -FrontPage-
IndexIgnore .htaccess */.??* *~ *# */HEADER* */README* */_vti*
order deny,allow
deny from all
allow from all
order deny,allow
deny from all
AuthName skreklan.com
AuthUserFile /www/s/skreklan/htdocs/_vti_pvt/service.pwd
AuthGroupFile /www/s/skreklan/htdocs/_vti_pvt/service.grp
DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
The bold part obviously added by me. Will that work where I placed the directory index line? Does it need to be placed elsewhere in the file
?
Suzanne posted this at 15:12 — 12th January 2004.
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First, make sure you have a backup of your .htaccess file!
Then make sure you save that puppy as ASCII and you're good to go.
Test, enjoy.
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_dir.html
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