Index.html default?
I would acually like to know if its possible to go to another page instead of index.html, ie splash.html, when my site is accessed? If you know, I'll pass it on to my host, his server..
I would acually like to know if its possible to go to another page instead of index.html, ie splash.html, when my site is accessed? If you know, I'll pass it on to my host, his server..
Suzanne posted this at 22:21 — 5th June 2002.
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Yes, your host can set the page to be anything he pleases.
Or you can, with the DirectoryIndex command in your .htaccess file.
mairving posted this at 01:52 — 6th June 2002.
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In an .htaccess file (assuming that your host in running apache), the
statement as Suzanne mentioned is:
<?phpDirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php splash.html
?>
It looks for the first file listed, then the second if the first is not found, on down the list.
Of course, the big question is why not just rename your file from splash.html to index.html.
Mark Irving
I have a mind like a steel trap; it is rusty and illegal in 47 states
Suzanne posted this at 02:05 — 6th June 2002.
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I can answer that one, Mark. I have a script that I'm using from a third part that has the main page called photos.php. But it's in its own folder. I don't want to have to go in and figure out all the ways to fix the url in the script, so I just used a DirectoryIndex.
I also used it to fix a badly written site for a client without having to break all the urls, and more than once to make index.php work when I couldn't get the server admin to wake up and set index.php as a default page/extension in the httpd-conf file, and the site was showing the contents of a directory rather than the index.php file.
nuk3 posted this at 05:30 — 6th June 2002.
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Thanks for you feedback!
Also, Is it possible just to type in extensions with the directory index command, i.e: .htm .html .shtml .php ?
Suzanne posted this at 07:19 — 6th June 2002.
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no, that's a different function, either the event handler or mime type (depending on what you want to do).
What are you wanting to do?
nuk3 posted this at 08:17 — 6th June 2002.
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I'll just use the DirectoryIndex command, thanks anyway.
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