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13 August 2006

Question from the clueless: How can I specify the home page for a .com to be something other than index.html?

post by: chewatadistance at: 14:17 | 9 comments

So I have no index.html in the root, but I have a main.php that is 2 subdirectories below that I want the site to open to. If that makes any sense.

posted by chewatadistance 13 August | 14:22

What web server are you using? Apache? IIS?

posted by agropyron 13 August | 14:37

Putting DirectoryIndex path-to-file in your .htaccess file in the root directory will cause Apache to use path-to-file when someone goes to URL without a filename at the end.

posted by cmonkey 13 August | 14:41

Or, if you're using IIS, click on the "Documents" tab and set the home document.

posted by matildaben 13 August | 14:45

Yeah, Apache, agro.

Ok, cmonkey. Is that all the .htaccess file should have in it?

posted by chewatadistance 13 August | 15:16

Yep, if there's nothing else in it already.

posted by cmonkey 13 August | 15:30

coolness that worked. I thank ye kindly.

posted by chewatadistance 13 August | 15:59

Hi chewie. *whuffle*

posted by mike9322 13 August | 17:58

Hiya Mikesy!

posted by chewatadistance 13 August | 18:17

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