How To: Change Your Website's Index File

How To: Change Your Website's Index File
a simple trick using the .htaccess file

A simple tutorial which only involves editing one little file. Useful for those of us who have mime-typed extensions or who are creating lots of test design files and want an easy way to make the design they like best their default file.

1. Create a file called .htaccess in the /public_html/ folder if you don't have it. I think one should be there already when you get your site so if it isn't you should create it anyway!
2. In the file write the following:
   
   
   CODE
   DirectoryIndex best_design.weirdext
   
   
3. Replace best_design.weirdext with the file you want your index page to be.
4. Open your website and if all has worked well, you should have your customized index page.

All agreed it's a lot simpler than the mouseover tutorial a did . Any questions/comments regarding this tutorial

Cool. I didn't know you could do that... I thought it was just the way it was... index.html forever and for always. lol! Thanks for the tutorial, I think I'll use it since index.html lacks a sort of beauty.

where did you find this?
do you have some more tutorials like this one?

thank you

Lol index.adamrules =D. Thanks for this tutorial. Me too never knew you could do this. anywho thanks for posting it =D

Hey dude that was really great of you by sharing this wonderful Tip. This will be really very useful to all of us.

Hey thats a good one.

If you could help me out on one thing in .htaccess .
Do you know what does IgnoreIndex means.
I read it somewhere and I think so it could be used for this as well.

If you do let me know.
Thanks and have a good day

Although if you go playing around more you can seriously impair visitors access to your site. I suggest you create a backup of the one you already have (if any), then create a new one, then slowly intergate the old one back into the new one after research of each part.

Hey thanks! I didnt know you could actually do that...

lol even the mods didnt know about this lol

Oh yes we did. Just had to find it.
Hope it does what you want it to.