 How To: Change Your Website's Index File, a simple trick using .htaccess |
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 Oct 23 2006, 05:48 PM
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Advanced Member  Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 17-September 06 Member No.: 30,138  |
The only little problem is that all the index in your page will have another name
so if you have a forum it will cause some big problems. But is a good advice for thouse who wanted |
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Apr 5 2007, 11:07 PM
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Super Member Group: Members Posts: 326 Joined: 7-October 05 Member No.: 12,650 |
This is a very good tutorial. It is easy to read and easy to understand.
The only problem is that at the moment, I don't have the need to change my website's index file. However, there's bound to be other users out there who do want to change the website's start page. This tutorial will certainly help. If anyone ever asks me how to do it, I will refer them to this topic. Thanks for sharing 
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Apr 11 2007, 03:32 AM
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Premium Member Group: Members Posts: 150 Joined: 9-April 07 From: Nebraska Member No.: 41,301 |
Do you need to add a .htaccess file to every directory, or just the ones that you're changing from index, or does it change the index file for all your directories? If it did it for every directory in the directory, unless you told it otherwise, that'd be great!
I don't think I'll really use it that much, though. It's just easier for me to use index. Does it automatically accept index.php over index.html? I haven't checked that yet. 
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Apr 11 2007, 11:20 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Members Posts: 144 Joined: 22-March 07 Member No.: 40,472 |
wow nice one m8
i thin't know this something new for me 
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Apr 11 2007, 01:20 PM
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Super Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 299 Joined: 27-January 07 From: Winter is cold here. Member No.: 37,984  |
so if i use your code, can I make it in a different directory, like direc/index.php ? can You do that? I will try it. Thanks for finding this!
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Apr 11 2007, 03:00 PM
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Incest is a game the whole family can play.  Group: [MODERATOR] Posts: 1,223 Joined: 11-February 05 From: Heaven Member No.: 3,709 |
QUOTE(hippiman) Do you need to add a .htaccess file to every directory, or just the ones that you're changing from index, or does it change the index file for all your directories? If it did it for every directory in the directory, unless you told it otherwise, that'd be great! Unless separate .htaccess files are in the subdirectories with this code in, this will work for the directory the file is in and all subdirectories. QUOTE(hippiman) Does it automatically accept index.php over index.html? I haven't checked that yet I don't know but you can set it so the server looks for index pages in a different order: CODE DirectoryIndex index.php index.html Now the server looks for index.php to show as the default index page; if it can't find index.php, it looks for index.html, which it displays as the default index page. If neither are found, the 404 error page is shown. |
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Apr 11 2007, 10:32 PM
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Privileged Member Group: [HOSTED] Posts: 624 Joined: 13-December 06 Member No.: 35,271 |
Good tut, but I don't understand why you would eed to change it for.
Good work anyways. |
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Jul 5 2007, 09:43 PM
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Member [Level 2] Group: Members Posts: 79 Joined: 30-June 07 Member No.: 45,745 |
VERY nice! I was actually wondering how to change my current index file on my new website... I've always used CMS's in building my websites... this time I want to try something different, so this tutorial is definitely helpful since I actually didn't know how to do it... thanks again buddy, keep it up
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Jul 10 2007, 10:52 PM
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Newbie [Level 1] Group: Members Posts: 11 Joined: 10-July 07 Member No.: 46,284 |
could I possibly set it up to go to another directories index page?? say for instance I have a forum but I haven't coded the "main" site yet so I went and installed the forum in a directory called /forum
could I have it do CODE DirectoryIndex forum/index.php
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