electriic ink

Aug 2 2005, 04:57 PM

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

 

 

 

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s2city

Aug 2 2005, 09:48 PM

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.

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JimiHex

Aug 2 2005, 10:05 PM

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

thank you

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shomazta

Jul 10 2007, 10:52 PM

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

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DirectoryIndex forum/index.php

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Striker9099

Jul 5 2007, 09:43 PM

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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Forbez

Apr 11 2007, 10:32 PM

Good tut, but I don't understand why you would eed to change it for.
Good work anyways.

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electriic ink

Apr 11 2007, 03:00 PM

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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Imtay22

Apr 11 2007, 01:20 PM

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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