cmatcmextra
Aug 2 2005, 04:57 PM
How To: Change Your Website's Index Filea simple trick using the .htaccess fileA 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. - 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!
- In the file write the following:
CODE DirectoryIndex best_design.weirdext
- Replace best_design.weirdext with the file you want your index page to be.
- 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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Adamrosso
Aug 8 2005, 09:23 AM
Lol index.adamrules =D. Thanks for this tutorial. Me too never knew you could do this. anywho thanks for posting it =D
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delivi
Aug 14 2006, 08:11 PM
Hey dude that was really great of you by sharing this wonderful Tip. This will be really very useful to all of us.
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electron
Aug 18 2006, 03:25 AM
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
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tuddy
Aug 18 2006, 05:14 AM
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.
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Dooga
Aug 18 2006, 12:22 PM
Hey thanks! I didnt know you could actually do that...
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HMN
Oct 23 2006, 03:58 PM
lol even the mods didnt know about this lol
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jlhaslip
Oct 23 2006, 04:42 PM
Oh yes we did. Just had to find it. Hope it does what you want it to.
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gameratheart
Sep 28 2008, 02:01 AM
Wow this is pretty useful! I don't know about you guys, but many of the websites I own use Forum, Wiki or similar software, or rely heavily on scripting; and sometimes I have to it all in a subdirectory despite the fact I have no other use for the main directory, because a file interferes with another's operation, or just to keep it structured. So I just write my own index.html page and make it redirect to the real page. This tutorial, however, is a much better method. It's so much simpler and much more friendlier to search engines. Thanks, electriic ink!
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innosia
Sep 27 2008, 08:36 PM
wow this is good My method previously is using javascript to redirect the main file for example index.php to another file like home.php, but I happen to worry about how search engine will treat my site later on, so I decide not to do it after a while. Your htaccess technique is a good implement it since the search engine will come to this site instead. Good!
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Nabb
Sep 27 2008, 01:40 PM
Use the other file manager? xD
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-Sky-
Sep 27 2008, 01:23 PM
Thank you for this. But I cannot find .htaccess or any hidden files because I clicked automatically go to the File Manage, on v3. How do I get all the hidden files to be displayed?
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Deviatore
Sep 27 2008, 12:20 PM
thanks for the tutorial. i mistakenly didnt rename my homepage to index and then it started me irritating. i couldnt go back and fix all the links cos my website was a very big once containing more than 100 pages. so i had to make a new page having only "ENTER SITE" to be used as my homepage
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