nuk3 — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 08:17:44 +0000

I'll just use the DirectoryIndex command, thanks anyway.

Suzanne — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 07:19:58 +0000

no, that's a different function, either the event handler or mime type (depending on what you want to do).

What are you wanting to do?

nuk3 — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 05:30:29 +0000

Thanks for you feedback!

Also, Is it possible just to type in extensions with the directory index command, i.e: .htm .html .shtml .php ?

Suzanne — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 02:05:49 +0000

I can answer that one, Mark. I have a script that I'm using from a third part that has the main page called photos.php. But it's in its own folder. I don't want to have to go in and figure out all the ways to fix the url in the script, so I just used a DirectoryIndex.

I also used it to fix a badly written site for a client without having to break all the urls, and more than once to make index.php work when I couldn't get the server admin to wake up and set index.php as a default page/extension in the httpd-conf file, and the site was showing the contents of a directory rather than the index.php file.

mairving — Thu, 06 Jun 2002 01:52:39 +0000

In an .htaccess file (assuming that your host in running apache), the
statement as Suzanne mentioned is:

<?php
DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php splash.html
?>

It looks for the first file listed, then the second if the first is not found, on down the list.

Of course, the big question is why not just rename your file from splash.html to index.html.

Suzanne — Wed, 05 Jun 2002 22:21:11 +0000

Yes, your host can set the page to be anything he pleases.

Or you can, with the DirectoryIndex command in your .htaccess file.