AvengeX Webmaster Development - Free PHP, MySQL, CSS, XHTML, Photoshop Tutorials

This handy little tutorial is useful when you don't want to use index.whatever for your main page.

Step 1: Open up .htaccess in your public_html folder

Step 2: Look for a line of text that saysDirectoryIndex

Step 3: After DirectoryIndex =, add your filename. It must be in the same directory.

Warning: A .htaccess file has a domino effect on all folders.

Example: http://yoursite.com's homepage will be home.html if you set DirectoryIndex to home, as well as all subfolders. http://yoursite.com/folder's homepage will also be home.html. Be careful!

To override this, add a blank copy of .htaccess into each subfolder.

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