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Amp34 · 14 Sep 2011 at 21:48

Is there any way to force a browser to look at another page instead of one labelled index.***?

For example I want a page named "yes.html" as the equivalent of index.html so when typing

www.mysite.com/folder

instead of it automatically going to

www.mysite.com/folder/index.html

I want it to automatically go to

www.mysite.com/folder/yes.html

is there a way of doing this with .access for example? I am aware of just doing an instant redirect from index.html but was wondering if there was a cleaner way?

For a complete stab in the dark is there a way of masking the filename all together? So for example I type in www.mysite.com/folder/ and it just shows that in the address bar when showing the contents of www.mysite.com/folder/yes.html?

Unfortunately my google fu is weak with this one...

Thanks

tntcoder · 14 Sep 2011 at 22:00

Do you own the web server and have access to the configs? Both Apache and IIS can be configured to point to different index pages.

Amp34 · 14 Sep 2011 at 22:37

I don't no but not sure if I have access to them, I'll have a look at that then, but if you have any quick links I'd appreciate it.

3dcandy · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:06

one of many guides for apache

http://www.htpasswdgenerator.com/apache/htaccess.html

Amp34 · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:31

Thanks, much simpler than the other website I looked at!

So it's as simple as setting up a .htaccess file in www.mysite.com/folder and typing "DirectoryIndex yes.html"?

3dcandy · 14 Sep 2011 at 23:42

something like that yes. It's exceedingly powerful!

Rich43 · 15 Sep 2011 at 00:29

That will only work with the Apache Web Server, depends on what software server is using.

3dcandy · 15 Sep 2011 at 09:06

very true....I forgot about IIS