.htaccess Problems

[TCH-JimE]

Hello,

 

Of all the things I know about htaccess, this is my most probalmatic one.

 

Basically, my domain when acccessed is www.**** which has the index.html file as its first file.

 

However, i want to change this to be say indexa.html

 

Now, i need to use .htaccess to do this, because I am working on an upgrade and hence i need the index.html page still to be present but accessible yet not the default page.

 

However, if I use DirectoryIndex indexa.html, all the folders below the main root change to this too. How can i set it for only the top folder?

 

Jimuni

[TCH-Andy]

Hi Jimuni,

 

Because the DirectoryIndex indexa.html is recursive, the only way I can see round it is to add DirectoryIndex index.html in all directories immediately below it.

[snipe]

DirectoryIndex allows multiple arguments - if it can't find the first one you specify, it looks for the second.

 

Making the .htaccess in the website root say:

 

>DirectoryIndex indexa.html index.html

 

Will tell it to FIRST look for a file called indexa.html, and then if it can't find one, look for index.html.

 

This should solve your problem as long as there are no indexa.html's in your subdirs.

[TCH-Andy]

Excellent point

[djgizmo]

snipe, thank your for helping me (indirectly) with the .htaccess "DirectoryIndex"

 

This works great as a internal redirector.

 

I needed www.**** to go to www.****/store/index.php

 

I used

>DirectoryIndex /store/index.php

 

This worked perfectly!

 

Hopes this helps others

[Deverill]

I'm glad it's working for you. Just wanted to throw in that when I do that kind of thing I just rename my stable file to index.html and work on indexa.html. I can go to the test version in the URL and it doesn't break anyone else coming to my site.

 

Just a though.