How to hide index.html files with slashes?

« on: February 21, 2008, 04:12:42 PM »

nihang

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Hi,

How to develop a site with no index.html files. For example, http://www.google.com/contact/, the URL points to some fixed file.

How can I develop such kind of pages?


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Re: How to hide index.html files with slashes?

« Reply #1 on: February 21, 2008, 08:40:29 PM »

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just name your file index.html and just don't include the index.html part when you link to that page. In other words,
http://www.google.com/contact/
and
http://www.google.com/contact/index.html
are one and the same.


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Re: How to hide index.html files with slashes?

« Reply #2 on: February 25, 2008, 08:47:40 PM »

five-of-eight Offline

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Well, I'm guessing that you mean when you go to www.mysite.com/ it redirects to www.mysite.com/somepage.htm

For that, you would need to add

Code:

Redirect http://yoursite.com/ http://yoursite.com/newpage.htm

into your .htaccess file


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Re: How to hide index.html files with slashes?

« Reply #3 on: February 27, 2008, 08:39:28 PM »

Collin1000 Offline

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Quote from: five-of-eight on February 25, 2008, 08:47:40 PM

Well, I'm guessing that you mean when you go to www.mysite.com/ it redirects to www.mysite.com/somepage.htm

For that, you would need to add

Code:

Redirect http://yoursite.com/ http://yoursite.com/newpage.htm

into your .htaccess file

Exactly. Remember, the default file for most web servers if there is no page directly typed in is index.html (in the old days, home.html worked as well)

It is possible to change it by making a .htaccess file in every directory with what you want the page to be, however that will only redirect them. It is best to name the home file just index.html -- they will still be able to go to the page.


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