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What is the default web page for my site?

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There are default pages for your site, here they are in order:

index.html
index.htm
index.shtml
index.php
index.php4
index.php3
index.phtml
index.cgi
index.asp
default.asp
index.mv
default.htm
index.pl
index.py
index.cf

However, you may change these default settings if you edit the /etc/httpd/conf/httpd.conf file in this section:

#
# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index.  Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.shtml index.php ...
</IfModule>

Once you have done this and saved your httpd.conf file you must restart Apache. You can run the SSH command:

/etc/rc.d/init.d/apachectl restart

Here are the settings if your account was setup before July 1st, 2003:

There are 2 defaults for your site, here they are in order:

index.html
index.htm

However, you may change these default settings if you edit the /www/conf/httpd.conf file in this section:

#
# DirectoryIndex: Name of the file or files to use as a pre-written HTML
# directory index.  Separate multiple entries with spaces.
#
<IfModule mod_dir.c>
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm
</IfModule>

All you need to do is add your filename to the DirectoryIndex line like below:

DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm

Once you have done this and saved your httpd.conf file you must restart Apache. You can run the SSH command:

/www/bin/apachectl restart

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