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Matt Rowles
Matt Rowles

Reputation: 8050

Make index.html default, but allow index.php to be visited if typed in

I have the following line in my .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

Everytime I go to index.php it takes me to index.html. Is it possible to allow for both, but leave index.html the default for users visiting www.domain.com?

Upvotes: 62

Views: 184212

Answers (6)

Jodyshop
Jodyshop

Reputation: 664

Hi,

Well, I have tried the methods mentioned above! it's working yes, but not exactly the way I wanted. I wanted to redirect the default page extension to the main domain with our further action.

Here how I do that...

# Accesible Index Page
<IfModule dir_module>
 DirectoryIndex index.php index.html
 RewriteCond %{THE_REQUEST} ^[A-Z]{3,9}\ /index\.(html|htm|php|php3|php5|shtml|phtml) [NC]
 RewriteRule ^index\.html|htm|php|php3|php5|shtml|phtml$ / [R=301,L]
</IfModule>

The above code simply captures any index.* and redirect it to the main domain.

Thank you

Upvotes: 2

Amit Verma
Amit Verma

Reputation: 41219

I agree with @TheAlpha's accepted answer, Apache reads the DirectoryIndex target files from left to right , if the first file exists ,apche serves it and if it doesnt then the next file is served as an index for the directory. So if you have the following Directive :

DirectoryIndex file1.html file2.html

Apache will serve /file.html as index ,You will need to change the order of files if you want to set /file2.html as index 

DirectoryIndex file2.html file1.html

You can also set index file using a RewriteRule 

RewriteEngine on

RewriteRule ^$ /index.html [L]

RewriteRule above will rewrite your homepage to /index.html the rewriting happens internally so http://example.com/ would show you the contents ofindex.html .

Upvotes: 6

xgqfrms
xgqfrms

Reputation: 12176

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm default.htm index.php index.php3 index.phtml index.php5 index.shtml mwindex.phtml

it doesn't has any means? you may be just need to add like this!

<IfModule dir_module>
    DirectoryIndex index.php index.html index.htm
</IfModule>

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Upvotes: 5

Natacha Beaugeais
Natacha Beaugeais

Reputation: 1053

If you're using WordPress, there is now a filter hook to resolve this:

remove_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_canonical');

(Put this in your theme's functions.php)

This tells WordPress to not redirect index.php back to the root page, but to sit where it is. That way, index.html can be assigned to be the default page in .htaccess and can work alongside index.php.

Upvotes: 20

user1249679
user1249679

Reputation: 

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.html$ $1.php%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Put these two lines at the top of your .htaccess file. It will show .html in the URL for your .php pages.

RewriteEngine on
RewriteRule ^(.*)\.php$ $1.html%{QUERY_STRING} [L]

Use this for showing .php in URL for your .html pages.

Upvotes: 1

The Alpha
The Alpha

Reputation: 146191

By default, the DirectoryIndex is set to:

DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm default.htm index.php index.php3 index.phtml index.php5 index.shtml mwindex.phtml

Apache will look for each of the above files, in order, and serve the first one it finds when a visitor requests just a directory. If the webserver finds no files in the current directory that match names in the DirectoryIndex directive, then a directory listing will be displayed to the browser, showing all files in the current directory.

The order should be DirectoryIndex index.html index.php // default is index.html

Reference: Here.

Upvotes: 94

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