index.html / index.shtml

Can someone tell me if there is a way to make index.shtml load automatically, rather than index.html?? if your wondering why im asking, or just need to see what i'm talking about, click here Thanks for any help ya have :D

www.wallus.f2s.com: Aliases: www.wallus.f2s.com. IP(s): 194.106.33.56. Server type: Apache/1.3.19 HTTP/1.0

Since you are apache, im going to guess it's unix. eh...anyway.

what you need to do is ask the webserver administrator to change what file is the default file loaded in httpd.conf.

Yes, only the webserver administrator can do it.

Or you can set up and index.html page with a javascript that automatically forwards the browser to index.shtml with no delay times, but since you are on f2s and it's slow slower than hell, it could take a good day and a half to load.

Too bad you're not running under IIS 5.0. (That's Microsoft for you haters, heehee). It's as simple as changing the site options to load index.shtml. You can set it to load as many different start pages as you want in the options. Currently, I have most of the sites we host to automatically load either "default.htm or index.htm", but if felt the need to, you could simply change those or even just add-in "index.shtml".

apache works the exact same way mattboy. The only difference is you get to edit the file with a text editor. It's not a dll file. it's not an ini file.

It's just too bad you have to actually edit the file. With IIS it's right there in the options.

I always have an .htacces file on f2s, so you can use ssi includes in .html/.htm files.

Good Christian - what is that (not ssi, but .htacces), and how would i go about doing that

.htaccess is a part of Basic HTTP Authentication. It allows you to simply password protect a directory in your web folder.

It's not as secure as some other methods, but for small, non-mission critical websites, that's ok.

It works in conjunction with a .htpasswd file and a .htgroup file ( this one is optional ) to allow anyone who's name is in the .htpasswd file to enter the directory as long as the correct password is given. It usese md5 to make the password. ( if you don't know what this is, search for md5 in any search engine. google works best. )

It's just too bad you have to actually edit the file. With IIS it's right there in the options

It's also just too bad that IIS is the most exploitable webserving application on the internet. One day you will realize that there are things that are better than Microsoft. IIS is ****. Plain and simple.

Take it from someone who has used Apache for Unix, Apache for Win32, IIS 4/5 and Netscape Enterprise Server for Novell..

A .htaccess file can do lots more than just HTTP Basic Authentication. In fact it can do exactly what you want, load index.shtml instead of index.html as the default. Create and upload a file called .htaccess to your web site's www root with the following in it:

DirectoryIndex index.shtml