simple navigation question

[bruckerrlb]

Hi All,

 

I have a simple navigation question, how can I get my website to automatically go to the index.php page once the address is punched in, example www.example.com is entered into the browser, how can I automatically get it to go to www.example.com/index.php. My site has a javascript bug in it where it doesn't display properly if it just goes to the root without a site name. Any help would be much appreciated

 

Thanks

 

Rob

[paulman888888]

so this is an javascript error not a php.

 

Or you want php to goto index.php instead of site.com/

 

if so it is not a php solution its HTML or JAVASCRIPT

 

use this in your HEAD tags

 

<meta http-equiv="REFRESH" content="0;url=http://www.the-domain-you-want-to-redirect-to.com/index.php">

 

hope i helped

[rhodesa]

You can redirect it with lot's of methods: Apache's mod_rewrite, PHP header(), etc

 

But, I would recommend fixing the JavaScript instead. If you agree, post where the JS bug is, and ask a Moderator to move this to JavaScript

[ag3nt42]

are you sure this is a javascript bug.. or does your web server simply not have index.php listed in the default file list?

[bruckerrlb]

Thanks for all the responses. This is the company website, I had posted the javascript error in here a while ago and got some great feedback which helped me getting it functional. There is still a problem with the script, and I have no idea how to fix it, I'll post it in the javascript help again.

 

As for this error causing it to not find the index.php site first, that's not the problem, the problem is I need it to go to index.php in order for the page to display properly, I'm not exactly sure why, but I"d like to get it working until I can get the javascript debugged. The only access I have is ftp, can I change the config through a ftp interface?

 

Thanks again

[gigas10]

edit the httpd.conf file? assuming your on apache.

[DarkWater]

Create a .htaccess file for the folder and put:

 

DirectoryIndex index.php

[bruckerrlb]

thanks! and I just put the the htdocaccess file in the index, where all the other files are at?

[DarkWater]

Yes, name it ".htaccess".  With the . in front. =P

[bruckerrlb]

Thanks, I went ahead and did that, named it .htaccess and then put DirectoryIndex index.php but when I uploaded it to my server, I got a "Wrong configuration" message about how it was wrongly configured. Is there anything I have to declare in the htaccess file?

 

Thanks again

[jkewlo]

<?php
header("location: index.php");
?>

[Guest Xanza]

all of these methods will work... But I recommend using the .htaccess file... Then you won't have to dick with it in subdirectories.