htaccess help please

[jokerfool]

My host recently updated to php5 and I am having some issues on my site.

 

When a user visits a link e.g. blahabc.com/abc they're referred automatically to my default 404 page, thus the user now has to add the index.php extension after abc making it blahabc.com/abc/index.php

 

Now in my htaccess file is it possible to write something in there so when a user goes to blahabc.com/abc they're redirected to blahabc.com/abc/index.php?

 

Thank you.

[Daniel0]

You can put this in it:

ErrorDocument 404 /error/404.html

 

Change the path to whatever the path to your error document is of course.

 

See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/core.html#errordocument

[jokerfool]

If a user goes to the wrong path or even a path with just a folder .com/abc then at the moment they're redirected to my default 404 page which is fine.

 

What I wont to know is in the .htaccess file is there a command I can add so if a user goes to .com/abc then they're redirected automatically to .com/abc/index.php and not sent to the 404 page?

[jokerfool]

Can someone shed some light on this please?

[Daniel0]

As long as abc is a folder then it should do that already.

[jokerfool]

But it doesnt do that, even if I add:

 

 

<Files index.php> 
  forcetype application/x-httpd-php
</Files> 

 

To the htaccess file when the page loads it tries to download the index file too.

[Daniel0]

Could you post a link to your site so I can see?

[Stooney]

put this in a .htaccess file

 

Directory Index index.php

 

 

you can change that to be any filename you wish.

[jokerfool]

But if I want the user to go to domainname/software and want the contents of the software folder to load how do I do this in the htaccess file?

 

Do I add Directory Index software/index.php

 

Because since the host updated to php5 when i go to domainname/software I get redirected now to my default 404 page, which is not what I want. If I want to load the contents of the software folder I now have to type in domainname/software/index.php

 

I want to know if there is a shortcut I can place in the htaccess file so if a user does just go to domainname/software then it will load the contents because the htaccess file says something like " If user visits domainname/software* >> domainname/software/index.php

 

Possible?

[Stooney]

Directory Index index.php

 

put it here

 

domainname/software/.htaccess

 

Now when someone goes to http://domainname/software they will be shown index.php

 

At least that's how it should work.  You should'nt even need this as it's usually default.

[wildteen88]

Directory Index index.php

 

put it here

 

domainname/software/.htaccess

Directory Index needs to be one word:

DirectoryIndex index.php

 

However I would recommend you to have a word with your hosts about this though. Maybe they forgot to add index.php to the DirectoryIndex.