instead of index.html, why not something.html

**tricky_linux** · 10-03-2004, 03:58 PM

i been wondering about this issue for a long time long.
just never got to the point of asking anyone
i want to know how to make your website's frontpage automatically load something.html instead of index.html
so my site is at 404.bizhat.com
if u use it as the URL, it will direct you to 404.bizhat.com/index.html
so i am wondering if there anyway i could make it go to 404.bizhat.com/something.html?

**admin** · 10-03-2004, 07:05 PM

index.html as index page is standard followed by most web servers.

You can configure web server to treat somename.extension as the index page. But it will be better to follow the convention.

If you have a different name other than index.html you have to do one of the following

1) Configure the web server
2) For Apache, use .htaccess
3) Use Frame to load other page
4) Use Java Script Redirection
5) HTTP-EQUIV Redirection

Code:

<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0;URL=somepage.extension">
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

**madboyv1** · 10-03-2004, 07:53 PM

Originally Posted by admin

5) HTTP-EQUIV Redirection

Code:

<html>
<head>
<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" content="0;URL=somepage.extension">
</head>
<body>

</body>
</html>

to understand this code:

Code:

HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH"

this is basically telling your browser that this function will refresh the page.

Code:

content="0

This configures how long the browser will wait till it refreshes the page. 0 = 0 seconds, 5 = 5 seconds. This number MUST be an integer.

Code:

URL=somepage.extension

Simple enough, this is the page that is being redirected to when the current page is refershed by the browser.

a real life example is:

http://www.geocities.com/madboyv1

Code:

<META HTTP-EQUIV="REFRESH" CONTENT="5;URL=http://charreddirt.bizhat.com">

**tricky_linux** · 10-03-2004, 08:04 PM

thanx, i will look into that

**madboyv1** · 10-04-2004, 09:18 PM

Originally Posted by tricky_linux

thanx, i will look into that

no problem.

**Steven Foo** · 10-06-2004, 06:37 AM

the index.html is the industrial standard create by most companies...
so there is no choice... but to follow it.

**admin** · 10-06-2004, 07:07 AM

Yes, better to follow standards.

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