Newb query: index.htm & index.php & the server default

[Lab309]

The problem I'm trying to solve is as follows:
The website has two subdirectories: /ordinary and /phpstuff. Users
typing hostname/ordinary get the file index.htm by default, and this
works fine. Users typing hostname/phpstuff don't get anything because
there is no index.htm there, only index.php.
What can I put in an index.htm file that'll invoke the index.php file?
Or is there a setting in the Apache 2.0 server I've overlooked?

Win2000; Apache 2.0.43; php 4.3.3; MySQL 4.0.15
--jim

[Geoff Berrow]

I noticed that Message-ID:
<f2**************************@posting.google.com > from Lab309 contained the
following:

Users typing hostname/phpstuff don't get anything because
there is no index.htm there, only index.php.

index.php works just like index.htm

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[Arnoud Galactus Engelfriet]

In article <eu********************************@4ax.com>,
Geoff Berrow <[e-mail]> wrote:

I noticed that Message-ID:
<f2**************************@posting.google.co m> from Lab309 contained the
following:

Users typing hostname/phpstuff don't get anything because
there is no index.htm there, only index.php.

index.php works just like index.htm

Only if the server is configured that way. Sometimes you have
to manually add index.php to the list of default filenames.

Arnoud

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[Martin Lucas-Smith]

The problem I'm trying to solve is as follows: The website has two
subdirectories: /ordinary and /phpstuff. Users typing hostname/ordinary
get the file index.htm by default, and this works fine. Users typing
hostname/phpstuff don't get anything because there is no index.htm
there, only index.php. What can I put in an index.htm file that'll
invoke the index.php file? Or is there a setting in the Apache 2.0
server I've overlooked?

This is an Apache problem, not a PHP issue. You need to tell Apache to set
index.php as the default for that directory. The best thing to do would be
to put in your main .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.html

Alternatively, you could consider parsing all .html files for PHP, so that
you don't constantly have to switch between the two, and change filenames
[thereby breaking links] every time you decide to add PHP instructions to
an .html file:

AddType application/x-httpd-php .html

Martin Lucas-Smith www.geog.cam.ac.uk/~mvl22
www.lucas-smith.co.uk

[John Dunlop]

Martin Lucas-Smith wrote:

This is an Apache problem, not a PHP issue. You need to tell Apache to set
index.php as the default for that directory. The best thing to do would be
to put in your main .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.html

Apache would only search for index.html then -- as it presumably does
in every stock installation -- and not index.php. DirectoryIndex
accepts a (space separated) list of resources, thus you can make
Apache look for index.php by appending it to that list. The first
resource found is returned.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod...directoryindex

--
Jock

[Martin Lucas-Smith]

This is an Apache problem, not a PHP issue. You need to tell Apache to
set index.php as the default for that directory. The best thing to do
would be to put in your main .htaccess file:

DirectoryIndex index.html

Apache would only search for index.html then -- as it presumably does in
every stock installation -- and not index.php. DirectoryIndex accepts a
(space separated) list of resources, thus you can make Apache look for
index.php by appending it to that list. The first resource found is
returned.

Sorry, that was a typo - I did mean

DirectoryIndex index.html index.php

(This will use index.html if it finds that, if not, index.php, etc.)
Martin Lucas-Smith www.geog.cam.ac.uk/~mvl22
www.lucas-smith.co.uk

[Avdija A. Ahmedhodzic]

Lab309 wrote:

The problem I'm trying to solve is as follows:
The website has two subdirectories: /ordinary and /phpstuff. Users
typing hostname/ordinary get the file index.htm by default, and this
works fine. Users typing hostname/phpstuff don't get anything because
there is no index.htm there, only index.php.
What can I put in an index.htm file that'll invoke the index.php file?
Or is there a setting in the Apache 2.0 server I've overlooked?

you can create .htaccess file with: "DirectoryIndex index.php"

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[Lab309]

te*******@hotmail.com (Lab309) wrote in message news:<f2**************************@posting.google. com>...

The problem I'm trying to solve is as follows:
The website has two subdirectories: /ordinary and /phpstuff. Users
typing hostname/ordinary get the file index.htm by default, and this
works fine. Users typing hostname/phpstuff don't get anything because
there is no index.htm there, only index.php.
What can I put in an index.htm file that'll invoke the index.php file?
Or is there a setting in the Apache 2.0 server I've overlooked?

Win2000; Apache 2.0.43; php 4.3.3; MySQL 4.0.15
--jim

Thank you all. I'll modify the Apache file later today.
--jim