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:
<f24abf2c.0309201748.1c896624@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 <eumqmv4at7dfkfteiq107ojv91p52jd2vq@4ax.com>,
Geoff Berrow <bl@ckdog.co.uk.the.cat> wrote:

>I noticed that Message-ID:
><f24abf2c.0309201748.1c896624@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 [url]www.geog.cam.ac.uk/~mvl22[/url]
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[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.

[url]http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_dir.html#directoryindex[/url]

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[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 [url]www.geog.cam.ac.uk/~mvl22[/url]
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[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]

[email]terphenyl@hotmail.com[/email] (Lab309) wrote in message news:<f24abf2c.0309201748.1c896624@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