Cal
(@themesbycal)
Okay, I’d like to help but could you elaborate…
1. What do you mean by menu page?
2. What do you mean by simple url?
thanks
how do i say this differently. the “menu” page is not a part of wordpress. it is a static html page on my site. it is the page you go to when you dial up domain.com
i have it there because i don’t want a blog page, complete with sidebars, etc., as the opener. the menu page is a “splash” page. there is a link to my wp blog on this page. is this better?
a non simple url shows path and file name = domain.com/blog/index.php
wordpress.org has a simple url, you only begin to see paths when you dip into site.
research on the forum suggests that mod-rewrite, in addition to making permalinks possible also is needed to accomplish what i am looking for. i haven’t used mod-rewrite as of yet, it just sits there doing its thing.
i don’t know if mod-rewrite addresses my issue.
ok, someone knowledgeable of this at my isp – maybe – has responded, though he makes no mention of mod-rewrite here.
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In order to accomplish what you are requesting, you will need to change the document root of your domain to point to /home/blog/public_html/home/ and add the menu_1.htm as an allowed index file in the httpd.conf file or you can create a .htaccess file under the domain to allow domain indexing of this. Would you like me to add menu_1.htm in your httpd.conf file?
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this is a level or two up on my server side knowledge and i don’t know if it is best practice. anyone?
do not mean to bump. any experience here?
i will instruct my isp to allow a custom index file and see what happens…
i won’t mess with the htaccess suggestion as i still have updating permalink issues because i can’t update my htaccess though everything seems to be working.
after weeks of research on htaccess, mod-rewrite, server configuration, talking to my isp who taught me how to move files via ssh, and nothing working, it came down to this…
note: my home page = menu1.htm
1) asked isp to make menu1.htm a default file.
2) opened dreamweaver and on the local site i moved “menu1.htm” out of “home” and placed it where default “index.html” sits. dreamweaver asked if i wanted to update links and i said yes.
3) uploaded “menu1.htm” to server. i changed “index.html” to “index-old.html”
that’s it. took about ten minutes.
also this process taught me to validate this page.
