default.htm to index.php

  • Resolved tronfrog

    (@tronfrog)


    19 years, 9 months ago

    First of all thanks to everyone who has helped me on this forumn… it is taking me a long time to install and get it running properly… but I’m getting there slowly. Everyone’s feedback here has been a big help.

    My biggest issue right now: my old website http://www.markallencam.com is still up. Using the same server, I want to start using WP in place of the plain html (Netscape Communicator-created) page that I have up and running there on the main page now (archiving all the old as a link on the new WP main page). I have installed WP successfully and you can see my trial run at http://www.markallencam.com/index.php (using the A Blog Beyond theme). I installed everything in the main directory for my site using Fetch (on a Mac here). I have been able to update entries as you see, using the WP dashboard (but I cannot seem to be able to change any theme specifics in the theme editor because, I believe, of the problem I am describing now).

    My site uses default.htm as it’s main site. I want it to go ahead and switch over and start using the index.php as the main page, obviously. But I cannot get it to do that. I have uploaded an .htaccess file into the main directory with all the correct info in it (a blank text file named ‘.htaccess’ that includes the line: DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php default.htm)… but it still is reading the default.htm file as the main page.

    How can I make it use the index.php page as the main page from now on? I think that is the cause of some other problems I have been having.

    Help!

    Mark

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  • yosemite

    (@yosemite)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    If I’m following you correctly, change
    DirectoryIndex index.html index.htm index.php default.htm

    to:
    DirectoryIndex index.php

    Thread Starter tronfrog

    (@tronfrog)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    Hmmm… just tried it. Did not work. Any other suggestions (or questions about my situation?)

    Thanks,
    Mark

    yosemite

    (@yosemite)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    Delete or rename default.htm? Wait for someone more experienced then me to come along?

    Seriously, I just can’t think of anything else right now 😛

    whooami

    (@whooami)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    you say you tried that? and it didnt work — I am guessing that it did, but your cache showed the old page.

    Do as sam suggests:

    1. delete the default.htm file
    2. edit your.htaccess to read DirectoryIndex index.php
    3. close your browser, open your browser to a site OTHER than your own, clear your cache, then load your site.
    4. If then you think it didnt work, leave everything just so, and repost here, so someone else can see

    Thread Starter tronfrog

    (@tronfrog)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    That worked!!!!!!! It was deleating the old default.htm file that I think was key, as well as the cache emptying… thanks so much Whooami and Sam…

    Cheers,
    Mark

    ps. I’m sure I’ll be back with more problems in a matter of hours.

    yosemite

    (@yosemite)

    19 years, 9 months ago

    I don’t know about whooami but I’ll be asleep ;’)

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